With classes in full swing for the start of the 1999-2000 school year, Pennsylvania College of Technology continues to realize enrollment of historic heights. At the three-week mark in the fall semester, the traditional time for the official head count, 5,383 full- and part-time students are enrolled in credit classes at Penn College.
"Experience the world without a plane ticket" during Pennsylvania College of Technology's International Week (Sept. 13-19): Daily highlights will include: Monday, Sept. 13 Welcome! 11 a.m.-noon "Intercultural Communication" David London, associate professor in speech, communications and composition, moderates a panel discussion with international students.
Low-income parents will have greater access to postsecondary education under a $31,200 grant recently announced by Vice President Al Gore that will expand fee subsidies and add a toddler program to the Children's Learning Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology.
Dr. Edward (Ted) C. Nichols, assistant dean for Pennsylvania College of Technology's North Campus, has been nominated by the Combined Board of County Commissioners for Bradford, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga and Wyoming counties to serve on the regional Workforce Investment Board.
The first five graduates of Pennsylvania College of Technology's diesel technology/Mack emphasis major recently were honored by Mack Trucks, Inc. at its headquarters in Allentown. Penn College and Mack launched the diesel technology/Mack emphasis major in the fall of 1997.
A Pennsylvania College of Technology physician assistant student has been selected as the first recipient of a national scholarship from the Association of Physician Assistants in Oncology. Dan Gray, Danville, a senior in the College's B.S. degree physician assistant major, was presented $2,500 to be applied toward tuition, books or other expenses.
Pennsylvania College of Technology has been awarded $152,980 in state funding for continued operation of the combined New Choices/New Options program for the 1999-2000 academic year. A College match of $16,159 brings the total project funding to $169,138.
Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Transportation Technology will be honored as tops in the state during the Association for Career and Technical Education convention in Orlando, Fla., in December. Dean Colin W.
A new Field House will be dedicated Tuesday, Aug. 17, in a ceremony that will recognize the prowess of Pennsylvania College of Technology's athletic teams and the talents of its student designers and builders.
Reservations have been hard to come by for the Classical Cuisine dinners, served only once a week at Pennsylvania College of Technology's Le Jeune Chef Restaurant. The Thursday evening dinners, featuring multi-course European menus at a low, preset price, have sold out weeks or even months in advance for years.
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