COLLEGE NOTES
Northampton Community College
NCC a Hunger-Free Campus
The Pennsylvania Department of Education has designated Northampton Community College as a Pennsylvania Hunger-Free Campus. NCC students will be provided resources, strategies, and support, as well as opportunities to apply for grants so they can focus on their studies without the threat of food insecurity.
Food options through C.A.R.E. and H.O.P.E. on-campus food pantries serve students who are eligible to receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, provides Spartan Aid to help students with essential needs and connects students with other resources.
Information sessions offered
An Imaging Professions information session is from 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 30 for those interested in careers as sonographers, echocardiographers, vascular technologists, radiographers and mammographers. For details or to register, visit https://info.northampton.edu/imaging-professions-info-session
Muhlenberg College
New faculty added
Muhlenberg College has recently added seven new instructors to the staff. They are Odetta Addo, Sociology Consortium Faculty Diversity Fellow; Elizabeth June Bergman, Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance; Anito Gavino, Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance; Beatrice Bradley, Assistant Professor of English Literatures and Writing; Daniel Carrillo-Jara, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish; Melinda (Mel) Gurr, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology; and John Verkuilen, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Choral Conducting.
Promoted faculty are Robyn Watson, Lecturer of Dance; Heidi Cruz-Austin and Heather Gotter, Assistant Professors of Dance; and Justin Preddie, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Africana Studies.
Muhlenberg College is located at 2400 Chew Street, Allentown. For information, call 610-484-664-3100 or visit www.muhlenberg.edu/