Education
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Four Montgomery County Schools Make Newsweek’s Top 500 List of Best High Schools
Four high schools from Montgomery County have made it onto the Newsweek’s America’s Top High Schools listing for 2016, once more confirming the high quality of education in the area. Newsweek assessed schools across the country based on a number of criteria, among them their student retention, counselor-student ratio, graduation rates, college enrollment rates, as…
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Montgomery County 4-H Fair Set for Next Week in Collegeville
The Montgomery County 4-H Fair is held every year during the second week in August on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at the Montgomery County 4-H Center, located at 1015 Bridge Road in Collegeville. The Fair times for 2016 are: Aug. 11, 4:00 PM-9:30 PM Aug. 12, 9:30 AM-9:30 PM Aug. 13, 9:30 AM-4:00 PM The…
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Conshohocken’s Maguire Foundation Donates $1.25 Million Toward Scholarships at La Salle
La Salle University has received a $1.25 million endowment commitment from Conshohocken’s Maguire Foundation, which will provide permanent financial support to La Salle students who are Maguire Scholars. La Salle will match, dollar-for-dollar, this commitment to create the $2.5 million Maguire Endowed Scholars Program – one of the largest endowed scholarships in the university’s history.…
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Biochemistry Major from Hatboro Joins Study on Bats and Organic Pest Management
Hatboro’s Justin Hoffman, a biochemistry major at Albright College, and fellow student Joshua Reeder will be studying bats and organic pest management over the summer as part of a co-operation between Albright College and the Rodale Institute, according to a staff report from BCTV.org. Rodale was awarded a $15,000 grant by the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture…
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Flight from Syria Inspires Upper Merion Grad, GlaxoSmithKline Scholarship Winner
She endured months of confinement in the midst of Syrian civil war and then months of homelessness after fleeing to Philadelphia. But now that harried past is inspiring a promising future. Maryam Hallaj, an Upper Merion High School graduate and Temple University senior majoring in architecture, is about to step into a landscape of opportunity.…
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Ursinus College Sees Credit Rating Fall in Order to Further Strategic Vision
Ursinus College’s credit rating has slipped down a notch, due in part to its decision to borrow additional funds to build a new facility on the campus, writes Harold Brubaker for the Philadelphia Inquirer. S&P Global Ratings has downgraded the credit rating of the private liberal arts college in Collegeville from A- to BBB+. As…
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Upper Merion Township, Valley Forge Casino Team Up to Award $152K in Grants, Scholarships
It was time for celebration at the Board of Community Assistance Awards Ceremony in Upper Merion, as officials from Upper Merion Township and the Valley Forge Casino Resort presented 65 grants and scholarships, writes Justin Heinze for the Tredyffrin-Easttown Patch. The Upper Merion Board of Supervisors and Valley Forge Casino Resort established the Board of…
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Local Girls Scoff at Stereotype, Explore Careers in Construction at Camp MAGIC
Eighteen girls swapped roasting marshmallows for high-powered nail guns to gain insight into a future career in construction at Camp MAGIC, writes Jane Von Bergen for the Philadelphia Inquirer. The five-day Camp for Mentoring a Girl in Construction (MAGIC), which recently ended last week, took place at the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters’ Northeast Philadelphia apprentice-training…
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Pottstown Native and Hill School Graduate the Only Pennsylvanian to Win Morehead-Cain Scholarship to North Carolina
Olivia Zitkus, a Pottstown native and recent graduate of The Hill School, is the only Pennsylvanian and one of just 66 students in the world to receive a 2016 Morehead-Cain scholarship. Named for its benefactors, John Motley Morehead III and the Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation, the Morehead-Cain provides a full four-year scholarship to the…
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MCCC Creates New Program for Students Interested in Third Fastest-Growing Occupation in America
Starting in the summer of 2017, Montgomery County Community College will introduce a new Physical Therapist Assistant program geared toward preparing graduates for employment as entry-level physical therapist assistants. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, physical therapist assistant is third on the list of the 20 fastest-growing occupations nationwide, with the numbers of…
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Owen J. Roberts Student Wins $30,000 for Her ‘Heart-Rending, Eye-Opening’ Take on Life in Pottstown
Chandler Kalitsi drew from her experience growing up in Pottstown when she penned “a heart-rending, if not eye-opening, essay about what it means to be an African-American in a predominantly white school.” The insight won her a $30,000 scholarship toward a higher education in chemistry at Temple University, according to a Digital Notebook post by…
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MCCC Celebrates Dresher Couple Who Helped Raise More Than $10 Million for School
The generosity of Richard Montalbano and Deborah Cross helped the Montgomery County Community College recently celebrate the naming of its Presidential Reading Room in Blue Bell, writes Justin Heinze for the Hatboro-Horsham Patch. The generous pledge by the Dresher couple, made as part of the MCCC Foundation’s Futures Rising campaign that raised more than $10…
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Student-faculty Ratio, Empowerment Earn Gwynedd Mercy College of Distinction Honors
As a result of its innovative application of high-impact educational practices, Gwynedd Mercy University has earned national recognition as a College of Distinction. The University is listed as a College of Distinction, a Catholic College of Distinction, and a Pennsylvania College of Distinction. To earn this recognition, schools must demonstrate results across the Four Distinctions:…
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North Penn, MCCC Graduate Entrepreneur Launches B2B Social Media Marketing Company
Andrew Belton did not wait for his learning days at Montgomery County Community College to be over before he started his own business, writes Theresa Katalinas for the school’s website. A 2014 North Penn High School graduate, Belton started Symmetrical Media Marketing during his winter college break in 2015 and found that becoming an entrepreneur while…
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Plymouth Meeting Native, MCCC Graduate Overcomes Obstacles En Route to Near-Perfect GPA
Plymouth Meeting native Kyle Bone, winner of the 2016 Alumni Graduate Achievement Award and now a graduate of Montgomery County Community College with a GPA of 3.978, admits that getting where he is now has not been easy, writes Kayleigh DiGiacomo for the college’s website. Bone struggled with depression during high school, and it caused him…
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Ursinus College Launches Summer Business Assist Initiative
Ursinus College has launched a Summer Business Assist Initiative which pairs students with local businesses to help them develop marketing ideas. Through the pilot program, 14 students will provide seven new or established businesses with a creative marketing boost under the college’s U-Imagine Center for Integrative and Entrepreneurial Studies. “We want the students to help…
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Renovations Begin on Pottstown Regional Library
Renovations to the Pottstown Regional Public Library on East High Street have commenced, writes Joe Zlomek for The Pottstown Post. While the staff is hoping to keep the library operational throughout the construction process, Executive Director Susan Davis said that, during the major exterior and interior renovations works, public spaces including its entrance, public computers, as well…
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Montgomery County Community College, PECO Collaborate to Develop a Skilled Natural Gas Workforce
The Collegiate Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development, in partnership with PECO and other industry counterparts, has announced the availability of a new introductory training program to develop a skilled natural gas workforce. The Gas Distribution Pipeline Mechanic Introduction Program was developed to provide students with the fundamental skills necessary to work in the natural…
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