Fulton Bank Award for Best Overall Townhome 750 E. King Street, Lancaster, PA 17602 2018 MyFutureCareer.us Annual Report
For the second consecutive year, the Thaddeus Stevens Home StevensCollege.edu Construction Program was recognized and awarded seven top awards in the Building Industry Association’s 2018 Parade of Homes. Each year, students in the construction programs build two townhouses. Carpentry, Masonry, Plumbing, Cabinetmaking, HVAC, and Construction Electrical students work together on this capstone project to hone their skills before graduation. They build the homes from the ground up, gaining outstanding experience as they prepare to enter their profession.
The houses feature excellent craftsmanship and attention to detail. It is no wonder the faculty and students once again earned the 2018 Parade of Homes Fulton Bank Award for Best Multi-family Home. Located on Eddington Way, near Comet Field, the house was a popular attraction on the BIA Parade of Homes tour in June. We are very appreciative of PPL Electric Utilities who sponsored our entry into the show. Thanks also to the 34 companies that provided materials, supplies, fixtures, hardware, and services to support this educational project. The following businesses graciously supported this year’s homes. Thank you for your partnership.
A Work of Art Painting LLC Martin CFS Butz Sign Co. Moen Drake Reed Door Co. Penn Stone Dun- Rite Sand & Gravel Co. PPL Electric Utilities EP Henry Premier Custom-Built Cabinetry Fessenden Hall, Inc. Quality Stone Veneer, Inc. Frey Lutz Corp Reading Foundry & Supply Co. Glen-Gery Corp Rohrer’s Concrete Grand Masterpiece Design Rude Design + Build Studio GR Mitchell Sherwin Williams Excellence is Earned Groff & Groff Lumber Sue Kauffman & Co. Hegeman’s Landscape and The Clinton Team Tree Service, Inc. United Electric Supply Hohman & Barnard, Inc. Victory Closets HVAC Distributors Weiler Walls, Inc. Keystone Cement Co. Yale Electric Supply Co. Kwikset/Weiser/ Yeager Supply, Inc. Baldwin Reserve York Building Products Lehigh Cement Co. Lowes - East Lancaster
Message from the President
The theme for this year’s annual report by a factor of 4 to 5 in the most critical the problem. When performance is above is Excellence is Earned. Excellence is performance areas. These recognitions the norm, the root causes are also defined asthe quality of being were earned through a rational and identified and implemented across the Effort, excellence and altruism outstanding or extremely good. intentional system of performance organization. This process is incessant Thaddeus Stevens College continues management and continuous and relentless, resulting in continuous to earn national recognition for its improvement. Excellence is improvement that increases the College’s Frank Greiner reflects excellence. For the second year in a row, a journey, not a destination. It requires institutional effectiveness and enables it the College was ranked 9th by Forbes on constant effort, assessment, planning, to better fulfill its mission. Hanging on the wall outside the conference room in the its list of top two-year technical and implementation, evaluation, career colleges in the country. The Aspen communication, and accountability. The lead story in this year’s annual report corporate headquarters of Greiner Industries is a newspaper Institute, an educational and policy about Frank Greiner and Greiner clipping from 1998 featuring Frank Greiner Jr., the studies organization in Washington, DC, The College achieves excellence by Industries is a perfect example of continues to rate Thaddeus Stevens evaluating every activity area with excellence earned through a journey of company’s President and CEO. Next to his photo is a large College of Technology as among the objective performance measures derived hard work and continuous improvement. nation’s top 10 percent of two-year US from its mission. Performance standards The other stories in this year’s report, as quote: “Settle for nothing less than excellence.” colleges, a designation the College has are established, and significant variations well as the data included, also exemplify earned since the inception of the Aspen above or below the norms are this year’s theme. It’s a good summary of Greiner’s 50-year career—growing a Institute rating program. In addition, immediately flagged and research conducted to determine the root causes. Thanks to all our donors and partners for welding business from a one-car garage to a world class based on the United States Department their support in helping the College If performance falls below an acceptable steel fabrication company and, now, establishing a college of Education’s IPEDS data, the College is achieve excellence and fulfill its mission. out-performing its benchmark institutions level, then strategies for improvement are developed and implemented to correct Best Regards, campus that bears his name.
