Elizabethtown College receives $1.375 million grant from RACP

Elizabethtown College has been awarded $1.375 million from Pennsylvania’s Redevelopment and Capital Assistance Program (RACP).  

Along with donor and internal funds, the grant will help E-town College transform learning spaces to meet the expansion of health related-programs in the School of Sciences. The total cost of improving and connecting the Anatomy and Physiology (A&P) Classroom and a Cadaver Laboratory is estimated at $2.75 million. 

“Elizabethtown College is thrilled to be the recipient of a Redevelopment and Capital Assistance Program (RACP) grant,” Elizabethtown College President Betty Rider said in a statement. “Continued workforce demand and enrollment growth of our health-related programs including the recent additions of Physician Assistant (PA), RN to BSN, and Exercise Science programs, contributes to the need to expand facilities and technology designed to support collaborative active-learning spaces.” 

This renovation project is projected to begin in late spring 2023. It is designed to provide students with hands-on, discovery-based learning opportunities that can be used in graduate school or in the workforce. 

Elizabethtown College School of Sciences Dean Jodi Lancaster said there are more than 500 students enrolled in the college’s health-related programs and majors, and that the number continues to increase. 

“An important part of man of these majors is learning firsthand about anatomy and physiology by being exposed to and learning from cadavers,” said Lancaster. “Improvement of these labs will significantly enhance educational opportunities for many of the College’s undergraduate students.”