Higher Education’s Brave New World

Why top students are choosing trade school over traditional college. Raelee Nicholson could have had her pick of prestigious four-year universities. The high school junior from just outside of Pittsburgh is a member of the National Honor Society, is earning A’s in her honors classes, and scored very highly on her college board exams. So naturally, a top-notch private college, an elite public university, or maybe even an Ivy was the next logical step for Nicholson after high school. Right? Wrong. The stellar student decided that the path she wanted to choose was a trade school to train for a career as a diesel mechanic. Welcome to the realities of higher education in the year 2018. Nicholson’s story was told […]

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Faculty Spotlight: Zach Dean – Welding Technology

Zach Dean grew up on a farm. In addition to doing the usual farm chores a boy of 10 would do, Dean learned to weld. That was the beginning of what would be a fulfilling – and profitable – career. “We were always welding stuff there on the farm,” Dean, an instructor in Penn Commercial’s […]

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