Chip Simmons, Escambia County Sheriff Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons will be the keynote speaker at the Pensacola State College Spring graduation ceremony at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 11, in the Pensacola Bay Center. Simmons earned his associate degree in criminal justice from Pensacola Junior College and was inducted into the Pensacola State College Distinguished Alumni…
Pensacola State College baseball player Andreaus Lewis II is going to Manhattan College in New York City to continue his collegiate playing career and to study business and finance. Perfect, since Manhattan is the world’s capital of business and finance. Never mind that Manhattan College isn’t actually in Manhattan – it’s in the adjacent Bronx…
Pensacola State College Charter Academy seniors presented their Capstone Projects on April 20 on the Warrington campus. Pensacola State College President Ed Meadows walked around the D.W. McMillan Auditorium on the Warrington campus, peppering PSC Charter Academy seniors with questions about careers ranging from veterinary science to creating video games to restoring old automobiles. Yes,…
Nearly 100 Pensacola State College students were honored for achievements in academics, leadership, service and volunteerism at the 2023 PSC Student Excellence Awards Ceremony on April 13 in the Jean & Paul Amos Performance Studio at WSRE-TV. The ceremony recognized Program and Department Scholars, Scholastic Achievement (3.9 grade point average or higher) and members of…
That was fun. Let’s do it again! Pirate Fest 2023 took over the Pensacola State College Pensacola campus on April 18 for a day of wacky fun, good food and fellowship. Hundreds of PSC students, faculty, staff, alumni and family members came out for a morning and afternoon of inflatable fun that delivered everything from…
Pensacola State College’s theater production of Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” received a Superior rating from the Florida College System Activities Association – Theatre Division. Raines Carr, theater director at Chipola College, was the adjudicator. Carr also recognized individual performers ─ Jolene Cintron, who played Jo March, Harley Furlong as Amy…
Little kids danced jigs to the music of McGuire’s Irish Pub Bagpipe Band. Other little ones pranced in the grass later, keeping rhythm with the joyous Italian dancers gliding across the stage. There was so much music, so much food, so much dance, and so much fun at Saturday’s inaugural Pensacola State College International Festival.…
Megan Rathmann with Brian Weaver Pensacola State College graphic design student Megan Rathmann won the coveted Anna Award at the 2023 Annual Student Art Awards Exhibition Awards Ceremony held April 13 in the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts. Graphic technology student Natalee Stuart’s linoleum print, “Meaningless Death,” won Best of Show. “We are…
April is Community College Month and we’re asking you to share your stories about Pensacola State College and how it helped to affect your life and reach your goals. For 75 years, Pensacola State College and its predecessor, Pensacola Junior College have helped build futures and change lives. PSC’s impact on our community is immense.…
It’s almost here! The first Pensacola State College International Festival is from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, April 15, on the Pensacola campus. The festival will feature food from various cultures, from German brats to Thai food to American-style barbecue. Musical entertainers include headliner Larry Watson, McGuire’s Irish Pipe Band, the MyxTape band, and…
Lyceum Student Series: Motel Radio The last three musical performances of the Spring 2023 Pensacola State College Lyceum series are this month. New Orleans-based indie rock band Motel Radio will perform on Wednesday, April 19, while Kahlo Quartet, a Philadelphia-based chamber music group that mixes traditional classical music with Latin American influences, will perform on…
Inflatable Human Foosball 38-foot Double Lane Bungee Run Nuclear Toxic Slime Battle Zone Joust Troy Moon Pensacola State College Ask around. I’m not the brightest guy. So, when I saw that Pirate Fest 2023 was going to feature something called “Human Foosball,” I put…
PSC Recruiting Coordinator John Solet leads incoming students through a tour on Tuesday, April 11. Incoming Pensacola State College soccer players Maddie Motes and Sidney Roest have already familiarized themselves with the practice pitch on the Pensacola campus. On Tuesday, April 11, Motes and Roest learned more about the non-soccer aspects of PSC. The recent…
Johnny Gazoo Johnny Gazoo knows the difference Pensacola State College can make in a person’s life. He’s hoping his time, work and effort at PSC will help him reach his goals – one of which is to go back and sit on the side of that Central American volcano. Gazoo and his wife moved from…
Applications for Fellows Foundation scholarships are being accepted through May 1. Available to students majoring in health care fields or the ministry, the scholarships will be awarded in July for the upcoming 2023-2024 academic year. The scholarships range from $1,000 to $10,000, and applicants can reapply each subsequent academic year. Medical School/Physician Assistant Students who…
PSC Coordinator of Student Engagement and Leadership Chandler White speaks with an incoming student at a Pensacola State College Resource Fair on April 11. Chandler White’s job is almost akin to that of a cheerleader coach/college mascot hybrid. His job is to recruit Pensacola State students to become more engaged with the College, exhibit school…
Larry Watson will perform at the Pensacola State College International Festival set for April 15. The New School Motown-inspired singer will perform at 3 p.m. on the festival’s main stage. Of course, there will be something Asian at the Pensacola State College International Festival on Saturday, April 15. The recently-opened Something Asian food truck will…
