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Misericordia University and Lackawanna College Presidents announce partnership
DALLAS, Pa. – The presidents of Misericordia University and Lackawanna College held a signing ceremony on June 2 to launch a new educational partnership that will offer adult students the only bachelor’s degree opportunity available on-site in Wayne County.
The Misericordia University Center for Adult and Continuing Education, in cooperation with Lackawanna College, will offer the Expressway Accelerated Degree Program in Hawley beginning in the fall of 2010. Classes will be held online and on-site one evening a week at Lackawanna College’s Lake Region Center (in the former Hawley Silk Mill) at 8 Silk Mill Dr., Hawley.
The signing ceremony included remarks by Raymond Angeli, Lackawanna College president, and Michael A. MacDowell, Misericordia University president. Among those in attendance were Joe Fabricatore, district project director for U.S. Representative Christopher Carney, 10th District, and Don Kyzer, president of the Hawley Borough Council.
A two-hour information session followed, allowing prospective students, including many Lackawanna College alumni, the opportunity to speak to Misericordia admissions counselors and academic advisors about the popular Expressway degree format. The Expressway program offers adult learners the opportunity to earn a bachelor’s degree in as little as two and a half years at convenient locations and at an affordable $320 per credit. Students can enroll eight times during the year, helping them fit shorter class sessions into their schedule.
Misericordia will start by offering bachelor’s degrees in both Business Administration and Professional Studies, and will expand academic offerings if there is interest.
The Misericordia Expressway Program was established in 1999 by offering bachelor’s degree courses one day a week at Luzerne County Community College (LCCC) in Nanticoke, Pa. The program has expanded over the years and is now also offered at the Northampton County Community College Monroe Campus in Tannersville, Monroe County; the LCCC Hazleton Center in Hazleton, Luzerne County; Lackawanna College in Scranton, Lackawanna County; and the LCCC Center in Shamokin, Northumberland County. The newest Expressway degree program, Government, Law and National Security, will be offered at the Lackawanna College Center in Hazleton beginning in August.
More information on the Misericordia Expressway Accelerated Degree Program is available by calling the Center for Adult and Continuing Education at (570) 674-6791 or by logging on to www.misericordia.edu/expressway.
Founded and Sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy in 1924, Misericordia University is Luzerne County’s first four-year college and offers 32 academic majors on the graduate and undergraduate levels in full and part-time formats.
 Photo caption: A signing ceremony and reception were held to kick-off the partnership between Misericordia University and Lackawanna College to offer the Expressway Accelerated Bachelor’s Degree Program at the Lake Region Center in the old Hawley Silk Mill. Shown, front row, from left: Raymond Angeli, president, Lackawanna College; Michael A. MacDowell, president, Misericordia University. Second row, from left: Atty. Anthony Waldron, III, owner/partner Hawley Silk Mill, LLC.; Mark Volk, executive vice president, and Bridget FitzPatrick, associate vice president for Advancement, Lackawanna College; Tun Kyaw Nyein, Ph.D., dean, Center of Continuing Education, Misericordia University; and Joe Fabricatore, district project director for U.S. Representative Christopher Carney, 10th District.
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