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Total Experience Learning adjunct named finalist for PA Teacher of the Year award
Once a student of the Total Experience Learning Institute® (TExpL), Rachel Sebastian, a librarian at Brecknock Elementary School in the Gov. Mifflin School District, believes in its mission so deeply that she’s also an adjunct for the program base...
Back to where Mom began
When Carol Klimas ‘84 first stepped onto Alvernia College’s campus in the 1980s, it was a mere handful of buildings tucked on a hill in Reading, Pa., near Shillington where she grew up. While her daughter Kaili Klimas ‘25 graduated from an un...
Triumph through trauma fuels educational comeback
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Engineering Fellow puts experiential learning into practice
Robert Philpot’s love of engineering started at a young age. As a boy, he enjoyed constructing items with Legos, letting his imagination run wild. He was also blessed with the ability to understand mathematical concepts easily. Those interests led...