The Company We Keep - IUP Magazine

Actor Blair Underwood visited IUP in recognition the campus’s observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Judy Shepard, mother of hate crime victim Matthew Shepard, addressed students as part of the Six O’Clock Series in February.
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performed on campus, with guest narration by actor Danny Glover.
The Ideas and Issues lecture series presented A Conversation About African Americans in the U.S. Labor Movement with Danny Glover and Felix Justice.
Through the Six O’Clock Series, Donald Asher, author of From College to Career and The Foolproof Job Search Workbook, presented a workshop called "Cracking the Hidden Job Market: How to Beat Thousand-to-One Odds to Land Your Dream Job."
Seussical the Musical, Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal, Three Dog Night, and Fame came to campus as part of Onstage, the entertainment series.
Juan Williams, journalist, historian, and authority on American civil rights history, was keynote speaker at the twenty-seventh Annual Conference on Black History in Pennsylvania, hosted by IUP in April. The event is sponsored at sites around the commonwealth by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Sally Stroup ’78, assistant secretary of post-secondary education in the U.S. Department of Education, served as the university’s featured speaker at May commencement ceremonies. She also received a Distinguished Alumni Award during her visit to campus in May.