Move-in day at Penn State Behrend begins a full week of programming, including academic convocation, the formal start of the academic year. Classes began Aug. 22.
“If I can take a box of stuff up to their room for them and talk to them for a few minutes and make them a little more comfortable about being here, why wouldn’t I do that?” asked Josiah Burkett, at right.
More than 100 Welcome Week leaders and resident assistants helped carry boxes, clothes and totes to new students’ rooms. “It shows them what Behrend is all about,” said Farran Parker, a resident assistant.
