Campus News

Campus Tour Featured in Washington Monthly

9.3.2010
A story titled "Campus Tours Go Disney" in Washington Monthly's August college guide issue features York College's campus tour. Eric Hoover (of the Chronicle for Higher Education) wrote the piece on Jeff Kallay of TargetX, the company with which York's Office of Admissions worked to revamp and reinvigorate its campus tour. (Read all about the new tour in the Summer 2010 alumni magazine.) It seems that the changes are working, as campus visits are up 12% since last year, and the College has just enrolled its largest first-year class ever. ...

Event News

Humanities Lectures Series to explore ‘borders and boundaries’

8.31.2010
York College’s Humanities Lectures Series, “Borders and Boundaries,” will open with a discussion of colonialism and postcolonialism on Sept. 23. Ania Loomba, Catherine Bryson Chair in the University of Pennsylvania’s English department, will present “The Border and Boundary Between Colonialism and Postcolonialism” at 7 p.m. in the Humanities Center Room 218. The event is open to the public free of charge.             Loomba is also a member of the University’s faculty in Comparative Literature, South Asian Studies, Women’s Studies, and Asian-American Studies, and her courses are regularly cross-listed with these programs. Her publications include Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama; Colonialism/ Postcolonialism; and Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism. She has co-ed...

YCP in the News

London-Tashkent: 2 Geographers, One Iffy Car, and Miles of Teeth-Rattling Roads

7.18.2010 The Chronicle of Higher Education
Read about David Fyfe's latest adventures in a Chronicle of Higher Education story: It was the car that most concerned David A. Fyfe. The assistant professor of geography at York College of Pennsylvania had purchased the dilapidated Toyota Celica a few weeks earlier for only $150, sight unseen. In a few short days he and his onetime mentor, Tracy H. Allen, an associate professor of geography at the State University of New York College at Oneonta, would fly to London, kick the tires on their "banger," and drive it onto a ferry to cross the English Channel as one of 20 teams participating in the 2010 London-Tashkent Rally, a 5,000-mile drive across Europe and Central Asia....