Karen Young already had more than 10 years of nursing experience when she joined the U.S. Navy Reserve as a commissioned officer in 1994.
By the time Young joined Pensacola State College’s nursing faculty in 2007, she had already served in numerous leadership positions in the Navy Reserve. Still, her greatest professional achievements wouldn’t come until she was well-entrenched at PSC.
What’s the most important number in existence? Some will default to Pi, others to Euler’s number and maybe a few might even go with 137, a number some smart folks have theorized could help physicists unravel the grail-like grand unified theory long sought.
(And, of course, there’s 42 for all the fans of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”)
Pensacola State College political science instructor Robert Thead goes in a different direction. But don’t doubt his alternative, because Thead is one of the smart folks too.
You might be barbecuing. You might be beaching, golfing or just chillaxing at home.
Just please take a minute at 3 p.m. to pause and focus on the price of freedom and those who paid that price. It truly is the very least we can do for those sacrificed their lives in war.
Monday, May 30, is Memorial Day. Pensacola State College is closed for the federal holiday which honors those military service members who have died while serving in the U.S. armed forces.
The Pensacola State College Veterinary Technology Program has sent another 11 graduates out into the workforce. They’ll help care for our pets and animals in communities for years to come.
The students earned their Veterinary Technology Vocational Pins at a ceremony on May 5 and graduated with Associate of Science in Veterinary Technology degrees during PSC’s commencement ceremony on May 8.
Workday Student is doing just what its name suggests. The new enterprise resource planning system is making registration easier, streamlining financial aid processes and ensuring that every student gets an academic adviser before classes even begin.
More than 800 students have already used Workday Student to register for the fall semester, said Michael Johnston, PSC Associate Vice President Research and Management.
On your mark, get set – paint! Or is it lights, camera – tumble?
OK, we’re getting our kids camp activities mixed up. It’s easy to do. Because there are plenty of great and varying camp sessions still available for the 32nd Pensacola State College Kids College, which begins Monday, June 6.
For most of their lives, sisters Brittany Burleson and Alicia Stephens have been best friends who did many things together.
On Sunday, May 8, the two graduated from Pensacola State College with their Associate of Science degrees in Dental Hygiene.
The Pensacola State College softball team’s season ended Sunday, May 8, when it lost 3-2 to Florida Southwestern State College in the Division I FCSAA State/NJCAA South Atlantic District Tournament in Longwood.
Pensacola State won two games and lost two in the double-elimination tournament. The College of Central Florida, the team that would eventually win the state tournament, handed the Lady Pirates their first loss, beating PSC 6-1 on May 7.
The tournament was held May 6-9.
Pensacola State College business instructor Michael Payne’s Strategic Management capstone course is pretty much fun and games.
The fun comes from being successful in an endeavor that will bring students a step closer to earning a Dr. Marjan Mazza Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Business and Management.
There were supposed to be 95 Pensacola State College students walking up to have their nursing pins pinned upon them at the Thursday, May 5, ceremony.
Yet in the seat where Jessica Cornelius should have been, there was only her framed portrait. When during his remarks, PSC President Ed Meadows told the students to look back toward their family and friends in the audience who had supported them during their academic journey, there was no sweet face that smiled and waved in gratitude to Jessica’s family.
This is the way it’s supposed to be. This is the grand plan fulfilled.
Sixteen Pensacola State College student-athletes signed National Letters of Intent on Friday, April 29, committing to play and study at colleges and universities that range from NAIA schools to Division 1 programs.
The signing ceremony was held in a packed Donn Peery Room at Hartsell Arena on the Pensacola campus, attended by teammates, family members, PSC coaches and coaches and representatives from the various schools the student-athletes will attend.
Nursing pinning ceremony to be held May 5
Pensacola State College will hold Spring 2022 nursing pinning and graduation on Thursday, May 5, and Sunday, May 8, respectively.
Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing and Associate of Science degree in Nursing graduates will be pinned during a 3 p.m. ceremony on Thursday at First Pentecostal Church, 6485 Pensacola Blvd., Pensacola.
Jermel Kidd has been practicing his classical piano chops for hours each day preparing for an audition that will propel him forward.
On Friday, May 5, Kidd, a Pensacola State College piano student, will audition for faculty from the University of West Florida Dr. Grier Williams School of Music. Kidd, 38, is hoping to earn acceptance and a scholarship.
“I’ve been practicing for about eight hours a day,’’ said Kidd, a former police officer who is the music director for Transformation Church on Mobile Highway. “I play gospel and jazz. But (the audition) is all classical and it was a little out of my element. It’s been nonstop practice and study.”
More than 30 Pensacola State College stellar students received a share of $40,000 in Cantonment Rotary Club scholarships on Wednesday, April 27.
The total award was the largest the Cantonment Rotary Club has given to PSC students, said Ray Asherfeld, Cantonment Rotary Club Foundation chairman. Since 1991, the Rotary Club has provided $62,253.25 in scholarships to 150 to 200 PSC students.
It was a little jarring, for sure.
A small cadre of Pirates with what looked like fencing sabers in hand were following commands and lead of a fiery, auburn-haired commander.
En garde! Then an advance!
Ishan Kendall has neither a car nor a home.
But he does have a diploma.
Kendall, 35, is a current resident of the Waterfront Rescue Mission where he is in the Life Builder Recovery Program. He never received a high school diploma after his life was derailed by drugs and crime.
Nursing is a noble and honorable profession ─ but it’s not for everyone. Even nurses will tell you that.