Khaliah Williams, from left, Dorothy Lee and Chinesa Sunday are all Pensacola State alums who work at the UF/IFAS Extension Escambia County office. Khaliah Williams’ new job is an important one that will improve the lives of Escambia County’s most vulnerable and those in need. On March 20, Williams, a Pensacola State College alumna, started…
The stellar work currently displayed in Pensacola State College’s Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts looks very professional. Yet all 100 artists featured in the exhibition are Pensacola State students. The annual PSC Student Art Awards Exhibition opened on April 3 and runs through May 5 in the Switzer Gallery. An opening reception and…
Pierre Baldwin You practice to get better. And if results mean anything, and they do, moving from second place to first is a sure sign of improvement and achievement. Pierre Baldwin practices his saxophone a lot. The PSC Marine Biology student won first place in the Jazz Pensacola Student Jazz Competition’s Collegiate Instrumental category, besting…
Joanna Hrycuna arranges ornamental metal garden flowers while her husband Gary Hrycuna rakes up their spot at the UF/IFAS and PSC Milton Campus Spring Festival of Flowers. The Mobile, Ala., couple travel selling their wares across the south. Their two-person company is called the Lazy Scroll. The Spring Festival of Flowers takes place Friday through…
There will be a lot of local flavor on the inaugural Pensacola State College women’s soccer team, which begins its first season of play in August. The first four players signed to the Pirates team are all high school and club standouts from Santa Rosa County. PSC’s first soccer coach, Mark Yepishin, promises more local…
Pensacola State College’s Cybersecurity Program has passed the first hurdle in earning a National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity designation from the National Security Agency (NSA). The NSA is the U.S. intelligence agency responsible for global data and intelligence collection and processing. The National Centers of Academic Excellence have validated the College’s Associate of…
Six Pensacola State College faculty members are the 2023 Academy of Teaching Excellence inductees. Awarded annually to outstanding classroom instructors who demonstrate sustained teaching excellence, the inductees and their departments are: Instructor Lauren Baugus, English and Communications Assistant Professor Dr. Kate Cavanaugh, Natural Sciences Adjunct Faculty Tabitha Epperson-Graham, Humanities and Social Sciences Professor Don Lee,…
Edmund Berrigan Edmund Berrigan was born with poetry in his blood. His father, Ted Berrigan, was a well-known and respected “late-Beat” poet and writer. According to the Chicago-based Poetry Foundation, his mother, Alice Notley, has become “one of America’s greatest living poets.” Notley spoke at Pensacola State College in 2019 as part of the Lyceum…
Pensacola State College and ST Engineering have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore opening a new Aviation Maintenance Training Academy at the Pensacola International Airport. The announcement was made during the Feb. 27 grand opening of ST Engineering’s Hangar 2. The proposed academy would be open to adult learners and dual-enrolled high school students…
Albaraa Basfar Dr. Albaraa Basfar will travel back to Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, this May, where he will receive his doctorate and be recognized as the Distinguished Ph.D. Student in the university’s Education Studies program. “I’ve very honored,’’ said Basfar, Pensacola State College Research Analyst in the Office of Institutional Research. “It was a…
Christy Myers, regional representative for Steinway with Benjamin Rollings, winner of the Top Piano Teacher Award from Steinway & Sons. Benjamin Rollings was a talented and accomplished piano student, earning scholarships and graduation distinctions throughout his musical studies, which began at age 6. As a teacher, Rollings is just as accomplished. Rollings is a Pensacola…
McGuire’s Irish Pub Pipe Band Filipino pancit, African drummers, Polynesian Hula Dancing, Irish bagpipe tunes and a Japanese bonsai exhibit will be among the many offerings at the 2023 Pensacola State College International Festival. Set for 11 a.m.-6 p.m. on Saturday, April 15, the festival will transform the College’s Pensacola campus into a bazaar of…
Pensacola State College has been named a 2023-2024 Gold Military Friendly® School by Viqtory Media. This is the 14th year the College has received the accolade and the second consecutive year earning the gold designation. Pensacola State is one of 250 schools to receive the gold status for leading practices, outcomes, and effective programs that…
2023 AAMES Wiggins Scholarship Recipients, from left front row, Dr. Tonie Anderson-Steele, Taliesha McClain, Devina Hall, Dr. Rameca Vincent Leary, Katisha Williams and Teala Reguindin. From left back row, Onesimus Gordon, Taelen Stovall, Penelope McCants, Aria Hilliard, Chandra Walker and Dr. Ed Meadows Teala Reguindin recently graduated from Pensacola State College’s nationally-acclaimed Nursing Program as…
The prize winners and competition officials for the Pensacola State College 2023 Finger Style Acoustic Guitar Competition are, from left, Jason Sisko, adjudicator; Derrick Javier, adjudicator and competition sponsor representative for Minds on Music; First-place winner Donald Hinchman; Second-place winner Laws Savage; Third-place winner Simon Joos; Bokyung Byun, Guest Artist and adjudicator; Jim DeStafney, competition…
Pensacola State College Performing Arts Department is bringing the beloved classic “Little Women” to the Ashmore Auditorium this week, with performances running Thursday through Sunday.
