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 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 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.
Because of concerns about COVID-19, the PSC Writing Lab tutors will be available through virtual tutoring six days a week for the foreseeable future so that students can still get the writing help that they may need, says Jessica Millis, Writing Lab district supervisor.
Phase 1 of the building plan is the $15 million two-story east wing building that is in the final construction stages. Phase I completion is slated for May, and classes in the new facility will begin at the start of the fall term in August.
Since 1993, the PSC Planetarium has offered students – and the public – a glimpse into the heavens from images projected on the planetarium’s 40-foot diameter dome.
The PSC Bookstore websites remain open and have extended free ground shipping on all items with no minimum purchase. This includes various formats of course materials, supplies, apparel, technology and more.
Tonie Anderson-Steele is in her early 60s now, and she hasn’t forgotten the simple pleasures of her own youth. But she doesn’t forget the darker periods either. Or the darkness those who came before her were subjected to on United States soil.
Miriam Villa, who graduated from PSC in fall, 2019, was recently selected as a 2020 Coca-Cola Academic Team Gold Scholar.
On Wednesday, April 1, Pensacola State students will have their own chance to say “Thank you” to the numerous donors who support every aspect of the College.
Pensacola State College celebrated its diversity and commitment to minority students on Feb. 28 at the annual African American Memorial Endowment Scholarship Program and the Dr. Garrett T. Wiggins’ “Live Your Dream” Scholarship Banquet. Eight students received scholarships that will help them continue their education at PSC.
Statistics show that in the 1940s, girls were as likely to read comic books as boys. But there was a difference, said retired educator Magdalena Lamarre.
PSC was named one of 625 “Military Friendly Schools” for 2020-2021 by VIQTORY, a veteran-owned company that connects former military members to civilian employment and educational opportunities. This is the 11th consecutive year that VIQTORY has named Pensacola State College a Military Friendly school.
PSC personnel are taking a lead role in researching Santa Rosa County lynchings, with hopes to document the brutal acts and, eventually, recognize the victims with a historical marker to be erected at a yet-to-be specified location.
Taking place from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 28, at Pensacola State College’s Milton campus, 5988 U.S. 90, the free Lumberjack Festival has something for everybody, including children’s activities, tasty foods and treats and nature and wildlife exhibits.
There are five new Pirate legends whose swashbuckling tales of athletic success and glory, and stories of unwavering support for Pensacola State College, are now forever enshrined in the college’s rich history and lore.
Marie Perry, 30, is a cybersecurity student at Pensacola State College, having received her Associate in Science degree in December. Currently she’s in the Bachelor of Applied Science Program for Cybersecurity and hopes to start the Cyber Forensics Program in the fall.
Magdalena Lamarre will examine the evolution of women in popular culture through the lens of the comic book universe in the lecture “Female Superheroes: What Are Their Real Powers?” to be delivered at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, in the Hagler Auditorium.
The Pensacola State College African America Student Association, made up mostly of young students born as beneficiaries of the civil right movement and the grit, determination and righteousness of those who preceded them, is determined to remember the past.
Katie Hudon’s day-to-day functions include support of the Warrington staff, oversight of admissions and advising, as well as the functions of the L.I.F.E. Fitness Center, policy and process development, service on the Pirates CARE team, and authorization over recruitment, admissions, dual enrollment, registration, advising/counseling, student support services and career development.
Pensacola State College’s family tree has many branches. But only one branch has three Branches.
About 60 Holley-Navarre Intermediate fifth-graders from three different classes visited the South Santa Rosa Center on Friday, Feb. 7. Holley-Navarre Intermediate School has 15 fifth-grade classes, and the other classes will visit the South Santa Rosa Center each Friday through February, as well as March 27.
Andrew and Aundre Conner are identical twins from their heads to their toes.
Wilma Duncans-Burnett, who began her teaching career at Pensacola State College – then Pensacola Junior College – in August 1988, will teach her final class on Feb. 29. Maybe.
The official PSC smartphone app has been given some major upgrades.
Being in a room full of Susan N. McCollough paintings must be akin to what it’s like being in the middle of a jazz improvisation performed by the masters – graceful, yes, but imbued with a spirit of frantic kineticism and spellbinding abstractism that is both mesmerizing and provoking.
Sometime this spring, the discs will be flying across open fields on Pensacola State College’s Pensacola campus.
Put your confidence to the test by joining SkillsUSA, a national organization that serves career and technical students.
Get free, expert help applying, registering and paying for college at Pensacola State College’s Financial Aid Day set for noon-3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, at the Student Center, Building 5, on the Pensacola campus, 1000 College Blvd.
