NCC

The following students were named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at Northampton Community College, Bethlehem.

Allentown: Angela Budesheim, liberal arts, Eric Budesheim, engineering, Jennifer Collado, medical assistant, Dakota Fenstermaker, hospitality management: hotel option, Maritza Figueroa, early childhood education: infant to grade four, Matthew Gabel, computer aided design, Peter Isaac, business administration, Jeffrey Jaindl, radiography, Sophia Le, interior design, Angelia Molina, health care billing and coding, Marielle Odom, business administration, Katelyn Schoelles, social work, and Carly Zeller, radiography;

Breinigsville: Daniel DeJoie, computer science, Cheryll Flecha, biological science, Sorelly Germosen, general studies, Niveditha Kannadaguli, secondary education: mathematics and science, and Arturo Merced, automotive technology;

Fogelsville: Benjamin Rohrbach, computer information technology: computer security, and Jacob Stahl, architecture;

Kutztown: Jennifer Dries, communication design, print/web option;

New Tripoli: Taylor Kelchner, radiography, and Susan Spencer, liberal arts, environmental studies;

Orefield: Elizabeth Leibenguth, criminal justice;

Schnecksville: Morgan Ettlinger, radiography, Erin Heintzelman, funeral service education, Alanna Le, general studies; and

Trexlertown: Cody Gross, automotive technology.

The honor is reserved for students who have completed a minimum of six credits and achieved at least a 3.5 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale.

Muhlenberg

With help from colleagues and a tech-savvy student, Muhlenberg College’s Assistant Professor of Italian Daniel Leisawitz and Italian Lecturer Daniela Viale spent the summer creating their own digital textbook for the course.

Spunti: Italiano Elementare 1 is an Open Educational Resource, which means it is publicly available online, not just for classroom or personal use, but also to be adapted by creators of other OERs or used as-is, for free, by instructors at other institutions.

Jarrett Azar, ’20, from Fogelsville, a computer science and studio art double major, who is also a digital learning assistant, and Senior Instructional Design Consultant Tim Clarke used images, videos and Microsoft Word files from Leisawitz and Viale to build Spunti.

Azar said he was glad to be involved in this initial project.

“I knew what an OER was before, but I’ve grown a lot in wanting them to be a big initiative on Muhlenberg’s campus,” he said.

“Something that’s always been important to me is trying to eliminate those secondary costs of college.”

Given Muhlenberg’s strong tradition of faculty-student collaboration, Clarke anticipates faculty exploring OERs may want to involve students in the process of adapting existing content and creating new content to be used in the classroom.

King’s

Kyle Friebolin of Neffs, a student at King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, was recently selected to attend the college’s 14th annual McGowan Business Forum in Philadelphia.

The forum allowed students to network with King’s alumni and other professionals.

It was followed by a dinner and the presentation of the fifth annual Father James Lackenmier, C.S.C., Award for Achievement and Leadership.

Friebolin is a junior management major.

He has made the dean’s list and participated in both the Target Case Competition and the Marketing Echo Competition.

He is a catcher for the college’s baseball team and a member of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee.