Enhancing Our Educational Quality

Nothing is more important than support for those who teach and those who learn at Alvernia. To that end, we are committed to enhancing our educational quality by seeking endowed gifts for professorships, faculty research fellowships, and other initiatives to attract and retain outstanding faculty members and help ensure teaching excellence.

Campus improvements, such as the new entranceway, are critical components of our master plan and key to our strategic decision to seek university status. So, too, are several important academic facilities projects. Expansion of the “learning commons” in the Franco Library and renovation of teaching and learning spaces, especially in Bernardine Hall, will continue the significant progress embodied by the new Upland Center and O’Pake Science Center.

Essential to enhanced educational quality is greatly expanded need- and merit-based scholarships to make an Alvernia education possible for talented students of diverse backgrounds. High quality private education is a great investment, but it does not come cheaply. Expanded scholarship support for deserving students helps make possible the personal and caring attention to individual students that is a hallmark of the Alvernia experience.