PSC is one of the 28 Florida colleges participating in Gov. DeSantis’ “Last Mile College Completion Program,” which offers free tuition to students close to finishing their degree.
February is national Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month, and the College will participate with a series of events designed to showcase the program’s effectiveness in job training.
More than 20 Northwest Florida employers are looking to hire at the 25th Multicultural Job Fair set for 9 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Feb. 1.
On Jan. 13, Pen Air Federal Credit Union gave $5,000 to the Pensacola State College Scholarship Fund in a ceremony held in the Pen Air Federal Credit Union Classroom located in Chadbourne Library.
All through February, Jaco’s will showcase Pensacola State College’s Photography Program, when students’ sunset-inspired photographs will be featured and displayed. The student who is chosen by Jaco’s patrons to have the best photograph wins a month-long exhibit in April.
On Jan. 21, Pensacola State College honored Dona and Milton Usry, who have become personal and appreciated friends to many in the PSC family, including college president Ed Meadows.
Nonprofit expert Cathy Brown will host “Donor-Centered Proposals and Presentation” workshop on Wednesday, Jan. 29, at Pensacola State College.
Garry Krinsky will bring Toying with Science, a fast-paced, fun-filled and interactive learning experience, to Pensacola State College on Saturday, Jan. 25.
Pensacola State College has appointed Jill Hubbs to serve as interim general manager of WSRE and executive director of the WSRE-TV Foundation.
Pensacola State College will hold auditions for “Machinal” at 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 21 and Jan. 22, in Ashmore Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus, 1000 College Blvd.
“Contemporary Expressionism,” an exhibit, featuring the works of Alabama-based artist Susan N. McCollough will be on display Jan. 27-May 1 in the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts at Pensacola State College.
For the second consecutive year, Pensacola State College’s online Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) Program has been listed among the best in Florida and nation by U.S. News and World Report.
It’s the first 100 percent passing rate for a class from the PSC Veterinary Technology Program since 2013, when all nine students passed the 150-question Veterinary Technician National Exam (VTNE).
Beginning this month, PSC’s Center for Corporate and Professional Development Training presents another series of special effects makeup courses with instruction by the illusion-on-demand company Underground FX Lab.
Pensacola State’s Lyceum Series for Spring 2020 gets underway at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 12, with a performance by Chinese-American pianist Xun Pan, and continues with a variety of great performances, all presented at the Ashmore Auditorium.
Pensacola State College’s Association of Florida College chapter received the Platinum Chapter Award at the 70th AFC Annual Meeting and Conference held Nov. 6-8 in Innisbrook.
Several Pensacola State College students won awards at the 2019 Florida College System Publications Awards Conference held Nov. 14-16 in Tampa.
Acclaimed pianist Xun Pan will perform at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 12, at Pensacola State College’s Ashmore Auditorium.
More than 1,000 students received their degrees and certificates during Fall semester, including 120 students who earned baccalaureate degrees, which PSC first began offering in 2010.
136 Pensacola State College students received nursing pins at a Dec. 12 ceremony. Many of the new nurses have already landed jobs at local hospitals and health care facilities.
Ben Freeman and fellow Pensacola State College dual enrollment student Sydney Bates delivered the gifts on behalf of the Milton campus Phi Theta Kappa honors society chapter, which collected the donated items in recent months.
Pensacola State College will hold commencement exercises and nurses pinning ceremonies this week.
Along with the rest of the Northwest Florida community, the Pensacola State College family is heartbroken and stunned by the tragic events of this morning. Our best wishes and heartfelt support go out to the victims, their families, the first responders and everyone affected by this senseless attack.
Held annually, the Holiday Experience is a major fundraiser for the college and helps provide scholarships for students in need as well as program additions/improvements.
Once known for bringing in some of the nation’s leading speakers and public figures, the Panhandle Tiger Bay Club is no more, having merged with the University of West Florida Downtown Lecture Series in early November. But the club’s legacy – and that of one of its founders – will live on with a Pensacola State College scholarship totaling $5,000.
Five of Pensacola State’s most-accomplished Pirates will make up the College’s 2020 Athletes Hall of Fame class.
It’s the drive to excel and “do better” that is found in all Phi Theta Kappa members, said Biology Professor Jeff Wooters, who has served as the Theta Chi chapter adviser since 1994.
Tickets are selling quickly for the Pensacola State College Planetarium and Space Theater holiday shows.
The nearly two-dozen Dixon students were visiting the PSC Culinary Arts program as part of the middle school’s celebrated arts program. The next day, a different group of students visited the Cosmetology program, where they watched PSC students style hair and received tips from instructors.
