Seven Admissions Office colleagues traveled this past week to Sojourner Truth Ministries Inc., a nonprofit organization tackling homelessness and hunger prevention in Lycoming County. The outreach was inspired by an April visit to the college's electrical labs, where staff learned that students had completed electrical work in a newly acquired house and in the agency's main building.
Admissions counselor Joey A Worth Jr. stands ready to greet visitors to Booth #4620 in the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex. Reuniting at the college's display area are Tyler W. Dunn (left), a 2018 graduate of the college's heavy construction equipment technology: operator emphasis major, and Justin W. Beishline, assistant dean of diesel technology and natural resources.
In a room warmly enhanced by Wildcat blue uplighting, admissions counselor Michele R. Alexander addresses a full house from the Klump Academic Center Auditorium stage. Presidential Student Ambassador Eryn L. Nichols is among the friendly faces welcoming potential students and their families to campus.
Before starting her final semester this past week, Lauryn A. Stauffer returned to Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School while on holiday break as part of the "Rep Penn College" program coordinated by the Admissions Office. Under the initiative, begun during the 2021-22 academic year, students are provided training and supplies to take on the road for potential recruitment of future Wildcats.
As the commonwealth celebrates anew the breadth of its agriculture heritage, representatives of Pennsylvania College of Technology will again be on hand to epitomize those who have helped the industry thrive for centuries. Students and employees will represent the college at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg from Jan.
The Student & Administrative Services Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology will soon bear the name of retiring President Davie Jane Gilmour. The college’s Board of Directors convened a special meeting to approve the action at a gala event honoring Gilmour’s 24-year presidency. The board also granted emeritus status to Gilmour, who retires June 30.
Ready to see what hands-on learning is all about? Here's a teasing glimpse of the action that's set to unfold in the Pennsylvania College of Technology episode of The College Tour, produced nationally and streaming on Amazon Prime when Season Five drops in August.
More than 400 prospective students and their guests attended Wednesday's first Open House of the summer season, which featured weather as warm as the welcome they received from accommodating faculty and staff. Attendees got an informative "sneak peek" at what awaits Penn College's Tomorrow Makers, including tours of instructional space and various aspects of student life.
A building construction technology student is Pennsylvania College of Technology's first graduate in its alliance with The Brook J. Lenfest Foundation Inc., which funded a $1.8 million scholarship program for underserved populations from the commonwealth's southeastern neighborhoods. The distinction belongs to Isaiah S.
Penn College welcomed 59 future Wildcats and their families to Accepted Student Day on Sunday – emphasis on the "sun" – as gorgeous walking-around weather helped guests celebrate "the beginning of something amazing." The day's VIPs checked in at the Field House, then explored campus, made new friends and found an ever-helpful assortment of students and employees.
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