Welcome to the Shippensburg University web site. Thank you for sharing your time with us and for finding out about the many wonderful opportunities available at Shippensburg.
 
As president, I have the chance to meet with many potential students and their parents and other family members, and I get to talk with them about the numerous and varied academic and personal successes by our students, about how our faculty members share their knowledge and insight with students, and that students are the heart and soul of the university.
 
Elsewhere on our web site, on billboards throughout the region and in various radio ads, you've seen and heard some of the successes by our students. The stories focus on such words as leadership, scholarship and internship by focusing on the students of whom we are so proud. I encourage you to periodically check our web site to see some of the many other students who we will feature and, perhaps, one day you, too, will be among the students.
 
This is an exciting time to be at Shippensburg. We are looking toward to the future with excitement as we continue to enhance our academic programming and our facilities, all designed to provide to students what they need to reach their dreams. Our just-completed master facilities plan includes major additions to Lehman Library, the Ceddia Union Building, and Huber Art Center. Plans also call for construction of all new residence halls beginning in the next several years that will provide new suite-type accommodations as well as the opportunity for living-learning centers in each hall. In three to 10 years, Shippensburg will be much different than it is today and more able to meet student needs.
 
As you navigate around our web site, you will see the many and varied facets that make Shippensburg a special place. You'll learn that we have national accreditations for many of our programs. You'll also learn that students learn and develop outside the classroom through numerous clubs and organizations and the chance to see internationally known speaker and performers in our H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center. We are proud to be able to provide to students and the region a diverse range of programs that has included actor/author LeVar Burton, comedian Jeff Dunham and many others.
 
I hope that after you take the virtual tour of campus that you'll visit us to experience first hand all that Shippensburg can offer. Please visit so you can be part of the Shippensburg experience.
 
Shippensburg is a fabulous place for your great future to start. Best wishes, and I hope to see you soon.
 
Sincerely,

William N. Ruud, Ph.D.
President
Shippensburg University
1871 Old Main Drive
Shippensburg, PA 17257
wnruud@ship.edu
717-477-1301