It’s playwright Kate Hamill’s retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War era landmark novel, “Little Women,” published in two parts in the 1860s.
Yet the war between two of the four March sisters – Jo and Amy – is focused here.
A steady stream of returning Pensacola State College students moved through Building 21 n the Pensacola campus on March 1 to register for summer and fall 2023 semesters. March 1 was the first day of Priority Registration, which runs through March 31. Returning students who register for classes during Priority Registration will be eligible to…
Pensacola State announces proposed fee increases for the Manufacturing Skills Standards Council’s Certified Production Technician (MSSC-CPT) Exams for students enrolled in the College’s Advanced Manufacturing-AS programs.
The one-time Online Candidate Post-Secondary and Industry Registration for the MSSC-CPT Exam is proposed to increase to $65. Students currently pay a $60 fee. On Jan. 12, the Manufacturing Skills Standards Council announced the Online Candidate Post-Secondary and Industry Registration fee will increase to $65 – effective July 1, 2023.
Pensacola State announced proposed fee changes for 21 Course Lab Fees for students enrolled in the College’s Health Science programs. The College’s District Board of Trustees will vote on the fee changes at the Tuesday, April 18, meeting set for 5:30 p.m. on the Milton campus. If approved by the Board of Trustees, the…
Penny Taylor, PSC TRIO-Student Support Services Retention Specialist. The free hot dogs and hamburgers are gone. However, Pensacola State College’s TRIO programs still offer free student trips, academic advisors, free tutoring, and so much more all year. TRIO programs nationwide celebrated a legacy of student service on Feb. 28. Pensacola State’s TRIO Day celebration on…
Chasity Brooks and PSC Photography Professor Kristen Regan. Chasity Brooks was named the 2023 Pensacola State College Sunset Photography Contest winner during a short ceremony at Jaco’s Bayfront Bar & Grille on March 1. A grandmother and PSC photography student, Brooks was one of five students whose work was featured throughout February at the popular…
Members are, from left, Isaac Railing, Israel Railing, Laws Savage, Peg Barrett, Dawson Calugar, Sienna Hudak, Patrick Kinnell, Connor Bond and Rory Swanson. Pensacola State College will present the Pensacola Guitar Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Joe Stallings, in its 40th Anniversary Spring Recital on Saturday, April 1. The recital is set for 7:30…
Two nontraditional Pensacola State students helped bring back a long-gone tradition at the College.
Nursing students Jocelyn Gebhard and Derek Olford were crowned 2023 Homecoming Queen and King by PSC President Ed Meadows during halftime of the women’s basketball game against Northwest Florida State College on Wednesday, Feb. 22.
Eighteen Pensacola State College graphic design and photography students won a total of 69 ADDY Awards at the 2023 Pensacola American Advertising Federation Awards Gala held Feb. 10 at the Hilton Pensacola Beach.
The students won 26 gold and 42 silver awards. Casey DeLong won one of three Judges Awards along with two gold and six silver ADDYs. Jennifer Manare won 10 ADDYs ─ five gold and five silver awards.
Children are often asked what they want to be when they grow up. But sadly, only some of us end up working in the profession we envisioned as kids.
Well, Chris Gustin did.
“In sixth grade, we were asked what we wanted to be when we grew up,” Gustin said. “I wrote ‘pottery man.”’
There’s still time to vote for your favorite photograph in the annual Pensacola State College Sunset Photography Contest. Five PSC students have submitted 13 photos that are now on display at Jaco’s Bayfront Bar & Grille, which sponsors the contest and is a longtime supporter of the PSC Photography program.
