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Dan Songer, director of campus police and safety, has been chosen by the Pitt-Bradford Staff Association for its 2012 Staff Association Award.

Aside from providing a source for high-quality bachelor’s and associate degrees, Pitt-Bradford provides the region with noncredit continuing education and workforce training.

Pitt-Bradford received confirmation this year that it is making progress toward one of its top goals – affordability for all students – when it was named one of the 150 “Best Value Colleges” in American for 2012 by The Princeton Review.

From a monkey rodeo to the halls of the Capitol, from the playing fields of Arizona to the laundry room of a Hampton Inn in Chicago, Pitt-Bradford students have spent the summer getting a glimpse of their chosen careers.

Three students from Pitt-Bradford were chosen to travel to Bloomington, Ind., this summer to attend the Undergraduate Inter-Fraternity Institute, the premiere national Greek leadership institute. The leadership institute trains students to develop their personal leadership style based on a wide array of study including case studies, journaling, discussion, and hands-on training.

Pitt-Bradford contributed $67.5 million to the regional economy in 2011, according to a new study by the University of Pittsburgh Center for Social and Urban Research, which has performed economic impact studies for small colleges across western Pennsylvania.

For the ninth consecutive year, The Princeton Review has recognized Pitt-Bradford as one of the best colleges in the northeast.

Pitt-Bradford will host two scholars from the Confucius Institute during the 2012-13 academic year who will teach Chinese language and culture to Pitt-Bradford students.

Dozens of first- through sixth-grade students are immersing themselves in science this week Pitt-Bradford's X-treme Science Camp.

Pitt-Bradford has received a gift of $250,000 from Harry R. Halloran Jr., board chairman and owner of American Refining Group, in support of the university’s Energy Institute.