Emergency Management & Homeland Security Articles

State Rep. Clint Owlett shared a video on his Facebook page to highlight a recent emergency simulation provided to first-year state representatives by Penn College’s emergency management & homeland security faculty and students.

A group of state representatives recently visited Pennsylvania College of Technology to learn more about the emergency management & homeland security program and further explore the Multiple Interactive Learning Objectives system.

WNEP-TV’s Mackenzie Aucker visited Rotorfest, an event planned and managed by Penn College emergency management & homeland security students, on Tuesday. Her story aired on the region's ABC affiliate station Tuesday evening.

WNEP-TV’s Mackenzie Aucker recently checked out Penn College’s new Multiple Interactive Learning Objectives – or MILO – system. Aucker interviewed William A. Schlosser, instructor of emergency management & homeland security, as well as students Isaak B. Fausey, of Mifflin, Emma J. Chilen, of Montoursville, and Erin N. Yerger, of Elizabethtown, to better understand the situational awareness simulator.

Four state representatives visited Penn College on Monday to learn more about its emergency management & homeland security degree and to try out the program’s new interactive simulation tool.

Seventeen members of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Emergency Management Club spent time in New York City in early December to explore the city’s history of emergency management.

Raised in a family rooted in community service, Mikya L. Stake is forging her own path – balancing a full college course load with overnight shifts as a live-in volunteer at a local fire department.

Pennsylvania College of Technology emergency and homeland security instructor William A. Schlosser has been named a Certified Emergency Manager by the International Association of Emergency Managers.

Can you survive a month in poverty? That was the key question at a recent Community Action Poverty Simulation explored by Penn College students in various majors in the School of Nursing & Health Sciences and School of Business, Arts & Sciences. Poverty simulations have been held at the college since Spring 2019, but the Spring 2025 event was the first to cast a wider net of cross-curricular collaboration.

Empowering tomorrow’s workforce through investing in Pennsylvania College of Technology students was the focus of the annual Donor Recognition Reception, held Monday evening in the lobby of the Davie Jane Gilmour Center. The event spotlights the powerful giving of alumni, corporate partners, employees, parents and friends.