York College of Pennsylvania
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York College of Pennsylvania (York College or YCP) is a private
, coeducational, 4-year college
located in southcentral Pennsylvania. The school offers more than 50 baccalaureate majors in professional programs, the sciences, and humanities to its 4,600 undergraduate students. The college also offers master's programs in business, education, and nursing, along with a doctoral program in nursing.
was started in 1776 by Rev. John Andrews, D.D. and established and incorportated in 1787 as the York County Academy. In 1929, the Academy merged with the York Collegiate Institute, allowing further growth of both schools. But up until 1941, a true college curriculum had yet to be established. It was in 1941 that the school's charter was amended, transforming it from a center for education into a "two-year liberal arts school." At this point, the school began to outgrow its campus, forcing a move outside of downtown York
. In 1965, the current campus, located in Spring Garden Township was dedicated. The former occupier of these lands was a local country club and golf course that had gone bankrupt before selling its property. By 1968, York established an accredited four-year bachelor's degree program, and officially became the York College of Pennsylvania. The college sits near the historic center of the city and has some residence halls located in the city
, which known as the fourth national capital of the United States of America and the birthplace of the Articles of Confederation
. YCP has students from 31 states and 34 countries.
, lounge, and college bookstore are located. The major academic buildings are the newly renovated Wolf Hall, formally known as the Music, Art, and Communications (MAC) building, housing the MAC Department, Recital Hall, and Art Gallery. Campbell Hall sits in the center, with renovations made to its chemistry labs and classrooms. The Appell Life Sciences Building is next door, housing most of the Social Sciences department, and the Playpen Theatre. Adjacent to the Life Sciences complex is the Business Administration Building, teaching of course all things business related. Schmidt Library resides as the figurehead building of the campus, being directly in the center of main campus academic life and houses a large collection of books, periodicals including both scholarly journals and popular magazines, a popular reading collection, the Information Literacy classrooms and a rotating display of student art.
The recently completed Performing Arts Center (PAC) and Humanities Center occupy the space between the Schmidt Library and Student Union. These new facilities consist of one building, built on the site of the old Wolf Gymnasium and including a 720-seat main theatre, black box theatre, scene shop, green room, costume shop, breakout spaces, a mezzanine level, 14 classrooms, 40 faculty offices, computer labs, a film screening room, and more.
The other buildings on campus include the Miller Administration Building and the adjacent Manor Complex (Manor North, Northeast, East, West, and South) which serves as the living quarters of many on-campus freshmen students. Manor Northeast is the newest of the residence hall and was opened in 1998. The campus tennis courts reside nearby with Tyler Run Apartments being a short walk from here as well. Across the small bridge over the picturesque creek which snakes through the campus lay the main commuter parking lots and the other dormitories as well as apartments. Beard Hall, Penn Hall, Codorus Hall, Susquehanna Apartments for upperclassmen and the mini-dorms. The Mini-Dorms, low occupancy residence halls, consist of Willow, Laurel, and Evergreen, named for the surrounding plant/tree life in the area. Beyond there is the campus chapel, the President's house (the two oldest buildings on campus), baseball and softball fields, the old track, and the playing fields for most club sports, especially rugby. Greek Life surrounds the campus, with many being a short walk from most major buildings. Many off-campus upperclassmen live on the neighboring streets outside the college in historic townhouses.
McKay Hall houses York's upper tier Nursing and its Sports Management curriculum. Not too far from that is the smaller Grantley Hall composed of general-use classrooms as well as the office of the Spartan Newspaper.
The West Campus residential quad consists of Richland Hall, Spring Garden Apartments, Brockie Commons, Country Club Apartments and Little Run Lodge, a suite style residence hall complex which includes a student center with a dining facility, central mailboxes, multipurpose space, tv lounges, game room(s) and other special features.
In back of the Kinsley Engineering Center is Northside Commons. It is a 171-unit, five-story residence that houses 275 students in single and double bedrooms. The air-conditioned building will house a mix of freshmen and returning students, and will also include lounge and common space for residents to use.
The Kings Mill Depot, located across the train tracks from Northside Commons, houses the College's J.D. brown Center for Entrepreneurship, a local business incubator, as well as various service facilities for the college.
A center of affordable academic excellence, York College is dedicated to the intellectual, professional and social growth of its students. The College helps them develop a concrete plan to attain academic growth and career success; encourages them to try in the “real world” what they learn in the classroom; and prepares them to be professionals in whatever career they pursue. Emphasis is placed on an outstanding teaching faculty, the majority of whom hold doctorates or other terminal degrees. Graduates enjoy a 90% career placement rate. The college was listed among the top third of 100 "Colleges Worth Considering" nationwide by The Washington Post.
