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Butler County Community College received a $3 million gift, the largest in its 58-year history and the seventh of at least $1 million in the past nine years. The late Tim Shaffer, a former state senator from Prospect, left half of his estate to the BC3 Education Foundation. Shaffer also contributed $1 million to the foundation in 2018.

Executives of two institutions of higher education in Mercer County announced the launch of a feasibility study that could result in the first Pennsylvania community college site to be located on a Penn State University Commonwealth Campus. The feasibility study will be led by academic and financial representatives to be selected from Butler County Community College’s additional location of BC3 @ LindenPointe in Hermitage and Penn State Shenango in Sharon. The study will explore opportunities for shared resources while educating each institutions’ students separately at Penn State Shenango.