Cedar Crest College

May 13 graduation

Cedar Crest College will celebrate 150 years of preparing students for life in the global community with a weekend full of graduation festivities in May.

Baccalaureate will be held at 4 p.m. May 12 in the Lees Hall gymnasium. The ceremony is open to all students, families and friends, and Cedar Crest College faculty and staff. Tickets are not required. The Class of 2017 dinner and awards ceremony will follow the service and is in Canova Commons and the Alumnae Hall Auditorium.

“On the Crest of the Future”, the 147th commencement, will begin at 10:30 a.m. May 13 on the campus quad. Students, faculty, staff, college President Carmen Twillie Ambar; Molly Barker, founder of Girls on the Run, will be the commencement speaker. Tickets are required.

For more information, visit www.cedarcrest.edu/commencement.

Brennan inducted

Julia Brennan, of Bethlehem, has been inducted into Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society.

To be selected, the Cedar Crest College undergraduate had a minimum of two college courses in English language and literature beyond the usual requirements in freshman English; a minimum of a B or equivalent average in English and in general scholarship (a 3.0 on a 4.0 scale); ranks at least in the top 35 percent of her class, and completed at least three semesters or five quarters of college course work.

For more information, visit www.cedarcrest.edu. The college is located at 100 College Drive, Allentown, 18104.

Northampton Community College

National ranking announced

Northampton Community College was named by The Center for Digital Education as one of the top 10 large community colleges for its effective deployment of technology in a 2016-17 survey.

This is the fourth consecutive year the school was in the top 10 based on how the college used technology to improve services to students, faculty, staff and the community at large.

NCC’s five focus areas are leadership in technology, student outreach, student success, community engagement and diversity, and global engagement.

New Choices classes begin May 15

Northampton Community College will offer a new choices career decision-making class from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays from May 15 through June 8 at the Fowler Family Southside Center, 511 E. Third St.

The class is designed to help homemakers reentering the job market, adults who are changing jobs or returning to school to explore and clarify their career goals and develop a job-search plan that includes resume writing and interview practice.

There is no charge for the class. For more information, call 610-332-6560.

Academic honors awards presented

Several local residents were honored for exceptional academic achievement April 27 at Northampton Community College.

The convocation ceremony students and their awards are, from Bethlehem: Ryan Armbruster, the Trustee Leadership award, the Pearson Education award and the Outstanding Academic Achievement in Chemistry award; Álvaro R. Belmonte, the Math award; Kylie P. Buscemi, the Northampton Community College Service Learning award; Carsia C. Christian, the Institute of Management Accounting award; Tyler Matthew Fernandez, Norman R. Roberts Theatre Scholarship Fund award; Mark A. Crenshaw, the Hites Family Foundation Higher Education Endowment Scholarship; Dalia Garcia, the Hites Family Foundation Higher Education Endowment Scholarship; Kenan Meral, the Liberal Arts award; Raicha Kamara Nadjarathou, Honors Program award; and Jazmin Nicole Ortiz-Zervos, Lehigh and Northampton Association for the Education of Young Children; and from Hellertown: Camille Kacerik, the Marconi award for Radio/TV.

Northampton Community College’s main campus is located at 3835 Green Pond Road. The Fowler Family Southside Center is located at 511 E. Third St. For information, call 610-861-5000 or visit www.northampton.edu.