Faculty & Staff Articles

As we prepare for the start of another busy academic year, the Human Resources Office reminds all Penn College employees of the referral bonus program in the Food Services department. Since the program started in the summer of 2000, Food Services has hired 25 people as a result of recommendations from college employees.

Sample issues of the latest National Teaching and Learning Forum newsletter are available for pickup (copies will not be mailed) in the Penn College Library for interested faculty and staff.

PCToday continues its regular feature welcoming new full-time and regular part-time Penn College employees, as reported by the Human Resources Office. Among the latest additions: Daniel Praster, Custodian, Residence Halls, General Services, effective April 24

A Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty member who developed the plastics and polymer technology program at the college and became its first instructor in 1987 was named the 2006 recipient of the International Education Award from the Society of Plastics Engineers. Timothy E.

Institutional Advancement staff canvassed Penn College on Thursday, handing out color-changing stadium cups to kick off the 2006-07 Annual Fund Employee Campaign.Campaign gift forms are being delivered via interoffice mail to all full-time and regular part-time employees today. A drawing will be held again this year to help promote the Annual Fund Employee Campaign.

Janet McMahon, associate professor of nursing at Pennsylvania College of Technology, recently offered the keynote address for the statewide Louisiana Organization for Associate Degree Nursing. Her address was titled "Making the Difference for Tomorrow's Future Leaders" and was attended by 250 nursing educators and students.

Pennsylvania College of Technology's Board of Directors today approved the hiring of Lizabeth Self Mullens as the next vice president for academic affairs/provost. Veronica M.

The Pennsylvania College of Technology Board of Directors today approved the hiring of Lizabeth Self Mullens as the next vice president for academic affairs/provost. Mullens, who has served as director of the Women's Leadership Initiative in the College of Health and Human Development at The Pennsylvania State University since 2003, will assume her new position on July 1. Veronica M.

Matthew P. Branca, director of The College Store at Pennsylvania College of Technology, presented a workshop on teamwork development at the annual Super Regional Meeting and Buying Show, held April 2-5 at the Foxwoods Resort in Ledyard, Conn.

Three representatives of the Pennsylvania College of Technology Library collaborated on a presentation at the recent NERCOMP 2006 regional annual conference in Worcester, Mass. Marilyn G. Bodnar, instruction librarian; James R. Carpenter, a computer information technology-internetworking application development major and part-time library employee; and Joshua D.