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Penn College: essential careers prepared daily

College degree can be a ticket to a
self-described “dream job.” And if
COVID-19 has taught the academic
community anything, it’s the value of
all professions for which the college
prepares its eventual graduates.
Known on their Susquehanna
Valley campuses as “tomorrow
makers,” Penn College students are
poised to make a difference where
it counts: in such critical front- the world shut down in many ways,
line careers as nursing and health you would have been in the group of
sciences, emergency management people deemed ‘essential’ to keep
and homeland security; in us going. And we’re going to be in
transportation; and in manufacturing a better place because of you, our
and other engineering technologies. graduates.”
“All of you sitting in front of me For more about the college, visit
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – This “When the world threw a national today are essential to what we www.pct.edu, email admissions@pct.edu
season’s commencement speaker at pandemic at us, we adapted. When do,” college President Davie Jane or call toll-free 800-367-9222.
Pennsylvania College of Technology’s our classes moved to online learning, Gilmour said in concluding her
spring/summer ceremonies looked we adapted. When our neighbors commencement remarks. “When
no further than current events to find stole all of our toilet paper and the
a hook for her inspirational address. price for hand sanitizer skyrocketed,
we adapted,” the graphic design
Rather than dwell on the anxiety graduate told an array of masked
writ large in each day’s top story, classmates and their families.
2020 however, Alexandra D. Petrizzi chose time to make a difference.” Public Relations & Marketing
“History found us, and now it’s our
a positive pair of bywords that
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27, have echoed on campus since the as a user interaction designer at Contact: Tom Wilson, Writer /
Petrizzi is working in Indiana
institution’s founding in the run-up
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to World War I: “perseverance” and
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When the going gets tough, nothing
stands in the way of a tomorrow maker.
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rise to the challenge. Pursuing essential
careers with staying power. Putting
our best in today so we can get even
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a difference is the end game. And a
tomorrow maker is always in demand.

Now accepting Spring and Fall 2021 applications

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