The Pensacola State College Bookstore held its grand reopening recently with a ribbon cutting ceremony and even a celebratory cake.
PSC’s building trade students are building a prototype, energy-efficient, 600-square-foot mini-home for the Escambia County Housing Finance Authority. When complete, the dwelling will be sold to a qualified, first-time homeowner at an affordable rate.
This month we celebrated Veterans Day and this month the Pensacola State College Association of Florida Colleges chapter is recognizing two employees who ─ together ─ served more than five decades in the military.
The outstanding writers of the 2019 Walter F. Spara Writing Competition were recognized at an awards reception on Nov. 13 in the College’s Anna Lamar Switzer Center.
For its 2019 service project, Pensacola State College’s Robinson Honors Program collected 1,326 books and raised $537 to cover the shipping costs to create a library for the preschoolers through fourth-graders at Pajwenda Primary School.
Tucked into the woods just off Highway 90, Pensacola State College’s picturesque Milton campus will transform into a magical and musical landscape on Dec. 3 for the annual PSC Holiday Experience.
It was a homecoming of sorts at Wednesday’s night matchup between the Pensacola State College Pirates and Coastal Alabama ─ Monroeville Eagles. Former PSC Pirate basketball standout Glover Jackson was in the stands. For those who don’t remember, Jackson was a member of the College’s 1993 NJCAA Division 1 National Championship team coached by Bob Marlin.
The works of nine Pensacola State College graphic design students will be on display starting Wednesday, Nov. 20, at the National Naval Aviation Museum at NAS Pensacola.
The students of PSC’s veterinary technology program eagerly welcomed the public into the environment of their chosen vocation during an open house on Nov. 13 in Building 3200 of the Warrington campus.
Dr. Rameca Leary, Business Faculty and Coordinator of Diversity Initiatives at PSC, recently addressed the students at Dixon School of the Arts on the topic of colorism. She’ll be bringing that message to PSC.
Pensacola State College building construction program students toured the new STEM facility under construction on the Pensacola campus to get a better understanding of what it takes to build a multi-million project.
Pensacola State College has been named one of Military Times’ 2020 Best for Vets Schools.
Michael Johnston, 37, is PSC’s executive director of the Institutional Research Department, as well as the College’s State and Federal Reports Coordinator. He has been referred to, lovingly, as PSC’s “Data Guy.”
Several dozen high school students from five Northwest Florida counties and Baldwin County, Alabama, attended the 23rd Annual Pensacola State College Health Career Fair on Oct. 25 at the Warrington campus.
Pensacola State College Theater Director Rodney Whatley has been selected for induction into the Florida College System Activities Association (FCSAA) Hall of Fame.
A recent cookout on the Pensacola campus to honor Veterans Day was sponsored by the PSC Student Veterans Association, with support from PSC’s Veterans Upward Bound and Veterans Student Support Services, and featured burgers, hot dogs, ribs, sides and even two patriotic cakes created by the PSC Culinary Arts Program – one was decorated as a U.S. flag; the other cake featured the service emblems of U.S. military branches.
Buffi Bailey sits outside a downtown cafe, sipping a caramel latte and looking over her computer screen as the sounds and scents of the city swarm around her. Bailey, a doctor of nursing at Pensacola State College, is working. But of course, this isn’t a typical work day
Nationally-recognized fundraising consultant and researcher Penelope Burk brought her decades of experience to the inaugural Nonprofit Center For Excellence and Philanthropy at Pensacola State Summit on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 on the Pensacola campus.
Everyone on the PSC Milton campus knows Jennifer Hill Faron. The Milton native was named the campus’ interim dean in August and she continues to hold the Director of Student Affairs position at the campus as well – a position she has held since February 2018.
Three area athletes will begin their collegiate careers when the Pensacola State College basketball team opens its 2019-2020 season this weekend.
Jan and Ron Miller have named Pensacola State College the sole beneficiary of the $2.5 million Charitable Remainder Unitrust the couple established after selling their long-time business, Arco Marine, earlier this year.
If new Pensacola State College Century Center coordinator John Artinger is going to make the hour-plus drive to work each weekday from Navarre in southern Santa Rosa County to Escambia County’s northern border with Alabama, he’s going to do the most with his day once he arrives. Two weeks into the job, the former PSC adjunct psychology instructor and 35-year-educator already is trying to grow Century Center and expand its offerings to students and recruit into Alabama territories.
