Hundreds of dual-enrolled students get taste of on-campus life
Monday, February 24, 2025
Photos by Jennifer A. Cline, writer/magazine editor
Penn College hosted more than 350 students on campus during the semester’s first two Dual Enrollment Student Visit Days. The students – who are taking Penn College classes at their high school or career and technical education center – got a look at the labs where their on-campus counterparts study.
“I love this place already,” said a York County School of Technology student touring the college’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning labs. The group, like many others, also got to meet the Penn College faculty liaison for the class they are taking.
The visiting groups also attended an admissions presentation and a panel discussion featuring representatives from Student Engagement, Athletics, the Center for Career Design and Residence Life, as well as optional campus tours.
Penn College Dual Enrollment classes are offered for free to qualified students at more than 70 Pennsylvania high schools and career and technical education centers. The program is administered by the college’s Secondary Partnerships staff. The next Dual Enrollment Visit Day is scheduled April 25 at the Earth Science Center.
Students from Adams County Technical Institute tour the college’s building construction facilities, including the Construction Masonry Building, where Joe F. DiBucci (left), instructor of building construction technology/concrete and masonry, shares opportunities and innovations in concrete.
Another Adams County group learns the major focuses of emergency management with William A. Schlosser (left) and David E. Bjorkman, instructors of emergency management and homeland security.
Students exploring emergency management and homeland security brainstorm what they would need to do to prepare for a major storm.
Brian D. Walton (background left), assistant dean of business and hospitality, leads a group from Bloomsburg Area High School through the college’s Baking & Culinary facilities, including Le Jeune Chef Restaurant’s busy kitchen.
Adams County Technical Institute students react as they feel a baby manikin inside of the nursing program’s birthing simulator manikin.
Nursing students’ obstetrics training includes hands-on practice with baby manikins – and this visitor found twins!
In electronics, Clark D. Sarge, instructor of electronics/automation & robotics, shows a Monroe Career & Technical Institute group a student project to monitor and control water pressure, level and flow.
Vii J. Rice, assistant professor of plastics technology, fields questions about plastics extrusion during a tour by Upper Dauphin Area High School students.
Tammy M. Rich, associate professor of business administration/management/event management, leads a creative session on anthropomorphism – leading small groups to follow the lead of companies like Kellogg’s (with characters like Tony the Tiger and Toucan Sam selling its cereals) to develop their own brand mascots. The session attracted students from East Juniata and Upper Dauphin Area high schools.
York County School of Technology students check out an evaporative cooling unit in one of the college’s HVAC labs.