Faculty & Staff Articles

FYE students of Edward J. Almasy (left) flaunt the pizza they won as the semester's most engaging class. Congratulations to Edward J. Almasy’s students for receiving the Spring 2018 Financial Literacy Challenge Award as the most “engaging” First-Year Experience class based on presentations by Career Services’ Dana R. Suter. (Second and third place, respectively, went to Marc E.

For the third consecutive year, Pennsylvania College of Technology has been honored with Tree Campus USA recognition for effective forest management and for engaging employees and students in conservation goals.

There is a nationwide push for 80 percent of registered nurses to have their bachelor's degree by 2020. Pennsylvania College of Technology is helping to meet that challenge with its online BSN degree, designed for the working nurse. Thanks to an eight-week class schedule, full-time BSN students can complete the program in a year.

Three commencement ceremonies will be offered May 11-12 for the more than 900 students who have petitioned to graduate following the Spring 2018 semester at Pennsylvania College of Technology. All of the ceremonies will be held at the Community Arts Center, 220 W. Fourth St., Williamsport, with more than 780 students expected to march.

Nearly all 27 members of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s SkillsUSA team – 21 of them advancing to the 54th annual National Leadership and Skills Conference in Louisville, Kentucky – earned medals during recent state competition.

Two Pennsylvania College of Technology students finished in the Top Three in their category during the 2018 Cake Extravaganza at the Atlantic Bakery Expo in Atlantic City. Jacqueline R. Dull, a baking and pastry arts student from Mohnton, received first place in the student tiered wedding cake category, and Taylor M.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students bested scores of schools at Baja SAE Maryland over the weekend. The Penn College team posted top 10 showings in three events, including the demanding four-hour endurance race. The competition attracts approximately 100 college and university teams from across the world, who design and build a dune-buggy-like vehicle to survive various performance tests.

President Gilmour addresses the crowd at the 2013 Little League Baseball World Series, her first as board chair. An article in NCAA Champion magazine marks the recent conclusion of Davie Jane Gilmour's tenure as chair of the Little League International Board of Directors, sharing memories and milestones from the Penn College president's five-year term at the organization's helm.

PCToday continues its regular feature: welcoming new full-time and regular part-time Pennsylvania College of Technology employees, as reported by the Human Resources Office. Sarah A. Kinney, full-time Penn College Police Officer, starting April 23 Only new college hires and employees transferring from one internal position to another in certain situations are reported.

Three honor society chapters at Pennsylvania College of Technology held induction ceremonies this month. Many of the morning's student VIPs joined their co-advisers for an outdoor memento of their achievement. Phi Theta Kappa Eighty-nine students were admitted into the college’s Beta Epsilon Upsilon Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, an international honor society for students in two-year majors.