Accounting & Business Administration Articles

Panelists (from left) Lisa M. Andrus, part-time instructor of business administration/management/marketing and owner of Andrus Hospitality; Samuel Ryder, vice president for FNB Bank and a member of the college’s Business Administration Advisory Committee; and alumnus Scott D. Rinker, ’12, branch manager for Jersey Shore State Bank.

In Fall 2016, Pennsylvania College of Technology will add to its business offerings a minor in financial counseling. Additionally, updates to coursework in accounting majors will prepare graduates to use and build secure accounting information systems for their future employers. The changes continue the college’s trademark responsiveness to community and industry needs.

Roy A. Fletcher, assistant professor of business administration: banking and finance, offers to share classroom access to the college’s live market tracking tools. Gerri F. Luke, dean of business and hospitality, offers an inspirational message, asking students to consider doing their best for others a bigger win than doing their best for themselves.

The public is invited to laugh and learn with comedic financial expert Colin Ryan from 5-6 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, in Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Klump Academic Center Auditorium.

A prospective student explores the college’s “Interactive Broker” live brokerage software during a session led by Roy A. Fletcher, assistant professor of business administration/banking and finance. Mark A. Ciavarella, assistant professor of business administration/management, talks with a potential student during a “meet and greet.” Attending a hands-on demonstration Michael D.

Samuel Ryder shares real-world insight. Ingenuity meets collaboration Tim Keohane indulges curiosity after his presentation. Carolyn Shirk engages up-and-coming businessfolk.

Kayla A. Gross, an applied management student from Danville, talks with 2011 business administration: banking and finance alumna Amy (Dibble) Chervinsky. Business students chat in the SASC lobby. Chris Frantz, ’05, business management, talks to an attentive audience that filled the SASC presentation room. A student asks alumni for their book recommendations.

The School of Business & Hospitality’s Gerri F. Luke, dean, and Brian D. Walton, assistant dean, chat with students during the event’s “professional meet-and-greet.” High school students chat with Terry A. Girdon, professor of business administration/management at Penn College, and Sam Ryder, senior vice president of FNB Bank (right). Girdon addresses a full room. John D.

Brian D. Walton has been named assistant dean of business and hospitality at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Walton had served as coordinator of academic operations for the School of Business & Hospitality since June 2013. “Brian Walton is an excellent addition to the leadership team in the School of Business & Hospitality,” said Paul L.

Gerri F. Luke has been named dean of business and hospitality at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Luke had served as interim dean since July. Previously, she was a professor of business administration/management and marketing and received the Veronica M. Muzic Master Teacher Award, the highest level of recognition for a Penn College faculty member, in 2013. She joined the faculty in 2004.