ESU Student Joins Conversation on Healthy Lifestyles and College Success, This Week’s Topic on Infinite Opportunities

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Posted by: Elizabeth Richardson on March 1, 2018, No Comments

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania student Zaria Cyriaque will talk about how being active and maintaining a healthy lifestyle helps lead to success in college on this week’s episode of Infinite Opportunities, which will air Sunday morning on the Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN).

Cyriaque, a senior hotel, restaurant, tourism and business management major—and a peer educator from Plainfield, N.J.—will be joined on the show by Kimberly Razzano Ph.D., associate professor and chair of health studies at East Stroudsburg; and Glorianne Dziuba, community health education program director at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania. The show also will include video visits to the campuses of Clarion, Slippery Rock and West Chester Universities of Pennsylvania.

Infinite Opportunities airs at 9:30 a.m. each Sunday on PCN. The half-hour, public affairs program features roundtable discussions with faculty, staff, students and alumni from the 14 State System universities talking about a range of higher education topics and issues. State System Interim Chancellor Karen M. Whitney moderates the weekly discussions. Each program also offers viewers the opportunity to “travel” back to the universities to learn more about all of the campuses.

This week’s roundtable discussion will focus on the benefits of being physically active and maintaining other healthy habits while in college. Cyriaque will talk about what it means to be a peer educator, and also will discuss the importance of seeking out opportunities to relieve stress to stay healthy and successful. Dr. Razzano will talk about some of the ways ESU helps students develop an active and healthy lifestyle, including through the radio show, “Healthy Warriors.” Dziuba will discuss ways Mansfield University helps students deal with mental health issues and the various opportunities available to students to learn about and engage in a healthy lifestyle while on campus.

Each weekly episode of Infinite Opportunities is reshown at 6 p.m. the following Saturday on PCN. This program will be rebroadcast on March 10. Prior episodes, including those from the first three seasons, also can be viewed at www.passhe.edu/InfiniteOpportunities.

Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education is the largest provider of higher education in the Commonwealth, enrolling more than 100,000 degree-seeking students and thousands more in certificate and other career-development programs. Collectively, the 14 universities that comprise the State System offer more than 2,300 degree and certificate programs in more than 530 academic areas. Nearly 520,000 State System university alumni live in Pennsylvania.

The State System universities are Bloomsburg, California, Cheyney, Clarion, East Stroudsburg, Edinboro, Indiana, Kutztown, Lock Haven, Mansfield, Millersville, Shippensburg, Slippery Rock and West Chester Universities of Pennsylvania. The universities also operate branch campuses in Oil City (Clarion), Freeport and Punxsutawney (IUP), and Clearfield (Lock Haven), and offer classes and programs at several regional centers, including the Dixon University Center in Harrisburg and in Center City in Philadelphia.