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A tree along the main campus entrance has been decorated with 408 stars, each representing a military member of the Penn College community – and each fashioned by a serviceman enrolled in the School of Industrial, Computing and Engineering Technologies. Using the 60-ton Minster 5 press in the Machining Technologies Center, students of Howard W. Troup, maintenance mechanic/millwright, and Keith H.

While Veterans Day (Nov. 11) provides an annual salute to the countless individuals who have served in the U.S. armed forces, veterans’ advocacy is a daily priority at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Four active and former military personnel who provide assistance to their fellow veterans at the college’s Financial Aid Office personify that priority.

Penn College welcomed prospective students, their families and friends, and its community neighbors to Fall Open House on Sunday. Helpful employees, students and alumni were on hand throughout the day to enable exploration of academic programs, student life, and the college's campuses and facilities.

The diverse “degrees that work” offered at Pennsylvania College of Technology, a national leader in applied technology education, will be on display from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the college’s Open House on Sunday, Oct. 26.

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s commitment to veterans has earned the institution “Military Friendly” status for the sixth consecutive year. On Tuesday, Victory Media named Penn College as a Military Friendly School for 2015.

A "bucket brigade" of Student Ambassadors, representing Greek Life, athletics or some of the college's "degrees that work," forms at the main entrance. Dennis L. Correll, associate dean of admissions and financial aid, helps the college mascot avoid soggy sneakers. Joseph J. Balduino gamely accepts the Ice Bucket Challenge ... ... and is handily doused by a Wildcat Waterfall.

WNEP visits campus Newswatch 16 reporter Kristina Papa visited Penn College on Thursday, enhancing her story about back-to-school shopping. In an interview taped outside the Student & Administrative Services Center, recruitment director Joseph J.

WBRE on campus Eyewitness News reporter Valerie Tysanner visited main campus Tuesday for local feedback on White House action to cap eligible students' annual loan payments at 10 percent of discretionary income. Her piece – featuring comments from Tristan J. Mauck, a first-year web and interactive media major from Philadelphia, and Dennis L.

Pennsylvania College of Technology will offer focused academic school tours for prospective transfer students June 9-12. Each Transfer Day will include opportunities to speak with academic school staff, tour lab areas specific to academic majors and tour the campus.

Comments from skilled-trades advocate Mike Rowe are included in a video newly added to Penn College's You Tube channel, documenting the institution's first-time participation at the USA Science & Engineering Festival Expo in Washington, D.C.