University Times

Pitt’s College of General Studies is moving its Monroeville satellite location from the Monroeville ExpoMart to Penn Center East on Route 22 in Wilkins Township. Four fall term classes are to be held in the new space.

The complex already is home to several other schools including the University of Phoenix, Waynesburg College and Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

CGS will share its newly remodeled space with the School of Social Work’s Mechanicsburg-based Pennsylvania child welfare training program. The child welfare program will use the classrooms by day; CGS will schedule evening courses at the Penn Center location.

Amenities available in the new classrooms include Internet access, a service unavailable at the ExpoMart location.

The initial schedule calls for classes Monday through Thursday evenings, but the offerings could grow to include Friday evening or Saturday courses as well, said Linda Howard, CGS director of extended education. The Penn Center space also could be expanded to accommodate three concurrent classes.

The Monroeville schedule for this fall has been set:

• Monday — David Korman will teach Public Law & Moral Reasoning;

• Tuesday — Cathy Misko will teach Society and the Law;

• Wednesday — Anna Halechko will teach Abnormal Psychology;

• Thursday — Carmen Diciccio will teach American Workers in the 20th Century.

Each class is scheduled to meet 7-9:30 p.m. Additional information on CGS courses is available online at www.cgs.pitt.edu/monroeville.cfm

CGS also has satellite locations at Mt. Lebanon High School and Butler County Community College but Howard said students reacted strongly to the prospect of losing a satellite site in the eastern suburbs when changes at the ExpoMart forced CGS to leave its leased space there.

Many of the students who take CGS classes off campus are staff members who want the option of taking evening courses close to their homes, she said.

An open house in the new space is set for 10 a.m.-3 p.m. July 26 in Room 412, Penn Center East Building #4.

—Kimberly K. Barlow