Media Mentions

On September 17, the Harrisburg Patriot-News featured the Serving and Living Together (SALT) program that allows students to live in downtown Harrisburg at the Harrisburg Institute while still taking their courses in Harrisburg. Student Karisa Martin said about her urban experience, “It’s one thing to sit in a classroom and learn about struggles and injustices. But here you can go out into the community and see them first hand or hear about them first hand. This program is Messiah’s footprint in the city. Hopefully we can bridge that gap.”

“Building a bridge: Messiah program brings people to Harrisburg” is not available online.

Craig Dalen, program manager of the College’s Harrisburg Institute, and Susan Hasseler, dean of the School of Education and Social Sciences and Community Engagement, consider the compelling research that mentoring programs for youth provide important connections to adults that can prevent a child from faltering or hanging out on the street. The two examine the benefits of mentoring in light of a recent rash of homicides in the city of Harrisburg in an August 2 Harrisburg Patriot-News op-ed.

Read “We can curb violence on city streets by providing mentors for our youth.”

In an interview with “Harrisburg” magazine (January issue), Mayor Stephen Reed comments on the city’s emergence as a “college town,” including mentioning Messiah’s recently-relocated Harrisburg Institute on the corner of Dewberry and Blackberry Streets. Messiah joins other midstate schools in making Harrisburg a center for higher education, a new chapter in Harrisburg’s evolution, the mayor said.