The Pennsylvania College of Technology Board of Directors has approved a $55.8 million operating budget and established tuition rates and related fees for the 2001-02 academic year. The $55,820,242 operating budget represents a 6.6-percent increase over 2000-01.
Six corporate supporters have made donations or pledges to help Pennsylvania College of Technology upgrade the equipment used in its Plastics and Polymer Technology laboratories. The contributions, along with a state matching grant, will provide more than $16,000 worth of equipment.
Sixteen Pennsylvania College of Technology students were presented with "Penn College Awards" recently for their outstanding contributions in the areas of campus involvement, leadership and service to the College and/or community. Penn College Award recipients are nominated by faculty, staff or fellow students. A selection committee consisting of student leaders then selects the winners.
Susquehanna Health System and Pennsylvania College of Technology have announced a partnership that will help student nurses pay college expenses in exchange for a commitment of employment at the Health System's area hospitals after graduation. The health system will commit up to $100,000 in 2001-02 to initiate this new forgiveness-award joint program.
Practicing sonographers can earn a Diagnostic Medical Sonography (Ultrasound) Competency Credential, work toward a bachelor's degree, or receive noncredit instruction in this rapidly expanding career field through an initiative being offered this fall at Pennsylvania College of Technology.
Dr. Dennis R. Williams, associate professor of business administration at Pennsylvania College of Technology, has been named a Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellow for the Students in Free Enterprise team at the College.
Alumni of the Williamsport Technical Institute, a forerunner of Pennsylvania College of Technology from 1941-65, will return to the College on June 19 for a day of reminiscing, renewing friendships and observing the many changes that have taken place on the Williamsport campus. Among the activities to be featured at the W.T.I.
A workshop that will help secondary-school science teachers in Pennsylvania meet the pending state Department of Education requirements for environment and ecology education will be offered July 23-27 at Pennsylvania College of Technology's Earth Science Center near Allenwood.
Pennsylvania College of Technology recently hosted an alumni reception at Larson Design Group, a Lycoming County business that counts among its 156 employees some 56 people who are alumni of Penn College or its predecessor institutions: Williamsport Area Community College and Williamsport Technical Institute.
Two students in the Plastics and Polymer Engineering Technology program at Pennsylvania College of Technology won an award for a research paper and received a scholarship at the Society of Plastics Engineers' Annual Technical Conference 2000, held May 7-11 in Orlando, Fla. A paper written by Desiree A.
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