February 01, 2017
East Stroudsburg University student Halle Frisco attends The Harrisburg Internship Semester (THIS)
Contact: Kevin Hensil, khensil@passhe.edu
Harrisburg – Halle Frisco of Mechanicsburg is working in the state historic preservation office
of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission as part of a 15-week internship
sponsored by Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education.
Frisco is a junior English major with a minor in communications and a concentration
in professional and media writing at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania.
She is one of 11 students participating in The Harrisburg Internship Semester (THIS)
program, which provides students the opportunity to work in all areas of state government
while earning a full semester’s worth of credits. THIS invites students from each
of the 14 State System universities to participate.
Frisco is the daughter of Pamela and Rodney Frisco and a 2014 graduate of Central
Dauphin High School. She and the other students participating in the program also
will attend several academic seminars during their spring semester internship. Each
of the students will complete an individualized research project as part of the program’s
requirements.
More than 600 students from the State System universities have participated in THIS
since the program began in 1989, each gaining valuable insight into the workings of
state government at the policy-making level. Interns have worked with dozens of state
agencies, as well as in the offices of the governor, the speaker of the House of Representatives
and the attorney general.
State System students interested in participating in THIS in a future semester may
obtain information on the program by contacting their individual campus coordinator
or their university’s cooperative or internship office, or by calling the Dixon University
Center at (717) 720-4089. More information on the program also is available at: www.passhe.edu/this.
Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education is the largest provider of higher
education in the Commonwealth, with more than 100,000 degree-seeking students and
thousands more who are enrolled in certificate and other career-development programs.
Collectively, the 14 universities that comprise the State System offer more than 2,300
degree and certificate programs in more than 530 academic areas. Nearly 520,000 State
System university alumni live in Pennsylvania.
The State System universities are Bloomsburg, California, Cheyney, Clarion, East Stroudsburg,
Edinboro, Indiana, Kutztown, Lock Haven, Mansfield, Millersville, Shippensburg, Slippery
Rock and West Chester Universities of Pennsylvania. The universities also operate
branch campuses in Oil City (Clarion), Freeport and Punxsutawney (IUP), and Clearfield
(Lock Haven), and offer classes and programs at several regional centers, including
the Dixon University Center in Harrisburg and in Center City in Philadelphia.