William E. Griscom, Ed.D. President 1
Frank Greiner reflects Prepare for work. Prepare for life.
Ironically, he never intended to open his own largest job-shop structural steel fabrication shop. He expected to take over managing company in the area with some 280 Garman Welding, where he worked for nearly employees—all of whom know their boss’s a decade in the 1960s and ’70s. But he was history. passed over for the promotion. “It’s huge for the employees to know that he “Back in 1976,” when he opened his shop in can do the work, that he’s done the work,” Mount Joy, Pa., ”The economy was not very says James Gillespie, the company’s business good. It was not the best manager. He tells the story of a particularly time to go into business.” challenging welding project the company “Settle for won in the mid-1980s at the Baltimore So Greiner outworked his International Airport. Try as they might, none nothing competition. He had of the company’s welders could pass enough work from farmers inspection. less than and excavators to make a excellence.” living— necessary, because “And we had some excellent welders in those he put up his home and all days,” Frank says. After sending some his possessions as collateral $50,000 in aluminum to the scrap heap, to start the business. Greiner got behind the mask and completed “Back in the 80s and 90s, I’d bring in a new the job himself. piece of equipment and I’d have a bunch of “The excavators gave me a lot of work,” he guys who wanted to run it,” Greiner says. says. “They would run their equipment during “It goes back to my time at Garman,” he says. “Now, things are so high-tech, sometimes I the day, and then I would repair at nighttime. “We were welding aluminum in the late 60s, can’t find anyone. That makes it hard to They really liked that, because they could and other shops wouldn’t touch it.” grow.” use their equipment and they didn’t have down time.” Gillespie says employees also see and That’s where Greiner felt his philanthropy appreciate how much Greiner reinvests in the could be a win-win. In the meantime, he built a small 30,000 business. Since moving to the new site in square foot shop along Route 230 where he 1986, the company has added millions in This winter, he will celebrate the opening of could get back into custom metal fabrication. equipment and facilities, including a machine the new, state-of-the-art Greiner Campus for For about 10 years, Greiner worked all day, shop, crane division, blasting and painting Advanced Manufacturing at Thaddeus went home around 5 p.m. for dinner, and facility, and vehicle maintenance garage. Stevens College of Technology. The campus returned to the shop to work until 11 p.m. bears his name after he, and his wife Sharon or so each evening. Looking to the future, Greiner sees continued committed $1 million as a lead gift to the growth for a number of his divisions and college’s capital campaign. “In those days, I could go on five hours of hopes to break ground soon on a new sleep,” he laughs. “I can’t do that anymore.” three-story home for his corporate offices. “The trade has been good to me,” Greiner says. “I want others, especially young people, Greiner is living proof that hard work pays “Frank is a visionary,” Gillespie says. to have the opportunity to do what I’ve been off. Today, his company is situated on a able to do over my career. 200-acre industrial complex with more than The challenge, both Greiner and Gillespie 440,000 square feet under roof. It’s the admit, is finding enough workers to fulfill “And,” he adds with a smile, “we’d like to hire their workload and run their new equipment. more Thaddeus Stevens grads.”
