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Virtual trips, online fun-and-games help keep PSC students in touch during shutdown
The PSC Robinson Honors Program is doing what it can to keep students entertained, engaged and connected.
PSC to offer weekend, late night classes to help students work around COVID-19
PSC will offer weekend and late night live online weekday math and computer science classes during the summer term, which begins May 11.
Pensacola State College Visual Arts students dominate at ADDY Awards
Five PSC students captured seven Gold ADDYs during the District 4 competition, which includes colleges and universities in Florida and the Caribbean.
Strike up the band for a farewell to Don Snowden
Performing Arts head Don Snowden retires this summer after 33 years at Pensacola State College.
PSC student’s essay about TRIO’s Penny Taylor wins them each $1,000
Julie Riser’s essay on Penny Taylor is one of three national winners of the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development’s (NISOD) Student Essay Contest. For the win, both Julie and Taylor will each receive $1,000 and the college will receive a complimentary NISOD membership.
Pensacola State College donates medical protective gear to area health care facilities
Pensacola State President Ed Meadows helped Warrington campus officials load boxes upon boxes of masks, gowns, gloves and other protective gear into a College vehicle on Friday for donation to area healthcare facilities to be used in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic fight.
Student services still are available at Pensacola State
Pensacola State College summer registration is right around the corner and the Student Services department is here to meet students’ needs – virtually.
‘Zoom Crew’ rallies to expand Live Online instruction throughout the College
As soon as the coronavirus threatened to block Pensacola State College students and faculty from classrooms, administrators developed an emergency plan to move courses online. Fortunately they had a team of instructors already well-versed in the Live Online (synchronous online) realm, a team that could be deployed to teach other instructors and professors, a team that soon became known as the “Zoom Crew.”
PSC students and faculty adjust to online conversion – and do a little cooking too
Pensacola State College’s Robinson Honors Program students usually meet on Mondays. But with the COVID-19 pandemic closing campuses, the honors students had to adjust like everyone else. So, honor student Julie Riser showed her fellow students how to make turkey chili, using Zoom interactive technology to let her classmates follow her live.
PSC’s eLearning Department ensures smooth transition to online
Bill Waters retires in July. The Pensacola State College eLearning Department director came to the college in 1999, and has seen how the internet revolution has changed life, and learning. But he’s never seen anything like what’s happened in 2020 with the COVID-19 pandemic altering life across the globe in a matter of months.
Manna Food Pantries donates food to feed PSC’s most vulnerable students
Manna Food Pantries donated 33 banana cases filled with food staples to Pensacola State College on Tuesday, April 7, in response to a survey of students needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Manna is prepared to follow PSC’s initial distribution to students with additional deliveries.
Pensacola State able to meet challenges in uncertain times, says college president
Pensacola State College President Ed Meadows speaks to Troy Moon in his office on the Pensacola campus, where he has been during much of the COVID-19 pandemic, steadying the Pirate ship amid a sea of worldwide turmoil.