York College is also the host campus for WVYC
, Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) and YCP Rhapsody, York's only a cappella singing group, as well as over 80 other clubs and organizations.
The study focused on what these business professionals expected from and experienced with first-year employees who were college graduates.
In the survey, respondents indicated what they consider to be unprofessional. Topping the list of unprofessional traits are inappropriate appearance (39.1%), poor communication skills including grammar (38.9%), a poor work ethic (37.0%), poor attitude (28.3%), being disrespectful and inconsiderate (27.4%), and demonstrating a sense of entitlement (16.6%). Responses indicate that human resources and business professionals believe "soft" skills are lacking in new college graduates.
When the CPE conducted the national poll again in 2010, researchers expanded the base of respondents. Along with surveying more than 400 business leaders and human resources professionals nationwide, the survey also asked current college students from around the country and recent graduates the same questions about professionalism. Even with these changes, the results of the 2010 poll were similar to the results from 2009. The 2010 CPE poll reaffirmed the findings that new employees continued to be concerned with advancement opportunities and that information technology etiquette among recent college graduates was not improving.
York College uses findings from the study to guide the development of co-curricular programs on professionalism.
as 13th in the Baccalaureate Colleges of the North category for 2010 and is named a Best Northeastern College by The Princeton Review
. The college has is also included in Barron's Best Buys in College Education and is ranked by Parents and Colleges as 8th on its list of Top 10 Best Value Private Colleges and Universities.
Fraternities:
Alpha Delta Gamma
(AΔΓ)
Alpha Chi Rho
(AXP)
Zeta Beta Tau
(ZBT)
Kappa Delta Rho
(KΔP)
Kappa Delta Phi
(KΔΦ)
Tau Kappa Epsilon
(TKE)
Phi Kappa Psi
(ΦKΨ)
Phi Sigma Phi
(ΦΣΦ)
Sororities:
Alpha Sigma Tau
(AΣT)
Delta Phi Epsilon
(ΔΦE)
Theta Phi Alpha
(ΘΦA)
Sigma Delta Tau
(ΣΔT)
Phi Mu
(ΦM)
Phi Sigma Sigma
(ΦΣΣ)
York College also hosts the Alpha Zeta Chapter of the Phi Sigma Pi
(ΦΣΠ) National Honor Fraternity.
team, though it does have many conspiracy theories and tales regarding the program's absence. One such tale holds that the game was banned by a former board member of the college after his son suffered a fatal concussion during a football game. The college book store does sell "York College Football" t-shirt
s and hoodie
s. On the back of these it reads "Undefeated since 1787". These are one of the more popular clothing items sold by the York College Bookstore.
Private university
Private universities are universities not operated by governments, although many receive public subsidies, especially in the form of tax breaks and public student loans and grants. Depending on their location, private universities may be subject to government regulation. Private universities are...
, coeducational, 4-year college
Liberal arts colleges in the United States
Liberal arts colleges in the United States are certain undergraduate institutions of higher education in the United States. The Encyclopædia Britannica Concise offers a definition of the liberal arts as a "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general...
located in southcentral Pennsylvania. The school offers more than 50 baccalaureate majors in professional programs, the sciences, and humanities to its 4,600 undergraduate students. The college also offers master's programs in business, education, and nursing, along with a doctoral program in nursing.
History
The basis of today's, York College of PennsylvaniaYork College of Pennsylvania
York College of Pennsylvania is a private, coeducational, 4-year college located in southcentral Pennsylvania. The school offers more than 50 baccalaureate majors in professional programs, the sciences, and humanities to its 4,600 undergraduate students...
was started in 1776 by Rev. John Andrews, D.D. and established and incorportated in 1787 as the York County Academy. In 1929, the Academy merged with the York Collegiate Institute, allowing further growth of both schools. But up until 1941, a true college curriculum had yet to be established. It was in 1941 that the school's charter was amended, transforming it from a center for education into a "two-year liberal arts school." At this point, the school began to outgrow its campus, forcing a move outside of downtown York
York, Pennsylvania
York, known as the White Rose City , is a city located in York County, Pennsylvania, United States which is in the South Central region of the state. The population within the city limits was 43,718 at the 2010 census, which was a 7.0% increase from the 2000 count of 40,862...