2 3 Alumni profiles
For William Fuhrmann, ‘57, Every so often, Robert Fanelli, ‘59, wakes Thaddeus Stevens was a “liberation” up in the middle of the night raking leaves
In his teenage years, Bill Fuhrmann lived in an After graduation, Bill worked with a local The sensation is a byproduct of his time as an Soon Bob felt burnt out by the grind of touring orphanage in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, where contractor building houses. But his time at electrical student at then Stevens Trade with a band and wanted more time with his conditions became unstable. As a Stevens created an itch for further education. School. Several times a year, each student took kids. He went into sales and marketing at lower-income student who enjoyed working He soon received a B.S. in Industrial Arts from on a series of tasks for the faculty and staff as Johnson & Johnson, where he climbed with his hands, Bill sought out a place that Millersville University and an M.F.A. in part of their personal growth. Bob vividly through the ranks of management during would accept, respect, and help him build Metalsmithing and Jewelry from the Cranbrook remembers taking turns in the furnace room a long career. upon his success in public school shop class. Academy of Art in Michigan. Along the way, he and raking leaves around campus, until his taught at several high schools, the Boston arms were sore. He says he owes a lot of his confidence, Thaddeus Stevens, then known as Stevens Museum School of Fine Arts, and Southern growth, and maturity to Stevens and the Trade School, provided that home. He found Illinois University. He says these experiences, among others, opportunity to be around so many smart, himself surrounded by caring people who instilled a strong sense of self-worth and work capable instructors and classmates. showed him the steps to living a happy, That drive for perfection he experienced at ethic. They helped him transition from high productive, and full life. Those steps didn’t Stevens led him down a path of accolades and school to continued education, and ultimately, “These guys could look at something and always come easily, however. As Bill began success. Early in his career, he received an to enter the workforce. know what to take apart first and how to put it taking courses in carpentry and American Crafts Council grant after being all together again,” he recalls. “It’s amazing to cabinetmaking, he was quickly doused with a named a “Promising Young Artist.” He also “I wasn’t a very good student in high school,” see. And you learn good logic and common cold dose of reality. won several regional and national awards Bob says. “I learned how to study and do sense; you develop an aptitude for something. across the US, most recently from the homework at Stevens with the prodding of They really were brilliant.” One of his first assignments involved truing a Northeastern Woodworkers Association good teachers who took an interest in me rough board—cutting and planing the board exhibits in Saratoga, New York. personally. All of my instructors were really As for the future of Thaddeus Stevens College into precisely dimensioned pieces then very good at getting me to understand why of Technology, Bob says he’s proud of their fashioning them into precise joints—all with His Stevens experience ultimately provided learning is important. … It was like a boot camp new mission and transition into the 21st hand tools. him the platform to emerge from his for three years.” century. He’s sure that every kind of Thaddeus challenging childhood circumstances and student, no matter what experience they had “I was devastated to the point of tears when I discover a bright future. His exemplary From Stevens, Bob went on to earn a B.S. and in high school, will have the opportunity to find first took my assignment into the instructor’s experience now motivates him to give back to M.S. in Music Education from West Chester and apply themselves at Thaddeus Stevens. office and he chucked it into the wastebasket current students in whatever way possible, to University. He became a high school music and told me to try again,” Bill recalls. “I thought help the school continue to provide the same teacher and toured the country as a jazz “The world needs intelligent craftsmen. With it was perfect, but he wanted my mortise and level of comfort and expertise he encountered. musician in a band called “The Teachers” in his everything computerized now, it’s a whole “Being pushed to tenon joint to ‘pop’ when he pulled it apart.” early career. The Teachers appeared on several different world with technology,” Bob says. “The world needs perfect his skills “Working with one’s hands as well as the mind TV programs including the Mike Douglas Show “Stevens places people in jobs quickly, and intelligent craftsmen. allowed Bill to develop Despite the frustrations he experienced, he is healthy in and of itself,” Bill says. “Students and The Tonight Show. [Stevens is] really good at making money With everything a strong work ethic chose to turn those tears into fuel for the who go into the fields offered by Stevens will for people.” computerized now, it’s that carried him future. Being pushed to perfect his skills find out that they become valued and valuable a whole different world through the rest allowed Bill to develop a strong work ethic that people in society.” with technology.” of his career.” carried him through the rest of his career.