Four Pensacola State College employees – Stephanie Denmark, Mikenzie Francis, Obi Kalu and Hailey Lotz ─ were selected InWeekly 2023 Rising Stars. Denmark is the Registrar.
Montessori School of Pensacola eighth-grader Liam Nelson recently spent four days interning in various Pensacola State College departments.
Liam, 14, worked in Institutional Research, Workday Solutions, Enterprise Solutions and the Marketing Department’s Web Team.
The Feb. 6-9 internship was part of a Montessori School program where students enter the local workforce for a few days.
Get free, expert help applying, registering, and paying for college at Pensacola State College’s Financial Aid Day from1-3 p.m. Sunday, March 5, at the Student Center, Building 5, on the Pensacola campus, 1000 College Blvd.
Ask questions, use the Computer Lab for online forms, and receive one-on-one assistance. Academic and Financial Aid counselors will be available to help new and returning students and their parents through the admissions and registration steps.
There were calls to tradition and ancestors. But there were also poignant calls for action to forge an even better future.
It was all part of the Pensacola State College Black History Celebration on Tuesday, Feb. 14, in the Delaino Student Center on the Pensacola campus. The event was hosted by the PSC African-American Student Association (AASA).
“We’re here to celebrate Black culture and Black History,’’ said Dr. Tonie Anderson-Steele, PSA AASA Faculty Advisor. Moments later, she led the crowd in a traditional libations ceremony, where gatherers called out to the spirits of ancestors. The others offered the ancestral response, “Asé,’’ which is a word of affirmation in the Yoruba language, which originated in Nigeria.
They have personalities. They have skills and talent. What they need and want, though, is your vote.
Twenty-five Pensacola State College students have self-nominated for the 2023 Homecoming Court, a vital feature of the first PSC Homecoming celebration since the 1970s. The nominees include 22 women Pirates. The top five vote-getters will make up the 2023 Homecoming Court. Only three men are self-nominated, so all will be members of the Court.
Voting ends at 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17. To cast your ballot, go to https://www.pensacolastate.edu/homecoming/. The poll is open to everyone, whether they’re affiliated with the College or not.
Why not a Pensacola State College Homecoming? Why did we ever stop?
The College is bringing back some old Pirate swagger with a Homecoming 2023 celebration complete with tailgate parties, sporting events, a Homecoming Court and the crowning of a Homecoming King and Queen.
It will be the College’s first Homecoming since the 1970s when the institution was Pensacola Junior College. It became Pensacola State College in 2010.
“It’s the first time in decades, so we’re excited,’’ said Jon Stephenson, Associate Vice President of Student Affairs. “Homecoming can be an impactful event for our students to be engaged with the College and have a voice on campus. It’s to bring a little more school spirit to PSC.”
The highlight of Homecoming 2023 will be the introduction of the Pirate Homecoming Court and the coronation of the king and queen during halftime of the women’s basketball game against Northwest Florida State College on Wednesday, Feb. 22.
All active duty U.S. service members and veterans will be honored during Military Appreciation Night at Pensacola State College men and women’s basketball games against Chipola College on Feb. 15 at the Hartsell Arena on the Pensacola campus.
These athletic aerialists have wowed and thrilled audiences in China, South America and Africa.
They’ve performed halftime shows at NBA All-Star games, NCAA Final Four games and on Feb. 22 the Air Elite Dunkers will fly high in Pensacola State College’s Hartsell Arena.
The Georgia-based troupe will perform at halftime of the PSC men’s basketball homecoming basketball games against Northwest Florida State College. The women’s game starts at 5:30 p.m. while the men’s game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
There’s little doubt that the most active student organization on campus is the Pensacola State College Student Veterans Association (SVA).
You’ll see them at nearly every PSC event – from hosting tailgate cookouts at sporting events to helping organize events such as January’s Welcome Back Bash. Seriously, the College’s SVA always answers the call to duty.
Now the SVA is launching the Veteran Coffee Project to raise funds to attend the 2024 SVA NATCON Conference in Nashville Tennessee.
Moving from military life back into the civilian world can be tough for many U.S. service members.
Now, a new program at Pensacola State College will help transitioning military members – as well as veterans – learn valuable workforce skills at no cost.
The College has partnered with LIFT, a Detroit-based U.S. Department of Defense-funded national manufacturing innovation institute, to provide free training in welding and CNC – Computer Numeric Control – to transitioning military members, veterans, spouses and dependents.
Thirteen fundraising and business professionals will share their secrets for success during Pensacola State College’s 2023 Nonprofit Summit set for Friday, Feb. 10.
Hosted by the PSC Nonprofit Center for Excellence and Philanthropy, the summit’s theme is “Step Out of Your Comfort Zone into Greatness” and is set for 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. in Room 1704, Building 17, on the Pensacola campus.
