(The following is drawn from remarks by Davie Jane Gilmour, Pennsylvania College of Technology president, during a Jan. 11 all-college meeting to open the Spring 2008 semester.) Good morning and Happy New Year. Any time I prepare for an all-college meeting, there are a few things I routinely do. I ask those people I work closely with if there is anything for me to announce, highlight, etc.
Two faculty from the Electronics & Computer Engineering Technology department recently completed Tyco Electronics' Netconnect Act I and Act II, a two-course sequence covering the installation, certification and troubleshooting of copper and optical fiber premises cabling systems.
Penn College's School of Business and Computer Technologies and the Outreach for K-12 Office again hosted the Region 7 Future Business Leaders of America Leadership Conference on Thursday.
The results of a faculty survey, distributed when members of the Quality Through Assessment Committee presented updates during each academic school's first meeting in the fall, have been posted to the QTA Web site .
Pennsylvania College of Technology students and faculty, returning to campus for the start of spring-semester classes, are learning that Penn College Police will double off-campus patrols in response to recent crimes in the city, including off-campus burglaries and shootings.
The Pennsylvania Department of Education has awarded funds to Pennsylvania College of Technology to continue its Act 101 program â which provides personal support, guidance and tutoring to eligible students â for 2007-08. The Higher Education Equal Opportunity Program, commonly known as Act 101, was established by the state Legislature in 1971.
A recent fundraiser by Pennsylvania College of Technology students generated nearly $3,300 for some of the world's working poor. The funds were raised by students pursuing bachelor's degrees in applied human services who hosted a sale of fair-trade handmade crafts on campus in November, through an organization called Ten Thousand Villages.
Penn College Police have issued a new Crime Alert. Police have doubled patrols both on and off campus as a result of recent crime activity in the city. None of the incidents occurred on campus. Off-Campus Apartment Burglaries Since Dec.
Carissa M. Waiksnoris, 19, of Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, a student in the human services major at Penn College in the Fall 2007 semester, died Friday, Jan. 4, from injuries suffered in a vehicle accident on Interstate 80 in Copper Township, Clearfield County. Penn College flags were lowered to half-staff, and a memorial brick will be placed in her honor in the Remembrance Garden.
Two Pennsylvania College of Technology employees offered a presentation recently at the Middle States Commission on Higher Education annual conference in Philadelphia. Tina M. Evans-Simington, assistant professor of dental hygiene/applied health studies, and Jeremiah C.
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