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New Technology Brings Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Thaddeus Stevens College has earned a Electro-Mechanical Technology Replicates Mobile Technology Increases Options reputation for excellence by keeping pace Factory Floor Troubleshooting The Electronic Engineering Technology with industry trends and providing students The Electro-Mechanical Program’s Industry program and the Learning Resource Center with an education that is relevant in the Advisory Council urged the faculty to replace (LRC) also received additional new laptops modern technical workplace. In recent years, all their classroom desktop computers with for student use. The additional hands-on mobile technology — computer laptops and laptops, and helped with project fundraising. experience with tablets and laptops as part tablets — has become as essential to the “Factory maintenance technicians today of students’ tool kits enhances their technician’s toolbox as the tape measure and bring their mobile devices to the factory floor preparation for employment. Put simply, the carpenter’s level. To ensure that to diagnose and repair production students now have more skills. graduates are well prepared, Thaddeus equipment,” Instructor Don Dagen says. “It Stevens has integrated laptops and tablets in was important that the College prepare select program labs and classrooms. future technicians to work in such environments.” Architectural Technology Mimics Paperless The laptops’ portability allows students to Mobile Office work closer to the Programmable Logic The College purchased 16 Apple iPad Pro Controller (PLC) boards—a key part of Project Funders tablets for use in the Architectural troubleshooting. Students and faculty reap Technology program. “Within the last two the benefits of this minor shift in every class. William & Gemima years, the architectural industry has reached Their lab now more fully reflects how Brossman Charitable a performance level where architects can industrial maintenance technicians work. Foundation truly function with a paperless mobile office. “The impact has been striking!” says Dagen. The College can now begin to simulate that Instructor Art Jackson concurs. Carpenter environment,” Instructor Tedd Williams says. The students love the change too. “With so Technology Corp. The devices allowed Williams and fellow much of our work being dependent on instructor James Hamrick to transform their internet connection,” one student says, “the Dart Foundation teaching and students’ learning. Students use ability to be mobile with it in both the shop the tablets to access several apps developed and the classroom is incredibly helpful.” Robert J. Gunterberg specifically for the architect’s workflow. Small Charitable Foundation groups of students can share information in a “I think the best impact for our students is collaborative environment. The technology yet to come as teams build their capstone ONExia, Inc. significantly reduces the feedback loop so project,” Dagen says. “When students begin crucial in the program’s educational tasks. those projects, the bulky desktop computers “Ensuring that each student graduates from will no longer limit them.” Steven’s Architectural Technology Program with specific industry-aligned skillsets is our number one priority,” Williams says. Excellence is Earned 6 7
Five years on Excellence is Earned
More than two of every five Salaries of Stevens grads graduates responded to the surge in first few years surveys, which were administered in the summer five years after 41% on the job, data show each graduating class. (For response rate example, 2018 for the class of (industry standard 10-20%) After graduating from Thaddeus Stevens 2012; 2017 for the class of 2011, Questions you College with a degree in plumbing, Zane Rudy, etc.) The response rate is more should ask a college ’10, went to Millersville University. Not to study, than double the 10 to 20 percent 54% though. He was beginning his apprenticeship average increase average that studies say is typical with Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 520. He in base salary over five across higher education. 1. What percent of students worked on the university’s expansion of the years after graduation who start in a major Student Memorial Center. Institutionally, graduates saw an average 54 pharmaceuticals. She twice considered leaving percent increase in their base salary during to pursue other opportunities, only to have the graduate within four years? He was making about $400 a week, but he 23% the five-year period after graduation. That company counteroffer to keep her. She is could tell he was already doing well. share of graduates wage growth is more than making about 60 percent continuing their education at 2. What percent of those who “When I got there, I started working with the double the growth in median “Graduates from all of our more than she was right out some point after graduation graduate work directly in tools right away, working alongside the household income over the programs can tell stories of college. journeymen, all the processes I learned at same period and four and a half like Zane, Kelsey, and Josh. their field of study? “I have