Just because you’re a nursing student with mad skills doesn’t mean you have all the skills needed to enter the workforce. Do you know how to develop a resume? And that beach selfie isn’t going to work as a professional headshot.
That’s why Pensacola State College is hosting numerous events in February to develop soft job skills for Career and Technical Education Training students who are learning those hard skills at the College.
February is national Career and Technical Education Month. CTE students are those working toward an Associate in Science degree, a vocational certificate or college credit certificate. This spring, 23 percent of PSC students are CTE students.
Get free, expert help applying, registering, and paying for college at Pensacola State College’s Financial Aid Day from 1-3 p.m. Sunday, March 5, at the Student Center, Building 5, on the Pensacola campus, 1000 College Blvd.
Ask questions, use the Computer Lab for online forms, and receive one-on-one assistance. Academic and Financial Aid counselors will be available to help new and returning students and their parents through the admissions and registration steps.
Joe Diamond is very familiar with the Pensacola State College classroom that is now named for his mother – Dr. Marie M. Diamond.
He used to teach in the room. In fact, Diamond ─ the program director for Pensacola State College from 1980 to 2009 ─ taught his mother in Room 3702, now known as the Dr. Marie M. Diamond EMT and Paramedic Classroom, located in Building 3700 on the Warrington campus.
“She would talk a lot,’’ Joe Diamond said of the experience of teaching his own mother. “Please be quiet, Mrs. Diamond. Please be quiet, Mrs. Diamond. Mother, be quiet!”
He laughed.
In the 1930s, New York artist, explorer and adventurer Rockwell Kent sailed to Greenland and lived there for several years, documenting the majestic landscape and the strong, industrious Inuit people who lived there.
In 2016, New York artist Denis Defibaugh spent more than a year in Greenland, visiting the same coastal communities that Kent did more than 80 years earlier.
Defibaugh’s celebrated photographic exhibition of the journey, “North by Nuuk: Greenland After Rockwell Kent,” is now on display in the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts on Pensacola State College’s Pensacola campus.
The exhibition runs through March 10. An artist lecture and reception were held on Jan. 26.
The new Florida Power and Light Company Innovation Center in the Pensacola State College Charter Academy can take a student from the middle of an African savanna where they are surrounded by zebras and elephants to inside the human body to learn up close about biology.
Those journeys are made on one of 10 virtual reality goggles that are part of the high-tech, state-of-the-art equipment in the Florida Power and Light Company Charter Academy Innovation Center that was dedicated Tuesday, Jan. 24.
Pensacola State College’s online RN to BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) Program continues to be ranked among the best in the Florida College System, the state and nation by U.S. News and World Report.
In the publication’s “Best Online Bachelor’s Programs 2023 Edition,” the program was ranked third among FCS institutions, 10th among all Florida colleges and universities and 74th in the United States.
Also, the online RN to BSN Program was ranked second in the FCS, seventh among all Florida colleges and universities and 43rd in the U.S. in the publication’s 2023 Best Online Bachelor’s Program for Veterans category.
Gabe Bullaro, CEO of HCA Florida West Hospital, knows what the lauded healthcare institution is investing in with its $50,000 grant to establish a Nurse Explorer Boot Camp at Pensacola State College’s Warrington campus.
It’s an investment in our community and the health of its citizens. It’s job growth investment which aims to bring more young talent to nursing and health-care-related fields and professions. It’s also an investment in PSC’s mission to educate and train nurses and ready them for immediate entry into the workforce.
If you know contemporary poetry, then you’ll recognize some of the writers in the 2023 literary anthology “Hurricane Review.”
An annual publication of the Pensacola State College English and Communications Department, the 20th edition of the “Hurricane Review” features 26 local, national and international writers whose works were chosen from numerous submissions.
The 2021 Guitar Foundation of America’s International Concert Artist Competition Grand Prize winner, Bokyung Byun will bring her refined musicianship to Pensacola State College next month.
Presented by the College’s Guitar Association, Byun’s performance is set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, in Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus.
Admission is $11 for adults, $9 for senior citizens and non-PSC students and $7 for PSC employees. The performance is free for current PSC students and Friends of the Performing Arts members.
The 2023 Pensacola State College Finger Style Acoustic Guitar Competition is set for 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, Feb. 18, in Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium.
The competition is open to all acoustic guitarists who are 18 years old or younger on the date of the competition. Ashmore Auditorium is Building 8 on the Pensacola campus at 1000 College Blvd. There is no application fee. The first-place winner will receive a $600 cash prize. The second-place winner will be awarded $450. The third-place winner will receive $300.
