Meet Rebecca Schreiber
Director of Admissions & Financial Aid
Hometown: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
What do you enjoy most about your role at Penn State Dickinson Law?
It is truly exciting and rewarding to witness law students become lawyers. I get to introduce them to Penn State Dickinson Law, support their access to a legal education, provide resources during their time as law students, and cheer them on at graduation and in their career successes. I am endlessly inspired by our students and graduates, and I am honored to be part of their experiences.
A Penn State Dickinson Law favorite:
The thing that stands out to me most is the genuine kindness of each member of our communities in both Carlisle and University Park. There is an atmosphere of camaraderie amongst students, faculty, and staff, which makes Penn State Dickinson Law a welcoming and supportive place to work and to learn.
Best piece of advice for anyone considering Penn State Dickinson Law:
Plan a visit to gain first-hand insight into the student experience at of each of our two locations! Each location features unique benefits, and we hope you will visit to understand these benefits for yourself. Whether in Carlisle or University Park, we offer a highly personalized legal education with access to the resources of a world-class research university.
Favorite thing to do in your spare time:
I believe if I have time to sit, I have time to knit and listen to an audiobook. I also enjoy doing the daily NYT crossword puzzle and keeping up with my German language study.
You’d never guess… :
I have lived in four different states and on two continents, and I have traveled to twenty-one countries.
Life before Penn State Dickinson Law:
My first experience working in a Financial Aid Office was as a Federal Work Study student at The College of Wooster. After graduating magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, I tried a number of careers: I worked in adult mental health in Maryland, supervised the teller line in the largest U.S.-based credit union branch in Germany, and owned a brick-and-mortar cloth diaper store in Colorado. I returned to Carlisle a little more than a decade ago to work in the Financial Aid Office at Dickinson College and found myself passionately engaged in access and affordability issues facing higher education — issues that inform my work and my writing to this day. Since joining Penn State Dickinson Law, I have earned a Master of Education in Higher Education through Penn State University.
Three words to describe yourself:
Creative, earnest, tenacious
Favorite quote:
“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly now. Love mercy now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.” — Paraphrase of Rabbi Rami Shapiro’s interpretive translation of Rabbi Tarfon’s commentary on Micah 6:8
Favorite book:
Anything written by Fredrik Backman — especially the Beartown trilogy
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