Thaddeus Stevens to Stevens,” he recalls. “I was a couple steps times inflation. That’s why parents and 53% thank for everything,” she ahead of the other guys.” prospective students should share of graduates with 3. What is the median annual “Having both one-year and says. “The professors are ask hard questions before no student loan debt starting salary for those A journeyman since 2015, Rudy says he makes five-year graduate employment choosing where to continue wonderful—[CAD between $80,000 and $110,000 a year, data is critical to maintain the their education after high instructors] James Knapp graduates and how much validity of our programs’ and Don Hart have done 44% depending on the type of work and amount of school. If an education are they earning five overtime. success,” says Laurie Grove, institution cannot provide wonders for me. They really share of graduates Director of Career Services at good answers, it might be prepared us for the real who are homeowners years after graduation? “I make very good money for what I do,” he Thaddeus Stevens, whose time to look elsewhere.” world.” says, which has included a great deal of office conducted the surveys. –Laurie Grove welding at places like the Three Mile Island “It’s important for parents and Likewise, Josh Kenny, ’11, 54% increase in employer nuclear plant and Kellogg’s. “I have a great prospective students to see who has seen a 62 percent recruitment at Thaddeus benefits package and retirement. My goal is to how valuable a two-year degree or certificate growth in salary while earning a promotion to Stevens from 2015 to 2018 be done when I’m 56, thanks to our retirement in a high-demand field can be compared to a Head of Residential Design at Forino, a and annuity plans.” four-year degree in a field where few, if any, construction company based in Berks County. jobs actually exist.” Thaddeus Stevens “has changed my life,” he 2x Rudy is not alone among Thaddeus Stevens number of in-demand, high-skill, graduates. This year the college released its The data mirror Kelsey Haldeman’s experience says, “Honestly. Being a Stevens Grant student high-wage jobs available to our first composite data from surveys of grads five since graduating with a CAD degree in 2013. and having no school debt whatsoever has students and graduates across years after leaving Stevens. In general, the data She’s now Design Department Supervisor at been a huge load off. I have been able to start Pennsylvania from 2015 to 2018 show that the value of a Stevens degree grows Pelletron, designing plastics processing a family and buy a home. Without Stevens, I rapidly in the job market. plants—anything from recycling to would not have been able to do that.”
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All six technician-track students chosen full time, before they ever enter the college Excellence is Earned to participate were incoming Thaddeus classroom. Our faculty have seen a difference Stevens freshmen. in the level of engagement of those students who participated in the internship program ■ Dalton Kreider (Lampeter-Strasburg High compared to students who have had no School) – Electro-Mechanical Technology introduction to a technical workforce prior to starting college.” participate in its Technical Services High ■ Matthew Kreider (Solanco High School) School Internship program. Locally, twelve – Electro-Mechanical Technology Braden Redcay, class of ’20 Mechanical spots were open for 12 interns at the Engineering Technology major, says, ■ Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station (six Aaron Wright (Solanco High School) “One of my biggest takeaways was how engineering students pursuing a four-year – Electro-Mechanical Technology Exelon stressed the importance of safety. degree; and six technician students pursuing No matter what industry I end up working ■ Levi Cramer (Coatesville High School) an associate degree). in, I will be a safer worker because of my A Head Start to a Successful Career – Electro-Mechanical Technology experience at Exelon.” Students chosen for the program had to be ■ Elvis Laguerre (McCaskey High School) high school graduates who would be incoming The experience reaches beyond a standard – Electronic Engineering Technology Excellence is Earned college freshmen in fall 2018, pursuing a internship. It allows the students to develop a technical degree in one of the high-demand ■ (Solanco High School) relationship and stay connected with their though Creative programs at Thaddeus Stevens. During the Braden Redcay – mentors, if they choose. Interns pictured left to right: Dalton Kreider, summer between high school and college, Mechanical Engineering Technology Partnership Ideas Aaron Wright, Levi Cramer, Braden Redcay, they would receive a five-week rotational Aaron Wright, a Solanco High School graduate Elvis Laguerre, Matthew Kreider internship that introduced them not only to Elvis Laguerre, a McCaskey graduate who is majoring in Electro-Mechanical Technology, Today’s industries and employers are the energy industry but also the departments currently majoring in Electronic Engineering loved being able to have the opportunity to desperate to fill their workforce gaps as baby and jobs available at Exelon. Technology, interned in