Faculty & Staff Articles

The Community Arts Center’s Board of Directors announced the resignation of Rob Steele, the center’s executive director. He leaves Aug. 1 to accept a new position in Florida, at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts. The board acknowledged the substantial contributions Steele has made to the Community Arts Center and to the local community.

Two Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty members shared their expertise with an international audience by presenting at the recent COMMON Annual Meeting and Exposition in Anaheim, California. Both Lisa R. Bock and Anita R.

The Pennsylvania College of Technology Board of Directors on Thursday approved the college’s budget and tuition rates for 2015-16, the Dining Services and Residence Life fees for the next academic year, “professor emeritus” status for a recently retired faculty member, and the Community Arts Center Board of Directors’ roster.

Paul “Babe” Mayer, who taught in Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Fitness and Lifetime Sports (now Exercise Science) Department for 25 years before his retirement in December, has been approved by the Penn College Board of Directors for “professor emeritus” status.

For the fifth consecutive year, two members of Penn College’s horticulture faculty shared their expertise during Pennsylvania FFA Convention/Activities Week in Centre County. Dennis P. Skinner, assistant professor, and instructor Carl J. Bower Jr.

A Pennsylvania College of Technology business faculty member recently presented research regarding minor-league baseball ticket sales at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Chip D.

Mallery engages the crowd. Runners, walkers and trotters – including Melanie A. Scaife, secretary to residence life at Rose Street Commons (in black at center right) – traverse Indian Park. Kimberly R. Cassel, director of student activities, helps set the pace, finishing 39th overall with a time of 28:37. Accenting the day's sunshine with her smile is Watson, a summer conference assistant.

Countdown to College Coach A national higher-education blogger, offering parents of college-bound teens a lifeline in the sea of options, has posted two more articles distilled from her late-April visit to Penn College. In one of those postings, Suzanne Shaffer tells of the distinction between career preparation and merely getting a job after graduation. "That's the key," she writes.

Paul R. Watson, dean of academic services and first-year programs, welcomes employees to the First-Year Institute. The fifth annual First Year Institute was held May 30 for faculty and staff. The day’s activities provided participants with practical tools to reach and teach first-year students.

Plastics employees from five states were schooled by industry experts and campus professionals when the Plastics Innovation & Resource Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology held its sixth annual Heavy-Gauge/Cut-Sheet Thermoforming workshop in May.