Elizabethtown College Awarded $1.375 Million Grant from Pennsylvania’s Redevelopment and Capital Assistance Program (RACP) for Health-Related Learning Spaces

Recently, Elizabethtown College was awarded $1.375 million from Pennsylvania’s Redevelopment and Capital Assistance Program (RACP). The grant along with donor and internal funds will help the College transform learning spaces to meet the expansion of health-related programs in the School of Sciences. The total project is estimated to cost $2.75 million and will improve and connect both the Anatomy and Physiology (A&P) Classroom and a Cadaver Laboratory.

“Elizabethtown College is thrilled to be the recipient of a Redevelopment and Capital Assistance Program (RACP) grant,” Elizabethtown College President Betty Rider said. “Continued workforce demand and enrollment growth of our health-related programs including the recent additions of the 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.”

Etown has long been recognized for providing students with opportunities to learn from and work with cadavers and providing these opportunities early in students’ college careers.

“More than 500 Elizabethtown College students are currently enrolled in health-related programs and majors, and this number keeps growing,” Elizabethtown College School of Sciences Dean Jodi Lancaster said. “An important part of many of these majors is learning firsthand about anatomy and physiology by being exposed to and learning from cadavers. Improvement of these labs will significantly enhance educational opportunities for many of the College’s undergraduate students.”

This renovation project, expected to begin in late spring 2023, is designed to provide Etown students with hands-on, discovery-based learning opportunities that will serve them well in the workforce or in graduate school.

Elizabethtown College has long been a hiring resource for health professions in our region and has invested heavily in building these programs that meet student interest and workforce development needs. Learn more about the School of Sciences at Etown.