EGCC HIRES: Eastern Gateway Community College has hired two new employees for grant-funded programs.
Marie Hall of Youngstown is the development education coordinator for the Development Education Initiative. The grant for the initiative - $743,000 during the next three years - is targeted to expand the college's remedial education programs to boost the college's completion rates for low-income students and minority students. The work is an outgrowth of the Achieving the Dream initiative, which carries the goal of helping students to succeed.
Hall is a former teacher in the Atlanta Public Schools and earned a master's degree from Clark Atlanta University and a bachelor's degree in business management from Pepperdine University.
She holds national board certification and a reading endorsement and is a member of the Georgia Association of Education and the National Association for the Education of Young children.
John Kula of Weirton was hired as new director for the TriO Upward Bound program, which targets high school students who meet potential first-generation college student status or federal income guidelines. Students receive assistance in planning for and successfully gaining admission to college after high school. Supplemental instruction, college visits and cultural/educational enrichment through field trips, workshops and other activities are used to meet the goal.
Kula was Upward Bound project director at Penn State University and Clarion University of Pennsylvania. He received the TriO Achiever Award from the Mid-Eastern Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel.
Kula is in his doctoral studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He earned his bachelor's degree in political science and history at Clarion and a master's degree in public affairs from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
His memberships include the National Academic Advising Association, Pennsylvania Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel, Pennsylvania Association of Development Educators and Pennsylvania Association for College Admissions Counseling.
HONOR: Mike Householder was named employee of the month for January at Eastern Gateway Community College.
He joined the staff as a technology specialist in January 2007. He is a graduate of the college, having earned two associate degrees in computer systems engineering and information technology. Householder holds an A-plus certificate, Microsoft certified system administrator certificate and a CISCO certified network associate certificate.
A resident of Wellsville, Householder is past president of the Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society.
TRADE FAIR: The Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual Member to Member Trade Fair and Business After Hours Event Thursday at Froehlich's Classic Corner, Fifth and Washington streets downtown. The event will run from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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