Faculty & Staff Articles

PCToday continues its regular feature welcoming new full-time and regular part-time Penn College employees, as reported by the Human Resources Office. Among the latest additions: Kevin Balthaser , Web Programmer/Analyst, ITS, effective June 4

Five Pennsylvania College of Technology employees presented sessions recently at the 2007 American College Personnel Association/National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Joint Meeting in Orlando, Fla. ACPA and NASPA are the two primary professional organizations for student affairs administrators; they sponsor a joint conference every 10 years.

Terry A. Girdon, head of the business administration department at Pennsylvania College of Technology, has been re-elected to chair the Board of Commissioners of the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education.

The Instructional Technology Grant award committee is pleased to announce the recipients of this year's awards. According to Jennifer McLean, director of instructional technology and distance learning, this second year of the program brought a range of high-quality proposals for integrating technology in the classroom.

As part of the Microsoft conversion process, Information Technology Services assigned temporary network/e-mail passwords to all employees. Now that the conversion is over, it is important to return to a secure password protocol. Therefore, ITS will initiate a required password change on May 1.

Henriette K. Evans, Act 101 academic and career specialist at Pennsylvania College of Technology, presented a workshop at the 2007 annual conference for the Pennsylvania Association of Developmental Educators held at Hershey on April 18-20.

A faculty member in Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Integrated Studies presented a paper at the Workshop on Nondisciplinary Philosophy, held earlier this month in Binghamton, N.Y. Brian M. McKeon, assistant professor of biology, presented "Psychological Dialetheism" during the April 14 workshop at Binghamton University.

Congratulations to this year's winners of Penn College's Distinguished Staff Awards, whose moments of surprise were captured by Christopher J. Leigh, video production coordinator. This year's honorees will receive official recognition at the May 17 all-college meeting in the ACC Auditorium: Jean M. Bremigen, Madigan Library operations manager, APT; Gloria J.

A history book co-authored by a member of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Integrated Studies faculty was published this month by Greenwood Press. William J. Astore, associate professor of history, co-wrote "Soldiers' Lives Through History: The Early Modern World" with Dennis E. Showalter, professor of history at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Two members of Pennsylvania College of Technology's automotive faculty are among a select few nationally to fully meet the Ford Motor Co.'s standards for its Automotive Student Service Educational Training program. The achievements of Christopher H. Van Stavoren, assistant professor of automotive technology, and John R.