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 When 1,438 undergraduate students begin classes at Alvernia College on Monday, August 27, they’ll be part of the largest-ever enrollment at the private Franciscan college -- 2,800 day and evening students across the College’s three Pennsylvania campuses in Reading, Pottsville, and Philadelphia, an increase of 150 students over last year.
“This year we have our best-ever overall enrollment,” explained Alvernia President Thomas F. Flynn “And a stronger new student enrollment of 430 students.”
New students moved into the residence halls today and have an orientation program
that lasts through Sunday that includes a formal Opening Convocation with an
academic procession, a barbeque with President Flynn, workshops on diversity
and getting better grades, and special entertainment such as “Back to School
with Mr. Belding” featuring Dennis Haskins from “Saved by the Bell.”
In addition, Alvernia’s 1,300 graduate and evening undergraduate students have a new academic home three-quarters of a mile from campus. The Division of Graduate and Continuing Studies is now located in the newly renovated Upland Center, which is now equipped with six new classrooms, two seminar/meeting rooms, two conference rooms, smartboards, and digital projection equipment in every room with plans to add teleconferencing capability to one of the larger meeting rooms.
 The Upland Center also offers a lunchroom and lounge areas for students. Upland Center will also be the new home of the Center for Community Engagement and Leadership Berks as well as providing a new suite of offices for faculty.
The start of the 2007-08 year also marks the addition of numerous faculty and staff positions, many of whom are serving in the College Life and Student Learning Services Division.
Alvernia College is a private Franciscan College rooted in the Catholic and liberal arts traditions, offering 50 programs of study as well as pre-professional programs in medicine, dentistry, law, and veterinary medicine. On the graduate level, it offers one doctoral program, seven master’s degrees, and two graduate-level certification programs, and a Seniors College for persons age 55 and over.
Sponsored by the Bernardine Sisters of Saint Francis, its mission is to provide a rigorous, caring, and inclusive learning community committed to academic excellence and to being and fostering broadly educated lifelong learners, reflective professionals and engaged citizens, and ethical learners with moral courage.
Updated:
August 29, 2007
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