Penny Lipscomb, a native of Morgantown, will work as the new program coordinator for the WVU Veterans Resource Center. Lipscomb will implement and coordinate academic support programming for the Center and teach courses designed to assist veterans and their families in their transition from military life to college life.
Lipscomb joined the U. S. Army Reserves while still in high school and concurrently served in the military and as an Army spouse for a total of 23 years. She will call upon this service, along with her background in education and her life-experiences, to foster success for WVU’s student veterans and deliver a variety of serves in the newly expanded Center.
A long-time advocate for service members, veterans, and their families, Lipscomb built and managed multiple Family Readiness Groups throughout her career. These FRGs disseminated information to hundreds of spouses and families during their loved ones’ deployments. Lipscomb conducted meetings, wrote and distributed newsletters, led fund raisers, organized welcome home events and called each family to provide return flight information for their soldier. After deployments, she often drove to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland to visit with injured soldiers.
Lipscomb has been employed at WVU since 2014 as a lead academic advisor, instructor, and program coordinator for the Center for Learning, Advising and Student Success. She has a BA in Elementary Education from Fairmont State University and a MS in Adult and Continuing Education as well as a graduate certificate in academic advising, both from Kansas State University.