Gabe Bullaro, CEO of HCA Florida West Hospital, knows what the lauded healthcare institution is investing in with its $50,000 grant to establish a Nurse Explorer Boot Camp at Pensacola State College’s Warrington campus. It’s an investment in our community and the health of its citizens. It’s job growth investment which aims to bring more…
More than 40 Northwest Florida employers are looking to hire at the Pensacola State College Multicultural Job Fair set for 9 a.m.-noon Thursday, Feb. 2.
Hosted by PSC, CareerSource ESCAROSA, the American Job Center Network and Employ Florida, the job fair will be held in the Delaino Student Center, Building 5, on the Pensacola campus. Building 5 faces Underwood Avenue.
Despite the bumper sticker, life is not a beach. It can be hard. Nearly all Pensacola State College students – 96 percent – are worried about finances.
The PSC Pirates CARE team does all it can to help students overcome financial, physical and mental, emotional and intellectual problems and concerns.
Now, with a new three-year U.S. Department of Education Basic Needs for Postsecondary Students Program grant, the Pirates CARE team can offer even more help to students in need.
“We’re honoring perhaps the best to ever wear a Pirates uniform,’’ said Pensacola State College Athletic Director Bryan Lewallyn.
Moments later, a large reproduction of Carla Williams “22” Pirate jersey was unspooled from the rafters in the Hartsell Arena.
“Her number will now hang inside Hartsell Arena forever,’’ Lewallyn said. “It will never be worn by another men’s or women’s basketball player again. It will always belong to Carla Williams.”
If you ever need to give directions to the Chadbourne Library, just tell folks to look for the three giant birds. They can’t miss them. They are nearly 23 feet high. That’s taller than a T-Rex!
The Pensacola State Visual Arts Department has added seven new art installations to the College’s Outdoor Gallery – including the three large reproductions of works from legendary artists/naturalist John James Audubon’s “Birds of America” series – “Brown Pelican,” 1832, “Red-headed Woodpecker,’’ 1828 and “American Flamingo,” 1838.
Sure, the “official” forecast right now is low temperatures in the high 50s in Pensacola on Friday, Jan. 20.
But at Pensacola State College, we’re expecting snow and ice skating that day when the “Winter Wonderland”-themed 2023 PSC Welcome Back Bash takes place in the Pensacola campus track and field area.
A journalist and award-winning educator, Leary is PSC coordinator of diversity initiatives
Dr. Rameca Vincent Leary has been inducted into Marquis Who’s Who.
As in all Marquis Who’s Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
U.S. Navy veteran Tyler Martin started his first college semester on Monday. He wasn’t quite sure where to go and what to expect on his first day – he’s a Pensacola State College welding student hoping to earn a career certificate – so he attended an orientation session last week.
“This is my first time in college,’’ he said. “I’m excited. I want to be a welder and then get the commercial driver’s license. I want to learn it all.”
If you’ve heard the song “Wagon Wheel” – and we know you have – you can credit iconic songwriter Bob Dylan and Ketch Secor of the Grammy-winning band, Old Crow Medicine Show.
Who knows? Maybe Secor will even play the once-ubiquitous earworm when he performs on Friday, Jan. 27, in Pensacola State College’s Ashmore Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus.
Construction of the Bear, Jones, Moore, and Reeves Advanced Technology Building should be completed by the end of summer with the first classes expected in the new facility in spring 2024.
Site work for the $23 million to $24 million project began in January 2022. An official groundbreaking ceremony was held last June.
The Pensacola State College 2022 season ended strongly with the Pirates sending two runners to the NJCAA 5K National Championship race in Tallahassee in November.
The team’s top two runners, Emmalei Miller and Kaydee Cook, finished the championship race with times of 23:34 and 25:37, respectively. Emmalei’s time was three minutes quicker than when she ran the same course in September. Kaydee’s 5K finishing time was a five-minute improvement from when she began the season.
Several Pensacola State College graduates were recognized at the Fall 2022 Commencement ceremony held Dec. 11 Sunday in the Pensacola Bay Center.
Susan N. Story, retired chief executive officer and chief financial officer of American Water Works Inc., delivered the keynote address to the summer and fall grads who earned Bachelor of Applied Science, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Associate in Arts and Associate in Science degrees as well as Technical Certificates, Career Certificates, Advanced Technical Certificates and Advanced Technical Diplomas.
We’re Pirates, but we’re no plunderers. In fact, the students, staff, faculty and administration at Pensacola State College have a tradition of helping others in need of cheer, comfort or compassion.
