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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 dental hygiene students will provide free dental sealants to children 15 years and younger on Saturday, Nov. 9, at the Warrington campus.
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.
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.
Pensacola State students served up a wee bit of Irish food and flavor at a reception last week for family, friends and supporters of the College’s Culinary Arts Program. But the main course was two donations that will grow the Molly McGuire Culinary Arts Endowed Scholarship fund and help more students pursue their dreams.
Since 2016, Pensacola State has offered a Bachelor of Applied Science Degree in Cybersecurity. Program graduates will be prepared to earn 17 industry standard certifications. Some can even be earned while in the program. The cybersecurity program teaches students about security network technologies and operating systems, security management, databases, risk management, ethics, security testing and much more
On Nov. 1, the college will roll out its new PirateQ queuing system, which will streamline the registration process, cut down on waiting times and allow registration officials and academic advisors to devote more time to each student’s needs. The new PirateQ system is a product of QLess, a California-based technology firm that designs queuing systems for hospitals, government agencies, educational institutions and other large-traffic facilities.
Ten third-term Pensacola State cosmetology students offered free haircuts to homeless, hard-times military veterans who can’t afford such luxuries during the annual Homeless Veterans Stand Down at the Salvation Army.
Eight Presidential Scholars were honored at a Recognizing Excellence reception at the PSC Pensacola campus Sept. 17. The students, most recent high school graduates, were awarded scholarships based on a variety of factors, primarily stellar academic achievement. Also honored were the 12 Pensacola State College Student Ambassadors — always dapper in their sharp blue blazers — who are students that represent the college at various events, from college fairs to on-campus functions and receptions.
Stephen Walls cooks under the name “Walls Clay” – look him up on Facebook – and makes what he boasts is “Florida’s Biggest Food.” On Saturday, he’s serving up a 10-foot burrito to a local fire department and a couple nonprofit groups. On Wednesday, he cooked chicken on a Rolls Royce 501-D13 engine he’s converted into a smoker/grill. But it’s not just big food Walls has cooking. He’s also has big dreams. One of them is moving from the south side of the Pensacola State College Pensacola campus to the north side.
Forty-nine Pensacola State students recently were inducted into the National Technical Honor Society (PSC chapter), and when asked the hardest class they’ve taken, a handful of students offered up “CCNA’’ ─ a series of classes in the College’s cybersecurity program.
When you first open the new Pensacola State College mobile app, you see a beautiful twilight photo of the M.J. Menge Bell Tower. But it’s only there a second before it fades to the important stuff: A menu list of helpful links, including the App homepage, which is similar to the College’s website page.
Recently local businessman Sandy Sansing spoke to a group of scholarship recipients about his humble upbringing working for .25 cent tips at the old Jitney Jungle grocery store on 12th Avenue. The Sansing Scholars at the luncheon learned how now, having found financial and career success, he feels compelled to give back to others who might need just a boost to realize their dreams.
No college or university in the United States ─ public, private, big, small, hoity, plain or toity ─ sends its graduates off with less debt per student than Pensacola State College.
Pensacola State College President Ed Meadows chats with PSC students. That’s just one highlight for Pensacola State from the coveted and anticipated U.S. News & World Report’s “Best College” rankings, released Monday, Sept. 9.
Pensacola State College cosmetology student Bernadette Harned is thinking of moving to Miami to start her career after graduating in December.
If you’ve ever been curious about disc golf, come on out to the Pirates Cove Disc Golf Course on Pensacola State College’s Milton campus on Sept. 28 and let it fly.
If you’ve ever been curious about disc golf, come on out to the Pirates Cove Disc Golf Course on Pensacola State College’s Milton campus on Sept. 28 and let it fly.
Pensacola State College instructor/program director Julie Burger was doing a little part-time weekend work at Walgreens until recently.
Gail Perry knows how to find money. Little pockets of money here and there. At times, she finds enough money to fill the deepest of pockets. She’s found more than $500 million to date. And you don’t find that much money looking under couch cushions.
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