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Hawkins Promoted to Associate State Director of Financial Management at PASBDC

Pennsylvania Small Business Development Center (PASBDC) announced the promotion of Susan Hawkins as the associate state director of financial management. Previously, Hawkins was the Kutztown University SBDC assistant director of finance and special pro...

Aug 28, 2019, 8:51am EDT

Pfeiler-Wunder Receives National Art Education Foundation Grant

Dr. Amy Pfeiler-Wunder, professor of Art Education, has received one of only 14 grants awarded by the National Art Education Foundation (NAEF) this year. The grant, which totals $10,500, was awarded in collaboration with Dr. Shyla Rao, principal of Cit...

Aug 27, 2019, 1:13pm EDT

Kutztown University Ranked Among Best Colleges for Student Voting by Washington Monthly

Kutztown University was recently named to Washington Monthly's 2019 America's Best Colleges for Student Voting. KU was among 80 schools to be recognized from a pool of nearly 1,500 colleges and universities. This is KU's second-straight year of inclusi...

Aug 27, 2019, 12:02pm EDT

(L-to-R): Robert A. Fischer, executive vice president market leader – PA West Region; Sonya Smith, PA SBDC associate state director of program and policy; Joseph Schupp, senior vice president-community development officer.

Customers Bank Donates $55,000 to KUSBDC to Support Minority Small Businesses in Reading

Customers Bank recently donated $55,000 to the Kutztown University Small Business Development Center (KUSBDC) to support resources for minority small businesses in Reading. The donation will help minority entrepreneurs with strategic planning to improv...

Aug 26, 2019, 11:18am EDT

KU to Celebrate Unity Day Aug. 29

Kutztown University will celebrate Unity Day at 11 a.m., Thursday, Aug. 29, on Schaeffer Lawn. Dr. Kenneth S. Hawkinson, university president, along with university leaders, representatives from the student body, the community and other campus official...

Aug 26, 2019, 9:04am EDT

KU Set to Kick Off 2019-2020 Academic Year

Kutztown University opens the 2019-2020 academic year with special events Friday, Aug. 23 - Sunday, Aug. 25. Classes begin Monday, Aug. 26. Media interested in attending events should contact Bryan Salvadore, KU director of communications, at salvad...

Aug 19, 2019, 9:32am EDT

Kutztown University Names Kim O'Neill Assistant Dean of College Of Business

Kim O'Neill has been appointed assistant dean of Kutztown University's College of Business. O'Neill comes to KU from the University of Washington (UW) Bothell, where she worked for several years. She began her tenure at KU Aug. 5. In her role at KU,...

Aug 15, 2019, 8:38am EDT

Screenshot of new university website home page

Kutztown University Launches New Website

Kutztown University is excited to announce the launch of our brand-new website! Www.kutztown.edu features a new design and technology that improves the user experience. The responsive design is mobile-friendly across all browsers and incorporates th...

Aug 13, 2019, 9:06am EDT

Dr. Kenneth S. Hawkinson, University President, and Joshua Leiboff, Director of Web and Digital Media

Joshua Leiboff Named KU Employee of the Month for June 2019

Congratulations to Joshua Leiboff, director of Web and Digital Media, on being named KU Employee of the Month for June 2019. Leiboff's nomination from Arian Hungaski, clerk typist II, College of Business, reads: "I was identified as the point per...

Aug 9, 2019, 2:17pm EDT

KU Observatory Discovers New Exoplanet

Kutztown University's Observatory has discovered another exoplanet, KELT-23Ab. The discovery was featured in an article in the Astronomical Journal with KU student Daniel Johns, undergraduate physics and astronomy major, and his advisor Dr. Phill Reed,...

Aug 8, 2019, 1:00pm EDT

About Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

Comprising four colleges - Business, Education, Liberal Arts and Sciences and Visual and Performing Arts - Kutztown University of Pennsylvania offers a wide range of outstanding academic programs to prepare individuals for successful careers.

Located on 289 acres, the campus is adjacent to the Borough of Kutztown in Berks County, Pennsylvania.

Enrollment at the university includes 8,500 students from more than 20 states and nations. There are 362 tenured/tenure-track instructional faculty and boast a favorable 20:1 student-faculty ratio. Eighty-eight percent of KU faculty have doctorates or terminal degrees.

Kutztown University was founded in 1866 as Keystone Normal School. The school became Kutztown State Teachers College in 1928, Kutztown State College in 1960 and achieved university status in 1983.

Kutztown University is a member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.