. In 1965, the current campus, located in Spring Garden Township was dedicated. The former occupier of these lands was a local country club and golf course that had gone bankrupt before selling its property. By 1968, York established an accredited four-year bachelor's degree program, and officially became the York College of Pennsylvania. The college sits near the historic center of the city and has some residence halls located in the city
York, Pennsylvania
York, known as the White Rose City , is a city located in York County, Pennsylvania, United States which is in the South Central region of the state. The population within the city limits was 43,718 at the 2010 census, which was a 7.0% increase from the 2000 count of 40,862...
, which known as the fourth national capital of the United States of America and the birthplace of the Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that legally established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution...
. YCP has students from 31 states and 34 countries.
Campus
York College is currently located on three campuses with the majority of its academic buildings on the Main Campus, a few on its more recently built West Campus and the engineering center on its incomplete North Campus. Despite the college's extensive history, all the buildings on campus are less than 50 years of age with the majority of them being built during the 1960s. The buildings utilize a standard red brickwork style, enhanced with white marble on some buildings.Main Campus
The central buildings include the Robert V. Iosue Student Union building where several offices, gathering halls, the cafeteria, campus radio station WVYCWVYC
WVYC is a college radio station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to serve the community of York, Pennsylvania, USA. The station broadcasts from the Robert V. Iosue Student Union Building on the campus of York College of Pennsylvania in York...
, lounge, and college bookstore are located. The major academic buildings are the newly renovated Wolf Hall, formally known as the Music, Art, and Communications (MAC) building, housing the MAC Department, Recital Hall, and Art Gallery. Campbell Hall sits in the center, with renovations made to its chemistry labs and classrooms. The Appell Life Sciences Building is next door, housing most of the Social Sciences department, and the Playpen Theatre. Adjacent to the Life Sciences complex is the Business Administration Building, teaching of course all things business related. Schmidt Library resides as the figurehead building of the campus, being directly in the center of main campus academic life and houses a large collection of books, periodicals including both scholarly journals and popular magazines, a popular reading collection, the Information Literacy classrooms and a rotating display of student art.
The recently completed Performing Arts Center (PAC) and Humanities Center occupy the space between the Schmidt Library and Student Union. These new facilities consist of one building, built on the site of the old Wolf Gymnasium and including a 720-seat main theatre, black box theatre, scene shop, green room, costume shop, breakout spaces, a mezzanine level, 14 classrooms, 40 faculty offices, computer labs, a film screening room, and more.
The other buildings on campus include the Miller Administration Building and the adjacent Manor Complex (Manor North, Northeast, East, West, and South) which serves as the living quarters of many on-campus freshmen students. Manor Northeast is the newest of the residence hall and was opened in 1998. The campus tennis courts reside nearby with Tyler Run Apartments being a short walk from here as well. Across the small bridge over the picturesque creek which snakes through the campus lay the main commuter parking lots and the other dormitories as well as apartments. Beard Hall, Penn Hall, Codorus Hall, Susquehanna Apartments for upperclassmen and the mini-dorms. The Mini-Dorms, low occupancy residence halls, consist of Willow, Laurel, and Evergreen, named for the surrounding plant/tree life in the area. Beyond there is the campus chapel, the President's house (the two oldest buildings on campus), baseball and softball fields, the old track, and the playing fields for most club sports, especially rugby. Greek Life surrounds the campus, with many being a short walk from most major buildings. Many off-campus upperclassmen live on the neighboring streets outside the college in historic townhouses.
West Campus
At the center of West Campus sits the spacious Grumbacher Sport and Fitness Center (names in honor of the Grumbacher's, who own The Bon-Ton Company in York, PA), a 160000 square feet (14,864.5 m²) complex featuring the Charles Wolf Gymnasium, a 1,712-seat arena hosting varsity competition in men's and women's basketball, volleyball and wrestling; an eight-lane competitive pool with instructional areas and 1- and 3-meter diving boards; a three-court field house; spacious locker room facilities; a climbing wall; cyber cafe; wireless network access throughout the building and a fitness area that spreads out over 7600 square feet (706.1 m²).McKay Hall houses York's upper tier Nursing and its Sports Management curriculum. Not too far from that is the smaller Grantley Hall composed of general-use classrooms as well as the office of the Spartan Newspaper.
The West Campus residential quad consists of Richland Hall, Spring Garden Apartments, Brockie Commons, Country Club Apartments and Little Run Lodge, a suite style residence hall complex which includes a student center with a dining facility, central mailboxes, multipurpose space, tv lounges, game room(s) and other special features.