Taking advantage of an excellent opportunity to interact with prospective faculty while also sharing the benefits of teaching at Pensacola State College, Dr. Rameca Vincent Leary, Coordinator of Diversity Initiatives, recently participated in the 35th Annual McKnight Fellows Meeting in Tampa, Florida.
At 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, members of Boston Brass will present a free Master Class on music performance in Pensacola State College’s Ashmore Auditorium. The auditorium is Building 8 on the Pensacola campus, 1000 College Blvd.
Located in Building 2, Room 250, on the Pensacola campus, the “Not-So-Scary Haunted House” aims to give visitors a little taste of suspense and mystery, while forcing them to engage with Braille and American Sign Language to discover “who” or “what” is haunting the room.
Tickets are now on sale for Pensacola State College’s production of “The Producers” to be staged Nov. 8-10 and Nov. 14-17 in Ashmore Auditorium.
For the last few years Mitzie Sowell has served as associate professor of natural sciences ─ teaching anatomy and physiology, microbiology and introduction to biology at the college’s South Santa Rosa Center.
While many traditional degree-seeking students might enter college not knowing what they want to eventually do once they earn a degree, students in the Allied Health Department programs know exactly what they want to do.
The Pensacola State College Veterinary Technology Program Open House is set for 3-7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13, on the Warrington campus. Visitors will have the opportunity to meet the Vet Tech Program instructors and tour the college’s state-of-the-art facility in Building 3200 at 5555 W. Highway 98, Pensacola. The event also includes financial aid information, student organization exhibit and animal ambassadors.
Jeff Conner, the only original member of Boston Brass, will present his free entrepreneurial clinic, “The Portfolio Musician,” on Thursday, Nov. 7, at Pensacola State College.
The Pensacola Civic Band opens its 48th season with “Sketches of Spain,” featuring the world-renowned Boston Brass. The performance is set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, at the Pensacola Saenger Theatre. Under the direction of Don Snowden, the Pensacola Civic Band will perform music that will ignite the senses to all that Spain has to offer.
Sure, New Orleans’ Chef Kevin Belton came to Pensacola State College on Friday to cook up some of his award-winning, celebrated gumbo for the folks over at the WSRE-TV Pensacola Barn Dance Wine & Food Classic. But that wasn’t for hours and Belton sure didn’t want to wait to eat. So the towering, big teddy bear chef – he’s 6 feet 9 inches – visited the Pensacola State College Culinary Arts kitchen in the afternoon, to see what the students were cooking up for the evening’s event.
It was only after Jordan Campbell ─ who went by “Bekah” while at PSC ─ graduated with honors in May 2014, that instructor Ann Coon learned “the perfect role model” had a dark, stained and strained past. Just three years before graduating, Campbell was in prison serving time for fraud and theft brought on, she said, by years drowned and lost in drugs, dependency and, at times, abuse.
Pensacola State College was recently awarded a $2.2 million U.S. Department of Education Title III grant to help low-income students. The grant funds will be used to initiate a five-year program to improve services for low-income students, including hiring more advisors and tutors.
Pensacola State College’s Pirate fans can now purchase athletic apparel and other items from the comfort of their home, office or anywhere with a Wi-Fi connection.
Pensacola State College dental hygiene students will provide free dental sealants to children 15 years and younger on Saturday, Nov. 9, at the Warrington campus.
The 2019 Pensacola Writing and Book Festival promises something for everyone ─ from the young to the young-at-heart. Set for 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, in the Studer Community Center in downtown Pensacola, the festival will feature best-selling author Lenora Worth as the keynote speaker and include a lineup of other writers and workshops.
When this month’s AFC Spotlight Member began working at Pensacola State College, moviegoers were flocking to theaters to see “Forrest Gump,” Sony had just released the first PlayStation and Nokia ruled the cellphone market. The year was 1994, and Tammy Henderson, the College’s human resources director, remembers her love and commitment to the Association of Florida Colleges.
This year’s Lyceum schedule features musicians ranging from Maggie Koerner – former lead vocalist for celebrated jam band Galactic – to jazz artist Ron McCurdy, who will lead a musical tribute to iconic American author Langston Hughes.
High school seniors interested in a medical field might be able to actually give injections at the 23rd Annual Pensacola State College Health Career Fair on Oct. 25 at the Warrington campus.
Two Pensacola State Veterinary Technology graduates are featured in the October edition of Trends magazine. Gena Medley and Kirsten Kirkland were photographed at their jobs at Animal Hospital of Tiger Point.
Eleven law enforcement officers make up the Pensacola State College Police Department ─ one part of the school’s Public Safety Department, which also includes 17 non-sworn public safety officers who act as security guards on all campuses.
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