Education briefs
Swim-A-Thon set On Saturday, May 3, the third annual Swim-a-Thon for the Joseph Marcinek Charitable Foundation will be held at the Uniontown Area High School.
Doors will open at 9 a.m. and will stay open until noon, or when all swimmers are finished.
There will be t-shirts for sale, and participants raising more than $100 in donations will receive a free t-shirt. There will also be free donuts, bagels and refreshments for all those supporting the foundation. Proceeds benefit the Joseph Marcinek Charitable Foundation. The foundation awards scholarships to college-bound seniors at Uniontown High School each year.
Anyone interested in participating or for more information can contact Rian Davis at the Uniontown High School, Patricia Kohrman at the Uniontown YMCA or Adam Poling, chairman of the charitable foundation, at 724-366-7697.
The foundation honors and continues the work of Joseph Marcinek, a Uniontown High School graduate who attended the University of Pittsburgh, where he received his degree in psychology. He died in 2000, when an arsonist destroyed his apartment.
FCCAA offers classes
Fayette County Community Action Agency’s (FCCAA) Adult Education Program is adding two new classes to its curriculum.
Instructors are training adult students in basic computer skills and driver’s theory. The classes, which are free and open to the public, are held at the Community Action Education Center, located at 201 East Fairview Ave. in Connellsville.
The basic computer skills class is held on Mondays from 1 to 3 p.m. The driver’s theory class is held on Thursdays from 1 to 3 p.m. In addition, the FCCAA adult education program offers basic adult education skills classes Monday-Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon at the Community Action Education Center. The classes focus on enhancing reading, writing and math skills.
For more information, contact Connellsville Adult Education at 724-626-1070 or 724-626-READ.
Deadline extended
The application deadline for Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week 2003 has been extended to the end of the school year to allow more scholarships to be obtained and, thus, more students to be able to experience the program.
However, student applications received by April 30 will receive preferential treatment in the awarding of a scholarship and the assignment of the week in which they will participate.
The Foundation for Free Enterprise Education, a statewide business education organization, annually presents PFEW, an internationally recognized economic education program, endorsed by the Pennsylvania secretary of education, that teaches Pennsylvania’s high school sophomores and juniors about economics, the principles behind the private enterprise system, and how a business operates. Local businesses that would like to help their communities by helping young people prepare for a career in their own “backyards” may call the foundation at 814-833-9576 or make a pledge online at www.pfew.org
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Summer schedule set
Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, will offer 80 undergraduate and five graduate credit courses in 19 academic fields during three summer sessions, beginning May 19.
Registration may be completed by mail, FAX at 724-532-5063 or in person at the Saint Vincent College office of the registrar from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Phone 724-537-4559 or e-mail chaas@stvincent.edu.
Master’s degree offered
The Saint Vincent College Education Department, Latrobe, is offering a master’s degree program in curriculum and instruction.
For an application or additional information, contact the Office of Admission at Saint Vincent College, 724-537-4540 or 800-782-5549 or email admission@stvincent.edu.
WVU agency gets grant
West Virginia University’s Child Development and Family Support Services Office in Morgantown, W.Va., has received a financial boost from the U.S. Department of Education to create new child-care programs and services for WVU student parents.
The grant, from the education department’s Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program, will provide WVU about $84,939 in the first year, for a total $360,700 over a four-year project period, contingent on available federal funds.
Students who are also parents may e-mail Child Development and Family Support Services at begin childcare@mail.wvu.edu childcare@mail.wvu.edu end
to be added to the mailing lists for program and service updates.
WVU offers summer plan
Activities ranging from adventure and sports camps for kids to cultural enrichment programs for teen-agers are provided at West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va., throughout the summer.
The second annual Mountaineer Adventure Day Camp will be held in two sessions. Other summer activities include sports camps, the National Youth Sports Program, Governor’s Schools, West Virginia Writers’ Workshop and more than 2,000 summer credit courses on and off campus and on the Web.
To learn more about summer activities at WVU, go to the summer events Web site at www.wvu.edu/summerevents
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Fees, tuition hiked
West Virginia University’s Board of Governors has approved a package of tuition and fee increases of 9.5 percent for residents and 10.9 percent for out-of-state students for the 2003-2004 academic year at the Morgantown, W.Va., campus.
They also endorsed a voluntary classified staff severance package estimated to save the university more than $13 million over eight years.
Deadline announced
The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) is reminding students, school counselors and financial-aid officers that May 1 is the deadline for submission of the Pennsylvania state grant application for the 2003-04 academic year.
Students must file a free application for federal student aid (FAFSA) by May 1 if they are planning to enroll in an undergraduate baccalaureate degree program or a college transfer program at a two-year community or junior college.
Students seeking to renew state grants must also meet the May 1 deadline.
First-time applicants have until Aug. 1 to file the FAFSA.
FAFSA forms are available from school counselors, aid administrators, by calling the U.S. Department of Education at 1-800-FED-AID
or online at www.fafas.ed.gov
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Applicants may check the status of their application at www.pheaa.org
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For additional information visit PHEAA online at www.pheaa.org
or call PHEAA’s State Grant Division toll-free at 800-692-7392
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