Nearly 1,000 new and transfer students joined the Penn State Behrend community this week. They had help moving in: More than 100 Welcome Week leaders and resident assistants carried boxes, clothes and totes to the new students’ rooms.
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.
“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.
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.
Other Welcome Week programming at Penn State Behrend includes a carnival, a stand-up comic and a concert at the Behrend soccer complex.