North Campus
The Kinsley Engineering Center (Kinsley Construction is the largest construction company in York, PA) features a large common project work space area to be used by the Mechanical, Electrical and Computer Engineering disciplines. The building also features many gathering points for students to meet in small work groups or in social settings. The building was converted from a Red Tape Factory; it is LEED certified silver and has open ceilings.In back of the Kinsley Engineering Center is Northside Commons. It is a 171-unit, five-story residence that houses 275 students in single and double bedrooms. The air-conditioned building will house a mix of freshmen and returning students, and will also include lounge and common space for residents to use.
The Kings Mill Depot, located across the train tracks from Northside Commons, houses the College's J.D. brown Center for Entrepreneurship, a local business incubator, as well as various service facilities for the college.
Academics
York College offers its more than 50 undergraduate majors through ten academic departments.A center of affordable academic excellence, York College is dedicated to the intellectual, professional and social growth of its students. The College helps them develop a concrete plan to attain academic growth and career success; encourages them to try in the “real world” what they learn in the classroom; and prepares them to be professionals in whatever career they pursue. Emphasis is placed on an outstanding teaching faculty, the majority of whom hold doctorates or other terminal degrees. Graduates enjoy a 90% career placement rate. The college was listed among the top third of 100 "Colleges Worth Considering" nationwide by The Washington Post.
York College is also the host campus for WVYC
WVYC
WVYC is a college radio station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to serve the community of York, Pennsylvania, USA. The station broadcasts from the Robert V. Iosue Student Union Building on the campus of York College of Pennsylvania in York...
, Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) and YCP Rhapsody, York's only a cappella singing group, as well as over 80 other clubs and organizations.
Center for Professional Excellence
The Center for Professional Excellence (CPE) was created in 2009 as part of an effort to strengthen the college’s long-standing focus on training students in professionalism as well as in liberal arts. The CPE is guided by an advisory board of human resources and business executives from the private sector as well as faculty and staff from the college. The CPE has two purposes:- to develop and conduct a regional and national poll that captures what current employers consider to be characteristics of professionalism; and
- to assist the college in developing co-curricular programs that develop professional characteristics in students.
National Poll
In the summer of 2009, a national study of 520 human resources professionals and business leaders was conducted by Polk-Lepson Research Group.The study focused on what these business professionals expected from and experienced with first-year employees who were college graduates.
In the survey, respondents indicated what they consider to be unprofessional. Topping the list of unprofessional traits are inappropriate appearance (39.1%), poor communication skills including grammar (38.9%), a poor work ethic (37.0%), poor attitude (28.3%), being disrespectful and inconsiderate (27.4%), and demonstrating a sense of entitlement (16.6%). Responses indicate that human resources and business professionals believe "soft" skills are lacking in new college graduates.
When the CPE conducted the national poll again in 2010, researchers expanded the base of respondents. Along with surveying more than 400 business leaders and human resources professionals nationwide, the survey also asked current college students from around the country and recent graduates the same questions about professionalism. Even with these changes, the results of the 2010 poll were similar to the results from 2009. The 2010 CPE poll reaffirmed the findings that new employees continued to be concerned with advancement opportunities and that information technology etiquette among recent college graduates was not improving.
York College uses findings from the study to guide the development of co-curricular programs on professionalism.
Rankings
The college is ranked by U.S. News & World ReportU.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report is an American news magazine published from Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek it was for many years a leading news weekly, focusing more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories...
as 13th in the Baccalaureate Colleges of the North category for 2010 and is named a Best Northeastern College by The Princeton Review
The Princeton Review
The Princeton Review is an American-based standardized test preparation and admissions consulting company. The Princeton Review operates in 41 states and 22 countries across the globe. It offers test preparation for standardized aptitude tests such as the SAT and advice regarding college...
. The college has is also included in Barron's Best Buys in College Education and is ranked by Parents and Colleges as 8th on its list of Top 10 Best Value Private Colleges and Universities.
Social organizations
Fraternities and Sororities comprise 15% of overall York College students. The following organizations are represented.Fraternities:
Alpha Delta Gamma
Alpha Delta Gamma
Alpha Delta Gamma National Fraternity is an American Greek-letter social fraternity and one of 74 members of the North-American Interfraternity Conference...
