Elizabethtown, PA Kristen Paporello of Newton, a junior elementary education major was named to the dean’s list at Elizabethtown College for the fall 2006 semester. Students earning a semester grade point average of 3.5 or better in nine or more credit hours of letter-graded coursework are placed on the dean’s list. Ranked as one of the best colleges in the northern United States by U.S. News and World Report, Elizabethtown offers its 1900 students 53 academic programs in the liberal arts, sciences and professional studies. Driven by its motto to “Educate for Service,” Elizabethtown centers learning in strong relationships, links classroom instruction with experiential learning, emphasizes international and cross-cultural perspectives and nurtures the capacity for lives of purpose.