Faculty & Staff Articles

Paul R. Watson, dean of academic services and first-year programs, welcomes employees to the First-Year Institute. The fifth annual First Year Institute was held May 30 for faculty and staff. The day’s activities provided participants with practical tools to reach and teach first-year students.

Plastics employees from five states were schooled by industry experts and campus professionals when the Plastics Innovation & Resource Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology held its sixth annual Heavy-Gauge/Cut-Sheet Thermoforming workshop in May.

Thomas McNally, in a photo from WACC's 1979 Montage yearbook Thomas Michael Patrick McNally, a member of the Williamsport Area Community College and Penn College faculty for more than 30 years, died Sunday, May 24, at his Camp Hill home. A licensed psychologist, McNally retired in 1998 as a counselor.

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. Stephen B. Wozniak, transfer from casual part-time Game Day Assistant, Women's Soccer, to full-time Procurement Services Assistant, beginning May 26 Mark A.

Senior Vice President William J. Martin points out the grandeur of the Community Arts Center for a stageful of Penn College's Classified personnel. Classified staff from Penn College were bused to and from the Community Arts Center on Wednesday for a daylong professional-development program. The agenda included a tour of the CAC with William J.

Nursing's Terri A. Stone, Sandra L. Richmond and Christine B. Kavanagh (from left) detail P.L.A.T.O.'s helpful streamlining of student remediation. Susan Slamka and James R. Dougherty III outline the role of video in human service students' role-playing exercises.

Countdown to College Coach A college-prep expert, who helps parents navigate the maze of higher education, is writing about Penn College for a national audience. Suzanne Shaffer, author of the Parents Countdown to College Coach blog, extensively toured campus on April 29-30. "Once students graduate from Penn College, they can hit the ground running.

Following the lead of metal sculptor and welding instructor Michael K. Patterson, welding majors at Penn College employed their skills to create "Student Bodies," abstract human forms that line the main campus mall. The project, one of three outdoor art installations dedicated during the college's 2014 Centennial celebration, is chronicled in a new YouTube video.

Kelly B. Butzler (right), associate professor of chemistry, introduces the keynote speaker to her Summer Teaching Institute audience. Pleasantly surprised to be labeled as the keynoter, Sperling engages her audience about "Fostering Students' Self-Regulated Learning: Strategies for Instruction." Framed by a backdrop of Earth Science Center greenery, Walter J.

Faculty and several staff members across campus joined Penn College’s Outreach for K-12 staff in providing a day of career learning for just over 1,000 middle-schoolers from five area school districts. The event is designed to give participants a taste of a variety of career options, which in turn will help them to make informed decisions about their futures. – Photos by Jennifer A.