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WARREN, Pa. – The Viewpoint short-form documentary series hosted by Dennis Quaid has selected Northern Pennsylvania Regional College for an exclusive opportunity to be featured on national public television.
The upcoming season of the series, titled ‘Leaders in the Future of Community College Education,’ will feature the impact community colleges make in the United States.
The feature will include interviews with NPRC President Susan Snelick; NPRC Board of Trustees Secretary and local manufacturing company President/CEO Hank LeMeur Jr.; and NPRC students. The work is educational and informational to share with the country all about the difference NPRC is making in rural higher education in our region and beyond. Production will take place throughout the summer and the work will be showcased to a VIP audience during a special event taking place this fall.
“I’m absolutely thrilled that NPRC was chosen from a pool of ten potential higher education institutions from across the country to be featured on the Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid in their upcoming feature, ‘Leaders in the Future of Community College Education,’” Snelick said in a release. “We have something special here at NPRC that is receiving national recognition. I couldn’t be prouder of our team. When you support a community of caring, support, and creativity, amazing things ensue. Our students are our priority, and our dedicated faculty and staff encourage their learning each day. We are excited to be showcased and hope that word continues to travel about the benefits that NPRC brings to our region.”
Viewpoint is a short-form documentary series that is distributed to public television stations in all 50 U.S. states. The series strives to make meaningful documentaries and inspire audiences to act. Viewpoint cultivates each segment with an approach that adds value to people’s lives and aims to change the way people view educational programming. One of its goals is to enlighten the audience by delivering diverse informational and educational documentaries covering various issues and topics.
Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid features a creative team of tenured producers, writers, editors, and imaging specialists with over one hundred years of experience. Viewpoint’s staff has also received over one hundred Telly(c) awards over twenty years in the industry. Previous features on institutions of higher education, included Clemson University, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Georgia, Florida State University, Loyola University of Chicago, and the University of Notre Dame.
The overall Viewpoint project includes a three-to-five-minute educational segment produced as a standalone short-form documentary. This public television distributed segment has the potential to reach 60 million households in the United States over the course of a year.
