January 29, 2018
Shippensburg University student Samantha Lowman attends The Harrisburg Internship Semester (THIS)
Contact: Kevin Hensil, khensil@passhe.edu
Harrisburg – Samantha Lowman of Orrtanna is working in the office of Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Dave Reed, R-Indiana, as part of a 15-week internship sponsored by Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education.
Lowman is a senior political science major at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.
She is one of eight 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 State System universities to participate.
Lowman is the daughter of Eddie and Karla Lowman. 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.