(AΔΓ)
Alpha Chi Rho
Alpha Chi Rho
Alpha Chi Rho is a men's collegiate fraternity founded on June 4, 1895 at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut by the Reverend Paul Ziegler, his son Carl Ziegler, and Carl's friends William Rouse, Herbert T. Sherriff and William A.D. Eardeley. It is a charter member of the North-American...
(AXP)
Zeta Beta Tau
Zeta Beta Tau
Zeta Beta Tau was founded in 1898 as the nation's first Jewish fraternity, although it is no longer sectarian. Today the merged Zeta Beta Tau Brotherhood is one of the largest, numbering over 140,000 initiated Brothers, and over 90 chapter locations.-Founding:The Zeta Beta Tau fraternity was...
(ZBT)
Kappa Delta Rho
Kappa Delta Rho
Kappa Delta Rho is an American college social fraternity, with 77 chapters spread out over the United States, primarily in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions...
(KΔP)
Kappa Delta Phi
Kappa Delta Phi
Kappa Delta Phi is a college general men's fraternity that was founded on April 14, 1900 at the Bridgewater Normal School, now known as Bridgewater State University...
(KΔΦ)
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Tau Kappa Epsilon is a college fraternity founded on January 10, 1899 at Illinois Wesleyan University with chapters in the United States, and Canada, and affiliation with a German fraternity system known as the Corps of the Weinheimer Senioren Convent...
(TKE)
Phi Kappa Psi
Phi Kappa Psi
Phi Kappa Psi is an American collegiate social fraternity founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania on February 19, 1852. There are over a hundred chapters and colonies at accredited four year colleges and universities throughout the United States. More than 112,000 men have been...
(ΦKΨ)
Phi Sigma Phi
Phi Sigma Phi
Phi Sigma Phi is a US national fraternity founded on July 30, 1988. There are now 11 chapters of Phi Sigma Phi nationwide. The current National President is Shawn Head.-History:...
(ΦΣΦ)
Sororities:
Alpha Sigma Tau
Alpha Sigma Tau
Alpha Sigma Tau is a national Panhellenic sorority founded on November 4, 1899, at Michigan State Normal College...
(AΣT)
Delta Phi Epsilon
Delta Phi Epsilon (social)
Delta Phi Epsilon is an international sorority founded on March 17, 1917 at New York University Law School in New York City...
(ΔΦE)
Theta Phi Alpha
Theta Phi Alpha
Theta Phi Alpha women's fraternity was founded at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor on August 30, 1912. Theta Phi Alpha is one of 26 national sororities recognized in the National Panhellenic Conference...
(ΘΦA)
Sigma Delta Tau
Sigma Delta Tau
Sigma Delta Tau is a national sorority and member of the National Panhellenic Conference, was founded March 25, 1917 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The original name, Sigma Delta Phi, was changed after the women discovered a sorority with the same name already existed...
(ΣΔT)
Phi Mu
Phi Mu
Phi Mu is the second oldest female fraternal organization established in the United States. It was founded at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. The organization was founded as the Philomathean Society on January 4, 1852, and was announced publicly on March 4 of the same year...
(ΦM)
Phi Sigma Sigma
Phi Sigma Sigma
Phi Sigma Sigma , colloquially known as "Phi Sig," was the first collegiate nonsectarian fraternity, welcoming women of all faiths and backgrounds...
(ΦΣΣ)
York College also hosts the Alpha Zeta Chapter of the Phi Sigma Pi
Phi Sigma Pi
Phi Sigma Pi is a national coeducational honor fraternity based in the United States. The fraternity is a 501 not-for-profit organization incorporated in the state of Pennsylvania, with the purpose of fostering the ideals of scholarship, leadership and fellowship...
(ΦΣΠ) National Honor Fraternity.
York College Football
York College does not have a footballAmerican football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
team, though it does have many conspiracy theories and tales regarding the program's absence. One such tale holds that the game was banned by a former board member of the college after his son suffered a fatal concussion during a football game. The college book store does sell "York College Football" t-shirt
T-shirt
A T-shirt is a style of shirt. A T-shirt is buttonless and collarless, with short sleeves and frequently a round neck line....
s and hoodie
Hoodie
A hoodie is a sweatshirt with a hood. The characteristic design includes large frontal pockets, a hood, and a drawstring to adjust the hood opening. They are sometimes worn with sweatpants. Some hoodies have zippers on them to allow easy removal much like a jacket...
s. On the back of these it reads "Undefeated since 1787". These are one of the more popular clothing items sold by the York College Bookstore.