Dual Enrollment Articles

A Pennsylvania College of Technology corporate partner has contributed nearly $1 million over two years to support an initiative that allows dual enrollment and prospective students to virtually experience the institution.

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.

Following an update to its own lab equipment, Pennsylvania College of Technology’s School of Engineering Technologies recently donated unused items to Mifflin County Academy of Science and Technology. Forty students from the academy toured the electrical and mechatronics technology labs, where they accepted the donation of equipment.

Pennsylvania College of Technology has entered into its first cyber charter dual enrollment partnership, which will begin with the 2025-2026 school year. Insight PA Cyber Charter School, a K-12 public online school that offers virtual education to students throughout Pennsylvania, was selected as part of a state Dual Credit Innovation Grant Program.

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.