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[artsy_122]

Wondering if anyone has any experience with this school?  With the area?

[airball]

4-4 load, fair to middling students.

I have a friend in the history department, and he seems quite content. York itself seems kind of depressed, but there are lots of nearby options if you don't mind a commute.

[harlow]

I have a friend who lives in York--if you like the outdoors there is great hiking (Appalachian Trail and many, many others). It's a beautiful area. Baltimore is within easy reach. He describes the area as quite conservative, but has made many friends and is happy there.

[artsy_122]

Thanks so far...

The website does not have much info.  Does anyone know anything about tenure standards?  Is there support for research (I realize it is mostly a teaching school with a 4-4)? 

How about campus life???

[systeme_d_]

A former student teaches there.  The normal load is 4/4, and research expectations are rather low.  They hire ABD regularly.  The emphasis is on teaching, so there is not a lot of research support, but my former student is dedicated to publishing her way out anyway.  She did have some travel funds to defray the cost of her last trip to our discipline's annual conference, but it did not come close to covering the full cost.

She likes her colleagues, but she says the humanities are kind of ancillary there.  The college is rather focused on career-prep, and the ed and nursing programs are popular.

York is closest to Harrisburg, and Lancaster is also kind of close, but the college itself is on the border of West Virginia and PA, so you can drive to Baltimore in an hour.

[imawakenow]

A former student teaches there.  The normal load is 4/4, and research expectations are rather low.  They hire ABD York is closest to Harrisburg, and Lancaster is also kind of close, but the college itself is on the border of West Virginia and PA, so you can drive to Baltimore in an hour.

My guess is that you mean Maryland rather than West Virginia. York is about 25 minutes straight north of the Maryland border, and it's a straight shot down I-83 to Baltimore (about an hour depending on traffic).

Sorry I can't help on York College, though.

[systeme_d_]

Thanks, Imawakenow!  I did indeed mean Maryland.

[yellowtractor]

York city, like Lancaster city and Harrisburg, is a bit of a grimy, post-industrial mess; actually, the New York Times had an article on York just a few days ago (concerning the election of the city's first Black mayor, and the legacy of the race riots there decades ago).

York Co. is quite nice in the a Pennsylvania Dutch kind of way.  Very green, lots of dairy farms.

I'm also no help on the college itself, including campus life.  My (vague, quite possibly erroneous) impressio was that it is primarily a commuter school.