Dear Editor:
I have had the pleasure and privilege of educating students at the Clearfield campus since 2001. Throughout the years, I’ve told my students that I take my job pretty seriously.
You see, I teach anatomy and physiology to nursing, healthcare professions and health science students, and graduates of these programs at Lock Haven University become healthcare practitioners in our area.
They end up in the doctors’ offices and hospitals where I take my family when they need care. What I know is that when they graduate from LHU, they have received the best that we have to offer from the faculty and staff of the Clearfield campus.
Many of the students at the Clearfield campus are first-generation college students. Many of our students are non-traditional students who are juggling work and family, yet still make time to complete a degree. That’s because they know that higher education changes lives.
Did you know that since 1991, 1,500 nursing students have graduated from the program at the Clearfield campus, the majority of whom live and work in the area?
In fact, 90 percent of State System students come from Pennsylvania and 80 percent stay in Pennsylvania after graduation. Did you know that State System schools like Lock Haven University move more Pennsylvania residents from the bottom 60 percent of income levels to the top 40 percent? Higher education changes lives.
I have taught mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, siblings, husbands and wives. I’ve had students that I am now proud to call colleagues.
I have educated healthcare professionals who have been there for my family during dark times and it gave me comfort to know that they received a quality education and decided to stay in the area to serve their community.
The Clearfield campus is a legacy. It’s a place where families know that their loved ones will receive an excellent education full of promise and possibility, with faculty and staff who care about their success.
Once you are a part of the Clearfield campus of LHU you are part of a family because earning your degree at our campus provides you with a support team now and into the future.
Call our campus and speak to an admissions counselor. Ask to meet with our outstanding faculty and learn about our programs in business, criminal justice, physician assistant, nursing and now social work, or find out how you can begin your academic career here.
If you have a child in high school, look into our dual enrollment program. Higher education changes lives; let it change yours.
Dr. Amy Way
Dr. Amy Way is a professor of health science at Lock Haven University. For the past 19 years, she has taught anatomy and physiology, among other courses, to students at the Clearfield campus.