Education briefs 5-27-18
Mental health training
The Westmoreland Intermediate Unit will offer mental health first aid training June 26 at its offices in Greensburg as part of a national initiative to increase mental health literacy. An 8-hour training course will give participants the tools to identify when someone might be struggling with a mental health or substance-use problem and to connect them with appropriate support and resources. For more information or to participate, visit online at https://tinyurl.com/YMHFA-WIU or contact WIU Youth Mental Health First Aid Trainer Marissa Rega at mrega@wiu.k12.pa.us or 724-836-2460 ext. 2320.
Chancellor selected
The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education announced Monday that Daniel Greenstein, a director at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has been chosen as the new chancellor of Pennsylvania’s 14 state universities, including California University of Pennsylvania, and will assume leadership of the system Sept. 4.
Greenstein has worked with the Gates Foundation for the past six years and was previously a top administrator in the University of California system. He succeeds Frank Brogan, who has been nominated to be assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education at the U.S. Department of Education.
Greenstein hold bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate in social studies from Oxford University. His salary will be $380,000.
The state system enrolls more than 100,000 students and includes Bloomsburg, California, Cheyney, Clarion, East Stroudsburg, Edinboro, Indiana, Kutztown, Lock Haven, Mansfield, Millersville, Shippensburg, Slippery Rock, and West Chester universities.