Exelon’s I&C work in his trade. “This five-week internship boomer retire and advanced technology Maintenance Department. “The Exelon allowed me to expand on the knowledge I requires higher skills for entry into most fields. “We’re trying to get people interested in environment was enjoyable and the gained at the Lancaster County Career & the Exelon Generation Women in STEM To meet the challenge, companies are getting energy, says Francesca Hughes, Exelon opportunity for a career path is great,” says Technology Center and learn new information,” Scholarship to provide tuition support for creative. Since they are not finding enough recruiter. “We wanted to start as early as Elvis. He observed and participated in various says Wright. “One of the things that made it so two female students in Computer Integrated recruits coming out of college, they are shifting possible, so we started to educate and recruit activities within the department, going nice was the atmosphere that is there, as Machining, Electrical Technology, Electro- their recruiting efforts to younger generations the future workforce in high school.” The through the safety procedures and exploring everybody is so friendly and helpful, Mechanical Technology, or Electronic in an attempt to groom students now for their ultimate goal is for Exelon to attract and retain the plant and its functions. “The experience especially the people on the team I was Engineering Technology. workforce needs in the future. these students as full-time employees once was insightful, and I feel like I’m a step ahead assigned to.” For more than 40 years, Exelon Nuclear has they complete their degrees. of my classmates. I’m able to apply what I’ve A few companies are turning to high schools. been a part of Delta, Pennsylvania and its learned from the experience to the classroom.” Exelon Nuclear has been a supporter of Exelon Nuclear is one such company. This past In May 2018, Thaddeus Stevens’ Career Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology surrounding communities. They provide summer, Exelon created its own pipeline of Services and Enrollment Services worked “It’s a powerful and enriching experience for for years, providing summer internship hundreds of well-paying jobs and millions future workers. Locally, they teamed up with together to send Exelon internship information these students,” says Laurie Grove, Director of opportunities to its college students, EEI of dollars in economic support, including Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology to to 161 incoming freshmen students pursuing Career Services for Thaddeus Stevens. “They testing/training, and full–time employment $1.5 billion in taxes annually for schools, roads, groom the next generation of future college one of the following high-demand programs: see first-hand what it will be like for them to many of our graduates. In 2017, Exelon and other public services. Thaddeus Stevens students, and skilled workers. Computer Integrated Machining, Electrical when they ultimately enter the workforce Generation of Kennett Square established looks forward to a continued partnership Technology, Electro-Mechanical Technology, with Exelon. That’s right. For the first time, Exelon Electronic Engineering Technology, and Corporation started reaching out and Mechanical Technology. recruiting high school seniors nationwide to Prepare for work. Prepare for life.
10 11 Donor profile: UGI Excels in Partnership Dear Friends,
A full tuition scholarship is now a reality for experience to successfully pursue a technical On behalf of the Thaddeus Stevens many and varied initiatives of the one student studying welding, plumbing, or career. We are proud to partner with Thaddeus electrical technology at Thaddeus Stevens, Stevens on this initiative.” Foundation, I wish to thank you for College, including student scholarship thanks to the generosity of UGI Rick’s memory lives Utilities and its employees. The Christian says the on by helping your generous support during the funds, acquisition, and development Reading-based natural gas and scholarship will make a big students receive a electric utility company difference in more ways quality education 2017-2018 fiscal year. Annual of land for the new home established the endowed Richard than one. “Receiving the with the skills and donations have increased construction project, fundraising A. Bouder Memorial Scholarship scholarship will relieve a lot experience to in honor of employee Rick of the stress of paying for successfully pursue significantly, and we greatly campaigns for special projects and Bouder, who lost his life my education,” he said. “I’m a technical career. responding to an incident in strongly considering using appreciate this wonderful show of programs, and much more. Lancaster County in July 2017. this degree to become a gas utility worker.” Rick, a native of Lancaster support by each individual, Rick Bouder’s family, friends, and fellow UGI County, was a 1981 graduate of All of these advancement initiatives McCaskey High School. employees also have made donations to the corporation, and foundation Bouder scholarship. In addition to individual are possible because of your support Christian Strother, a second-year donations from Rick’s