Penn College Dual Enrollment Articles

The Shapiro Administration recently announced $14 million in Dual Credit Innovation Grant Program funding to 15 public institutions across Pennsylvania. Included is a $1 million grant to Pennsylvania College of Technology to expand course offerings to new partners, increase offerings for current secondary partners, and enhance instructor professional development and career-awareness engagement events and activities for students.

“It’s poetry in motion.” Former high school football coach Chuck Crews may have been referring to his beloved sport with those words, but they could also describe his activities as Penn College’s assistant director of secondary partnerships. Crews is moving around campus and the state, making connections, building bridges and encouraging more “Tomorrow Makers." He discusses it all in the latest episode of the Tomorrow Makers podcast.

A longtime advocate of applied technology education is donating $8,000 to empower area high school students taking college-credit courses via Pennsylvania College of Technology. PPL Electric Utilities has made the financial commitment through the Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program to support Penn College Dual Enrollment.

Continuing its support of Pennsylvania College of Technology, WM, formerly known as Waste Management, has donated $10,000 to back the institution’s dual enrollment program. Penn College Dual Enrollment enables academically qualified high school and career and technology education center students to take college-credit courses tuition-free during their regular school day.

The third annual Rotorfest, held this month at Pennsylvania College of Technology, brought more than 500 K-12 students and educators to campus to learn about the college’s emergency management & homeland security major and interact with a wide range of emergency response professionals.

Jersey Shore State Bank recently made a gift to support Penn College Dual Enrollment, a program that allows academically qualified high school and career and technology education center students to take Penn College courses tuition-free during their regular school day. The bank provided a $7,000 gift to the program through the Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program.

Susquehanna Community Bank has again made a $1,000 Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program donation to the Pennsylvania College of Technology Foundation to assist with dual enrollment at the college. The bank’s EITC donation, the sixth it has made to the college, will benefit the Penn College Dual Enrollment program, which enables academically qualified high school and career and technology center students to take tuition-free courses for college credit.

WNEP-TV stopped by the third annual Rotorfest, held Tuesday on the front lawns and parking lots of Pennsylvania College of Technology. Hosted by the emergency management & homeland security major, the event attracted nearly 600 K-12 students and school staff from 13 counties, as well as a range of emergency responders.

Penn College hosted more than 350 students on campus during the semester’s first two Dual Enrollment Student Visit Days. The students – who are taking Penn College classes at their high school or career and technical education center – got a look at the labs where their on-campus counterparts study. “I love this place already,” said a York County School of Technology student touring the college’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning labs.

Pennsylvania College of Technology recently received a $75,000 grant from a major North American energy company. TC Energy Corp., through its Build Strong program, awarded the grant in support of mechatronics education and the college’s dual-enrollment efforts.