Dr. Linda M. Fleming, Vice-President of Academic and Student Affairs at the Northern Pennsylvania Regional College (NPRC), was one of two experts who participated in a national video roundtable on April 15th, 2020, entitled From Crisis to Opportunity: Technology’s Turning Point in Higher Ed Student Communications. During the virtual roundtable, sponsored by AtlasRTX, Dr. Fleming … Read more
Northern Pennsylvania Regional College’s footprint covers nine counties and is geographically larger than Connecticut; in fact, NPRC’s mission is comparable to having one two-year college serving the entire state of Connecticut. When looking at the demography of the nine counties, we serve over half a million people, and 47-49% of them are in Erie County. … Read more
Northern Pennsylvania Regional College (NPRC) passed a significant milestone on April 1st, 2020, as the college received official notification that the accrediting body accepted NPRC’s letter of intent to apply for regional accreditation. “The accreditation process is a long and arduous one, and we are very pleased to have received this official notification,” said NPRC … Read more
Affordable: Thousands of dollars are available to current childcare workers seeking their CDA! Achievable: Prepare to earn your CDA in as little as 15 weeks. Accessible: Earning your degree as an early care or education provider is now easier than ever. Initiatives from the Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning have made a … Read more
Northern Pennsylvania Regional College (NPRC) is a mission-driven institution and Founding President Joseph T. Nairn recognizes that the team built within the organization is committed to showing up every day for all the right reasons. “Every day that we do our jobs well we change people’s lives, we give people opportunities they may not have … Read more
NPRC is often mischaracterized as online, virtual, or education by t.v. While NPRC may have a unique model, it is not online. There are roughly half a million people in NPRC’s service area, a region larger than the state of Connecticut, but the ability to have a lecture or structured presentation where everyone is participating … Read more
Affordable Associate Degrees & Workforce Development Programs in Erie, Warren & Venango Counties At NPRC, we serve a broad geographic area. The model we use to deliver our classes was developed explicitly for this widely underserved and, in some cases, never served area. We have more than 25 classroom sites in our nine-county region where … Read more
Recent articles in the Washington Monthly (September/October 2018) and the Detroit Free Press (October 2019) have raised awareness about “education deserts” that exist across rural America. Northern Pennsylvania is no stranger to these “deserts” as the region across the Northern Tier, from Erie in the West to the Scranton/New York border in the East, is … Read more
About NPRC’s Affordable Training & Workforce Development Programs To combat the state unemployment rate, many of the communities served by the Northern Pennsylvania Regional College have noted a need for additional workforce development training statewide, and fortunately, they’re not the only ones to notice. “That’s why when the college was founded, [workforce development training] … Read more
In 2012, the legislature granted authority to the education contortions of the upper Alleghany to start a pilot project. What began as the 2012 Education Consortium of the Upper Allegheny became the Northern Pennsylvania Regional College (NPRC) in 2019. They then partnered with Gannon University, politicians, educators, and community leaders in Erie, PA to … Read more