co-workers, a bowling represented in this report. plumbing major, received the first fundraising event, with all proceeds donated to and dedication. Your gifts really do scholarship, covering the full cost the Bouder scholarship, was held in the Christian Strother is flanked by of his tuition for the 2018-2019 summer of 2018. The event celebrated Rick’s As the charitable arm of Thaddeus make a difference in the lives of our Respectfully, academic year. Christian is a Dean’s List memory and his lifelong love of bowling. Kim Bouder and Hans Bell after Stevens College of Technology, the students and the ever-expanding they presented him with the student who graduated from Penn Manor “This scholarship strengthens the already first Richard A. Bouder High School in Millersville. strong collaboration between Thaddeus Thaddeus Stevens Foundation future of Thaddeus Stevens College Memorial Scholarship award. Alex B. Munro Stevens College and UGI which has been “We are proud to present the Inaugural Executive Director Bouder Scholarship to such an outstanding growing in significance since at least 2011,” said continuously works to support the of Technology. Thank you! student,” Keith Dorman, UGI Vice President, Stevens President William Griscom. Thaddeus Communications and Community Relations, Stevens has enjoyed UGI’s charitable said. “The Bouder Scholarship ensures that contributions, EITC donations, as well as time Rick’s memory lives on by helping students volunteered by Company employees. receive a quality education with the skills and
Please note: Donations listed in this annual report were received during the fiscal year July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018. 12 Excellence is Earned 13 Tuition and Fees 27% Federal Grants and Contracts 1% State, Local, and Other Grants and Contracts 2% Auxiliary Enterprises 1% Non-Operating Revenues 69% 100%
2017-2018 Revenues Thaddeus Stevens benefactors invested over $414,501 in annual sponsorships help support the building College of Partners in Support and endowed scholarships. These were construction and purchase of additional awarded to 67 students during the annual equipment. Technology2017-2018 Revenues Student-Donor Scholarship Dinner. Various Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology new scholarships were funded this past year, Also this past year, 27 companies and The following combined financial report including the Rice Family Foundation, Exelon individuals donated in-kind gifts of equipment represents summaries of both Thaddeus Generation, UGI’s Richard Bouder Memorial, or materials valued at over $134,042 to our Stevens College of Technology and the Gene Haas Foundation, and Lancaster Mold. technical program laboratories or projects. Thaddeus Stevens Foundation. It recognizes As part of Manufacturing Day, a nationwide In February, the College’s annual career fair The largest in-kind gift values were donated 27% only funds received in-hand from grants, celebration each October, Thaddeus Stevens attracted more than 350 companies in The Stevens Foundation Annual Golf Scramble by Marcom Central (software), Yurchak financial gifts, in-kind equipment and supplies collaborates with dozens of Lancaster person and online, recruiting for nearly at Crossgates Golf Club realized over $12,150 in Printing (digital press) and GSM Industrial donated during the 2017-18 fiscal year that employers to demonstrate engaging 1,000 open positions. More than 50 of the net proceeds from the outing and silent (storage equipment). 1% ran from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018. manufacturing careers to school-age employer representatives were Thaddeus auction. Stevens’ alumni in seven companies 69% 1% Donations received after July 1, 2018 will be students. Stevens graduates. had their annual alumni gift matched through The College continued to receive funding from 2% recognized in next year’s 2019 Annual Report. their company’s Corporate Matching Gift a federal multi-year National Science We are very appreciative of the significant programs. Foundation/ATE grant. The College additionally financial support from many alumni, friends, received funding from other sources, including was another program students in 2017-2018. The need continues faculty, staff, businesses, industries, Tablets for Tool Kits The Home Construction program continues to a PA Department of Environmental Protection Tuition and Fees initiated this past year. The goal is excellence in to grow as more students are engaging in foundations, organizations, the be a major part of the College’s construction mini-grant and related grants from Lancaster Federal and State Grants teaching and learning by adding the mobile this program. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and other trades education with second-year students County Conservancy Water Week Grant State, Local and Other Grants governmental agencies—state and federal— technology increasingly found in industry to from six programs participating. Again this past Program and the City of Lancaster, a $109,000 and Contracts Under the PA DCED Educational and for the commitment each one has made our classrooms and laboratories. The initiative year, the duplex was built on Eddington Place PA Department of Labor & Industry Tech grant, Auxiliary Enterprises Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Program, to Thaddeus Stevens College and Foundation also provided more laptops for student use in on the outskirts of Lancaster Township off Rt. a $1,000 donation from the DUI Council of Non-Operating Revenues companies can direct a portion of their during the past year. the Learning Resource Center. These laptops 471 near Comet Field. 