This year is no different as various PSC groups have worked to help others during the holiday season:
Just days before graduation, more than 50 Pensacola State College nursing students recited the Florence Nightingale Pledge and received nursing pins at the 2022 Fall Pinning Ceremony.
Nikki Francis was one of the students pinned at the Dec. 8 ceremony at First Pentecostal Church on Pensacola Boulevard. Ninety students earned their nursing pins, but not all attended the ceremony.
There were times during Nikki’s studies when she wasn’t sure if she would make it through. She would, but she would have to sacrifice so much – including signing over temporary guardianship of her 4-year-old son, Tyceon, in September to her mother who was going to Texas.
Pensacola State College student Jordan Caldwell had a plate of food, but it wasn’t too full.
“If I eat too much, I’ll get tired and pass out,’’ the computer science major said. “I want to do well. I’m so nervous.”
Caldwell was one of many PSC students who were treated to a pancake breakfast Monday morning ─ courtesy of the Office of Student Engagement and Leadership with assistance from the Culinary Department which helped prepare the food along with volunteers.
La’Krystal Neal-Williams knows the impact that the TRIO programs can have on a student and their future.
She was looking for the TRIO offices at the University of West Florida as a student when UWF TRIO representative David Williams walked her to another building to help her get some paperwork.
Neal-Williams ended up marrying David Williams.
Now, she is a Pensacola State College TRIO-Student Support Services’ Academic Advisor and Life Skills Coach. Student Support Services is one of five federally-funded TRIO programs available at PSC.
Former Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson IV walked to Audrey Stemen’s poster exhibit and stared quizzically at the topic – “Structure Elucidation of a Copper (I) Thiolate and its Water-Soluble Complex”.
“So, what is this?” Robinson asked, requesting Aubrey explain the topic a bit.
She did ─ extensively and confidently.
Pensacola State College and Pensacola-based contractor, the Morette Company, held a “Topping Off” ceremony on Wednesday to celebrate the placement of the final structural beam on the Bear, Jones, Moore, and Reeves Advanced Technology Building.
The facility (estimated to cost $22 million to $25 million) is scheduled for completion in December 2023.
When you’re creating sparkling, top-shelf advertising campaigns that dazzle eyes and hold attention, you can expect some interest from the professionals.
Pensacola State College graphic design instructor Mark Hopkins said that’s exactly what happened when representatives from local advertising firms showed up for the 2022 Dr. Marjan Mazza Bachelor of Applied Science in Business and Management – Graphic Design Senior Exhibition Reception on Dec. 1 at the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts.
The Pensacola State College Chapter of the Association of Florida Colleges was recognized as a Platinum Chapter during the 73rd Annual AFC Annual Conference and Meeting.
Nine PSC representatives attended the conference held Nov. 15-18 in Panama City. That number included two retired members – Lynn Cade and Carol Quinn as well as well as two first-time attendees – John Woods and Michelle Maddrey.
Other PSC representatives were Jamie Beck, Tammy Henderson, Fred Holt, Obi Kalu and Mel Miner.
Twenty years after she would have graduated from high school, Denise Harris earned a GED and received her diploma.
Harris was one of 50 graduates honored at the 2022 Pensacola State College General Education Diploma Recognition Ceremony held Wednesday in Ashmore Auditorium on the Pensacola campus.
She’s not waiting that long for her next educational venture. Harris, a mother of seven children ages 13 to 23, starts classes at PSC in January.
Nursing pinning ceremony to be held Dec. 8
Pensacola State College will hold nursing pinnings and fall commencement on Thursday, Dec. 8, and Sunday, Dec. 11, respectively.
Summer and Fall Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing, Associate of Science degree in Nursing and Career Certificate in Practical Nursing graduates will be pinned during a 3 p.m. Thursday ceremony at First Pentecostal Church, 6485 Pensacola Blvd., Pensacola.
A year ago, Pensacola State College didn’t even have an eSports Program. Now, the PSC eSports Program is sending two two-person teams to the NJCAAE playoffs to compete in “Call of Duty: Warzone.”
PSC Team 1 – Jackson Clyde and Joel Montoro ─ is ranked 11th in Warzone and will face off against 22nd ranked Southwest Illinois College at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30.
Pensacola State announced proposed fee increases for the National Healthcareer Association (NHA) certification tests for students enrolled in the College’s EKG and Phlebotomy programs.
The application fees for the Certified EKG Technician (CET) Exam and the Certified Phlebotomy Technician (CPT) Exam may increase to $125 each.
Don’t misunderstand. Scott Emerline really enjoys his new position as a Pensacola State College recruiter. But he would love to go back to the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar.
