School of Sciences, Humanities & Visual Communications News Articles

As education news buzzes about the cost for state colleges and universities to provide developmental courses to help high school graduates prepare for college-level classes, two local school districts are pairing with Pennsylvania College of Technology to help ensure their students are ready for college mathematics.

Richard Sahn, instructor of sociology at Pennsylvania College of Technology, recently presented a paper, “The Problem with Horatio Alger Socialization: Why Students From Working-Class Families Identify With the 1 Percent,” at a professional conference. The presentation was made at the annual conference of the Pennsylvania Sociological Society on Oct. 13 at Penn State Schuylkill.

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Children’s Learning Center received continued funding to help provide child-care access to parents pursuing higher education at the college. Generally referred to as a “CCAMPIS” grant, which stands for “Child Care Access Means Parents in School,” the funding comes from the U.S.

Jonathan E. Harris, a computer aided product design major from Danville, takes steady aim. Brent K. Hey, of Chambersburg, majoring in residential construction technology and management: building construction technology concentration, intently prepares. Faculty member D. Robert Cooley demonstrates winning form – "like throwing a potato off the end of a fork" – for William P.

"Sea trials" for the floating box Test flight of a homemade kite With Adam J. Zapotok in command, the winning craft is pulled merrily along by a kite. The Society of Inventors and Mad Scientists, an assemblage of students in Penn College's industrial and human factors design major, held a kite-propelled boat race at Rose Valley Lake on Saturday.

William J. Astore, professor of history at Pennsylvania College of Technology, recently presented a paper at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Astore spoke on Sept. 13 as part of the Johns Hopkins Colloquia Series in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology. The title of his paper was “One Size Doesn’t Fit All: The Perils of Developing ‘Big’ Software Systems for the U.S.

A member of the Pennsylvania College of Technology Foundation Board of Directors and his wife have created a scholarship at the college. Ray Mattie, a 1984 alumnus, and his wife, Michelle, established the Mattie Family Scholarship at Penn College.

A regional hub for the biennial International AIDS Conference, organized by AIDS Resource Alliance and co-sponsored by Pennsylvania College of Technology, will be held Oct. 25-26 at the Thompson Professional Development Center on the college’s main campus in Williamsport.

Nancy A. Grausam The annual meeting of the Central Susquehanna Association for the Education of Young Children was held Wednesday at the Dunham Children’s Learning Center at Penn College. Officers were elected during the business meeting, including Nancy A. Grausam, assistant professor of early childhood education, who will serve a two-year term as an at-large board member. Barbara A.

A new minor in criminal justice at Pennsylvania College of Technology will help to prepare students who may enter careers working in conjunction with the law-enforcement system.