36 companies partnered Lancaster County, a Department of Education business taxes directly to local educational help low-income students (50 percent of our with the College and provided financial Act 101 grant of $188,426, and a Perkins grant 3% improvement initiatives. This past year, 12 Funding received from various sources students) who can’t afford to buy their own support, building materials, and other services of $142,325. The College also received companies contributed $138,850 through this provided academic and educational program laptops and are at risk of falling behind. We are for the homes. For the second consecutive agreements for future reimbursements from 2017-2018 Expenditures by Category program that supports the college’s K-12 STEM Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology support, laboratory equipment, technology very appreciative of the donors who provided year, PPL sponsored our entry into the the American Welding Society Foundation and 3% initiatives. Our largest gifts came from UGI tools, student support and scholarships, facility a total of $49,100 in grants during this past Lancaster Building Industry Association’s a United Way Collective Impact grant in Utilities, Rodgers and Associates, and The Buck Expenditures By Category upgrades, and other campus-wide support year. This was a major step in meeting a Parade of Homes. We again earned the top cooperation with the Lancaster County Company. An additional six companies and Salaries 38% toward the quality education offered at continuing need. award: Fulton Bank Award Multi-Family Home. Workforce Development Board. fin foundations donated non-EITC money of Thaddeus Stevens College. Partnerships with We also received seven awards in the Benefits 31% 31% offers students opportunities in $66,500 to Stevens STEM programs including businesses and organizations continued to Skills USA Multi-Family Home Division I category, SuppliesWe & are Other grateful Services to the Commonwealth of 25% 25% developing and practicing the technical and our STEM in Gear program that uses a box grow, some of which are featured throughout including Best Bath, Kitchen, Exterior, Interior Pennsylvania and the residents of Pennsylvania employability skills they are learning in class. truck to bring portable equipment, curriculum, Utilities 3% this annual report. Design, Decorated, and Landscaping. for their continued financial support of the Students compete on a regional, state, national, and hands-on activities to schools, libraries, DepreciationCollege through a state appropriation to the 3% For the first time, we participated in and international level against students in their parks, community centers, expos, and other A Room Sponsorship Campaign was initiated College. Such support provides stability to our 100% Lancaster’s Extraordinary Give. Over $11,500 specialty area from other colleges and trade sites. Our other STEM programs include Adopt- for the Greiner Campus, which has facilities for College and opportunities for the students of 38% 3% was donated to the Stevens Foundation on schools. Participation requires a financial a-Kindergarten, STEM Summer Experience three programs: HVAC, Computer Integrated this Commonwealth who may not otherwise that one day of giving. On that day, the investment from each student, and the higher Camps for middle grade students, and Dual Machining (formerly Machine Tool), and Metal be able to receive education and training to 3% College collaborated with the Lancaster they advance through the competition, the Enrollment/Early Enrollment program for high Fabrication/Welding (MFWT). Several major enter the technical workforce. 3% Science Factory to offer a free children’s STEM costlier it becomes for them. This year, the school seniors. corporations and foundations have Salaries Fair with free admission to the Science college established a Skills USA Fund, which contributed to support these facilities and the To all our benefactors this past year, we thank 1 Benefits Our private programs continue to Factory. Stevens faculty and students led assists students to pay their share of the costs scholarship equipment. Numerous other companies have you for your investment as we partner Supplies and Other Services grow in support of student needs and the hands-on activities for children and other to participate at all levels. Three companies also committed to sponsor classrooms, together to continue Thaddeus Stevens Utilities college’s increasing enrollment. In the 2017-18 guests. It was a huge success for both contributed $8,600 to support our Skills USA computer rooms, offices, labs, and storage College’s distinction as a college where Depreciation FY, individuals, foundations, and business organizations. areas. The funds raised through these Excellence is Earned. 14 15