Emerline, a University of West Florida alumnus and English major, joined the PSC team in October. But for the first three months of 2020, Emerline lived in Myanmar working as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English to, mostly, children. He arrived at the beginning of the year but in March, well, COVID-19 happened.
Pensacola State College dedicated its new nonprofit training room to Florida Power & Light on Tuesday, Nov. 15, in appreciation of the company’s substantial support of the College.
The Florida Power & Light Company Nonprofit Center Training Room is located in the PSC Nonprofit Center Annex, Building 17, on the PSC Pensacola campus.
The Nonprofit Center for Excellence at Pensacola State College was established in December 2018 after the Gulf Power Foundation made a five-year, $150,000 commitment to help kickstart the Center and support students and nonprofit professionals attending workshops and professional training.
Mark Hopkins walked slowly through the Switzer Gallery taking in the exquisite design campaigns from 11 talented graphic design artists.
The exhibition is special to Hopkins, Pensacola State College graphic design instructor. The artists are his students and the exhibition is the culmination and sparkling evidence of all they have learned at PSC.
The 2022 Dr. Marjan Mazza Bachelor of Applied Science in Business and Management – Graphic Design Senior Exhibition “How Design Makes Us Think, Feel, and Do Things” is on display through Dec. 9 at the Switzer Gallery at the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts on the Pensacola campus. The Opening Reception for the exhibition is from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 1.
There was birthday cake and a ribbon cutting. There was a cookout and patriotic music.
Pensacola State College is closed on Veterans Day, Friday, Nov. 11. So, a day earlier, PSC strengthened its commitment to student-veterans with the ribbon cutting ceremony for the PSC Veteran Student Success Center, which had its unofficial opening earlier this year.
Shaun Garner is a retired U.S. Navy Diving Medical Technician. He’s trained to come to the rescue in life and death situations.
Garner made a rescue at Pensacola State College in August, but it wasn’t of the life and death variety. It was pretty important though.
Garner is the new PSC Carpentry Program coordinator, replacing former Tony Grahame who left this summer to pursue an opportunity with his son.
Of the dozens of Santa Rosa School District high school counselors who visited the Pensacola State College South Santa Rosa Center on Tuesday, Nov. 8, only a few had been on the campus.
But by the time they left, the counselors and school administrators knew plenty about not only the South Santa Rosa Center off Gulf Breeze Parkway, but all that PSC has to offer students.
Pensacola State supporter and advocate Mary Hoxeng was bestowed an honorary Bachelor of Arts in Humane Letters degree from the College in October.
The College’s District Board Trustees Chairman Dr. Troy Tippett and President Ed Meadows presented Hoxeng with the honorary degree and a proclamation during the Oct. 18, board meeting on the Warrington campus.
The Pensacola State College Outdoor Gallery has four new – new to the College, at least – masterpieces for all to see.
Large vinyl reproductions produced by Lamar Advertising of acclaimed artworks now adorn the exteriors of buildings on the Pensacola campus.
Pensacola State College business students who want to earn a master’s degree after earning a Bachelor of Applied Science degree now have an easier path to continue their education.
The College and the University of West Florida entered into a new PSC2UWF MBA Articulation agreement that will expedite admission of PSC students graduating with a BAS degree in Business Management into the Master of Business Administration program at the university.
The agreement was signed Thursday, Nov. 3, by PSC President Ed Meadows and UWF President Martha Saunders during a ceremony in the Dona and Milton Usry Board Room at the PSC Pensacola campus.
Heather Harvill has kids of her own – young adults, actually – in college. She definitely wasn’t expecting a scholarship for herself.
Yet Harvill is one of two Pensacola State College Culinary Management students who are the latest recipients of scholarships provided by the Cantonment Rotary Club.
Harvill and fellow scholarship recipient Savannah Barwick met with members of the Cantonment Rotary Club at a luncheon Tuesday, Nov. 2, in the Molly McGuire Culinary Arts Dining Room on the Pensacola campus.
Congrats to Pensacola State College students Madeleine Graybeal and Alexandra Kasel.
They’re the winners of the PSC Priority Registration iPad giveaway. The two students were selected randomly from more than 3,000 Pirates who registered for the spring term.
The Pensacola State College volleyball teams didn’t lose a match in October and rides a 14-game winning streak into the postseason, which begins today for the Pirates squad.
Head Coach Patricia Gandolfo is thrilled with the team’s improvement and dominance as the season continues but realizes the NJCAA Region 8 Division II tournament is a season in itself.
“It was a great way to finish,’’ Gandolfo said. “You want to peak at the right time, but I don’t think we have yet. But right now, we haven’t won a postseason match. It’s 0-0. We haven’t won anything yet. It’s a clean slate and anything can happen in the postseason.”
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