A team of peer evaluators sent by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools will visit Pennsylvania College of Technology on March 3-6 as the culmination of a re-accreditation process. The voluntary, self-regulatory peer-review process takes place every 10 years. Penn College was last accredited by Middle States in 1992.
Six people who completed a new Call Center/Customer Service Training program were honored during ceremonies held Feb. 22 at Pennsylvania College of Technology's North Campus near Wellsboro. Staff from the North Campus and Penn College's Technology Transfer Center developed the 186-hour noncredit training program at the request of several area employers.
Pennsylvania College of Technology student Matthew A. Greger was named "National Communications Coordinator of the Year" recently at the Central Atlantic Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls regional conference at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland.
Pennsylvania College of Technology will construct student housing, renovate the former HON Industries facility to accommodate space-restricted programs and refurbish the 89-year-old Klump Academic Center as part of a building program approved Thursday by the College's Board of Directors.
Pennsylvania College of Technology and the Penn College Education Association have come to terms on a two-year extension for their current labor agreement through 2004-05. The Penn College Board of Directors approved the extension Thursday. The PCEA, which includes full-time teaching faculty, librarians and counselors employed by the College, approved the extension on Feb. 5.
Twenty students from Pennsylvania College of Technology will compete for statewide honors at the Pennsylvania SkillsUSA-VICA Conference, to be held April 17-19 in Altoona. Twelve of the students registered first-place finishes at the SkillsUSA-VICA District 6 Skills Competition, held Feb. 15 at Penn College.
After only its first meet, the Pennsylvania College of Technology archery team has a state champion. Junior Rachel Probst, a graduate of Bald Eagle Area High School in Wingate, captured the Women's Compound Division title during the Pennsylvania Indoor Championships. Competing in the same division, freshmen Sarah Douglas (West Perry) was second and Beth Robinson (Williamsport) third.
"Diving in the Red Sea," a travelogue featuring the adventures of faculty member Linda M. Barnes, will be presented Thursday, March 7, at the Pennsylvania College of Technology Library. Barnes, an associate professor of occupational therapy assistant in the School of Health Sciences at Penn College, will present a slide show and discussion of her scuba-diving trip to the Red Sea.
Travis Dale, executive chef of the Sand Creek Country Club in Chesterton, Ind., and a gold-medal-winning ice sculptor who helped to create ice-carving displays for the Winter Olympics, will showcase his talents at Pennsylvania College of Technology on March 16-17 for the Visiting Chef Series dinner and the College's Open House 2002 event.
One day in 1999, automotive technician Robert W. Stepanovich was surfing the Internet for colleges that offered degrees in the automotive career field, when he came upon the home page for Pennsylvania College of Technology and its School of Transportation Technology.
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