Updated: Pottstown Area Students Make The Grade

• Lock Haven

Lock Haven University has released the names of students who achieved Dean's List recognition for the Fall 2011 semester. The Dean's Honor List, prepared at the end of each semester, recognizes those students who have achieved academic distinction. To qualify for the Dean's List, the student must have earned a GPA of at least 3.5 in 12 hours of letter grades.

Dr. Zakir Hossain, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Dr. Mary L. Rose-Colley, interim dean of the College of Education and Human Services, praised the students' commitment to academic achievement and noted the discipline and hard work required to qualify for the Dean's List.

Local students named to the Fall 2011 Lock Haven University Dean's List are as follows:

Pottstown resident Larissa T. Cabunag , Senior, Recreation Management/Therapeutic

Pottstown resident Ashley N. Roberts , Freshman, Social Work

Pottstown resident Colette M. Young , Senior, Sport Administration

Lock Haven University is a member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, the largest provider of higher education in the commonwealth. Its 14 universities offer more than 250 degree and certificate programs in more than 120 areas of study. Nearly 405,000 system alumni live and work in Pennsylvania.

 

• University of Southern Mississippi

DOUGLASSVILLE - HATTIESBURG CAMPUS

Dean's List:
Craig Allan Smith

The University of Southern Mississippi, founded in 1910, is a comprehensive doctoral and research-extensive university fulfilling its mission of being a leading university in engaging and empowering individuals to transform lives and communities.  In a tradition of leadership for student development, Southern Miss is educating a 21st century work force providing intellectual capital, cultural enrichment and innovation to Mississippi and the world.  Southern Miss is located in Hattiesburg, Miss., with an additional campus and teaching and research sites on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

• Clarkson University

Amanda L. Koenck of Pottstown, PA, a senior majoring in political science, was named to the Dean's List for the fall 2011 semester at Clarkson University.

Dean's List students must achieve a minimum 3.25 grade-point average and also carry at least 14 credit hours.

Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise. Of the 1,003 universities in Payscale's College Salary Report, Clarkson graduates have the seventeenth highest starting salaries.

 

• Delaware Valley College

Dr. Bashar Hanna, Delaware Valley College's Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the faculty, announced the following students have been honored for academic achievement by being named to the Fall 2011 Dean's List.

Shelby Garner, Pottstown, PA

Kristen Durkin, Pottstown, PA

Kimberly Roberts, Pottstown, PA

Delaware Valley College is a four-year institution of higher education located in Doylestown, Pa. It offers 25 programs of study on the undergraduate level as well as graduate level programs and has about 1700 full-time undergraduates.

 

• Gettysburg College

Gettysburg College students with a quality point average of 3.33 or higher for a semester's work are placed on the Dean's Commendation List. The following students from your area have been placed on the Fall 2011 list:

Stephen Andrasko, from Pottstown

Kathryn Gittings, from Pottstown

Olivia Powell, from Pottstown

Douglas Smith, from Pottstown

Founded in 1832, Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences with a strong academic tradition that includes Rhodes Scholars, a Nobel laureate and other distinguished scholars among its alumni. The college enrolls 2,600 undergraduate students and is located on a 200-acre campus adjacent to the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania.

 

• Wilkes University

Wilkes University Provost Reynold Verret announces the Dean's List for the Fall 2011 Semester. The university extends its congratulations to the following students:

Jordan D'Emilio, of Stowe, Pa.

Edward Martinko, of Pottstown, Pa.

To be named to the Dean's List, students must obtain a minimum 3.4 GPA and carry at least 12 credits.

 

• Wake Forest University

Janak Padhiar a resident of Pottstown, PA, was among over 1800 students from Wake Forest University who made the Fall Dean's List.

Founded in 1834, Wake Forest University is a top-25 university located in Winston-Salem, NC. Wake Forest combines the best tradition of a small liberal arts college with the resources of a national research university.

 

• The University of Vermont

Eric A. Stadlin, of Pottstown, PA has been named to the dean's list for the fall 2011 semester at the University of Vermont. Stadlin is a first-year student Business Administration major in the School of Business Administration.

To be named to the dean's lists, students must have a grade-point average of 3.0 or better and rank in the top 20 percent of their class in their respective college or school.

Chartered in 1791, UVM was the first college or university in the United States that did not give preference to a religious sect in its charter. UVM now has nearly 10,460 undergraduates in seven schools and colleges, 1,490 graduate students and 452 medical students. As a small, comprehensive university, it blends the academic heritage of a private university with service missions in the land-grant tradition.

 

• The University of Scranton

Joseph Nagy of Pottstown has been named to the Dean's List at The University of Scranton, which recognizes students for academic excellence during the 2011 fall semester. A student must have a grade point average of 3.5 or better with a minimum number of credit hours to make the Dean's List. The list includes students from the Jesuit university's College of Arts and Sciences, the Kania School of Management, the Panuska College of Professional Studies and the College of Graduate and Continuing Education. More than 1,420 students were named to fall 2011 semester Dean's List.

Nagy is a senior finance major in Scranton's Kania School of Management.