In November 2017, Steve Scully, Senior Executive Producer and Political Editor at C-SPAN, spoke on the Penn State Behrend campus. Scully, an Erie native has been nicknamed "The Most Patient Man on Television" on several segments on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. The event was sponsored by the Behrend Political Society.
The 2018 group of Penn State study abroad students on the first day of their political science course in Canada at the Toronto sign in front of City Hall.