Danny Nguyen started at Pensacola State College as a nursing student, but it just wasn’t a good fit. Instead, he enrolled in the College’s Visual Arts Program and has blossomed as a graphic design artist.
Vogue magazine would be fortunate to have a cover as striking and visually compelling as the mock cover created by Pensacola State College graphic design student Aubrey Dean.
Dean’s three digital paintings that were then transformed into a mock cover and advertisements for Vogue won “Best in Show” at the 2022 PSC Art Student Honors Exhibition Award Ceremony.
The ceremony was held on April 14 in the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts. Twenty students won awards, all coming with some sort of cash, product prize or scholarship. Dean won $300 for Best in Show, which is voted on by PSC Visual Arts Department faculty.
It’s a staggering figure ─ $11 million. That was the goal of Pensacola State College’s second-in-history capital campaign. The final tally was more staggering, more tremendous ─ $12.6 million, $1.6 million over goal.
And it took 1,329 generous and visionary donors to bring that $12.6 million to PSC.
PSC President Ed Meadows toasted the donors to the College’s “Your Community-Your Legacy” Capital Campaign at a celebration on Thursday, April 20, in the Charles W. Lamar Studio Gallery.
Principal Karen McCabe is eager to welcome up to 150 high school juniors and seniors to the new Pensacola State College Charter Academy on Aug. 8.
“There’s still a lot to do to get ready, but we’re excited,’’ said McCabe, who was selected to lead the new academy after nearly five years as director of the College’s South Santa Rosa Center.
“It’s going to be more technology-based and interactive than many other high schools and will allow these students to pursue their high school diploma and associate degree at the same time.”
Lisa Payne admits that sometimes she still slips up and says “PJC” instead of “PSC,’’ even though Pensacola Junior College became Pensacola State College in 2010. You can’t really blame her.
She has worked at the College for 43 years – and for more than 30 of those years, it was PJC, so it is understandable. And before she came to work at the College as a 19-year-old, she was already a student, earning a career certificate in stenography in 1979
More than 100 Pensacola State College students were honored for achievements in academics, leadership, service and volunteerism at the 2022 PSC Student Excellence Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, April 20, in the Jean and Paul Amos Performance Studio at WSRE-TV.
The crumbs and remnants of Micah Cain’s work and toil are caked across his apron, and often, on his well-worn jeans and T-shirt.
Cain is Pensacola State College’s ceramics instructor, coming to the College in fall 2019.
They look a little like telephone booths. (Consult an elderly person or encyclopedia if you’re not sure what a phone booth is.) But instead, they’re portable study pods – places of individual academic refuge where students can study alone and use personal computers for online classes.
From the Desk of the President:
This message is to share information with everyone at the College about this year’s legislative session and to discuss enrollment trends.
There will be models sashaying and showing off spectacularly artistic and creative hair and makeup designs at the Pensacola State College “Dream On Hair Show” at 11 a.m. Thursday, April 21 at the Hagler Auditorium, Building 2A, on the Pensacola campus.
If you’re registering for summer classes at Pensacola State College, you’ll be going old school.
But students registering for fall classes will use – and are already using – Workday Student for everything from admissions and registration to financial aid and advising.
The Workday Student enterprise resource planning system replaces the legacy Spyglass system, which will be phased out. Students registering for summer classes will still use Spyglass, though all the information in that system is being transferred to the new Workday Student system.
The fall semester begins Aug. 15. Summer classes begin May 11.
Pensacola State College Woman’s Basketball Assistant Coach Rachel Barnes has been named World Exposure Report’s NJCAA Assistant Coach of the Year.
Two of the team’s star players, Tai’Sheka Porchia and Kristin Williams also received post-season honors. Porchia was named a Woman Basketball Coaches Association All-American, while Williams received an All-American Honorable Mention honor.
Eldon Norman began his collegiate career at then-Pensacola Junior College in the early 1960s, earning an Associate of Arts degree in 1963.
Now, many Pensacola State College students – the College changed its name in 2010 – will start their own collegiate career at the Eldon L. Norman Educational Opportunity Center.
The Educational Opportunity Center (EOC) was renamed in Norman’s honor at a ceremony attended by relatives and PSC administrators and staff on Monday, April 11.
It’s an easy trip from Pensacola State College to the University of West Florida – a few miles, a few minutes. Now, the journey from PSC to UWF is even easier.
Six of Pensacola State College’s best educators were treated like rock stars at a dinner in their honor on Tuesday, April 5.
They were feted and toasted, and their achievements celebrated at the Academy of Teaching Excellence dinner in the Molly McGuire Culinary Arts Dining Room on the Pensacola campus.
Five instructors were inducted into the 2022 PSC Academy of Teaching Excellence:
David Alexander – Adult Education
Dr. Stephen Gottschalk – Natural Sciences
Dr. Alex Ledgerwood – English and Communications
Lauren Rogers – Natural Sciences
Dr. Brian Ward – Business
Also, Humanities and Social Sciences instructor Robert Thead was named Outstanding New Faculty Member.
Just three weeks into his teaching career at Pensacola State College – and his first face-to-face teaching gig anywhere – Dr. Brian Ward underwent emergency surgery for stage 3 colon cancer just a day after being diagnosed. The cancer had advanced to that extent.
The surgery was supposed to last four hours – it took eight. He was so bad off surgeons had to stop the procedure four times to regulate Ward’s blood pressure.
Eleven days later, Ward, PSC Lead Human Resources Professor and a retired U.S. Air Force veteran, was in front of his students teaching class.
That was five years ago. Today, Ward said his doctor considers his cancer “cured,’’ though it is not in remission.
Pensacola State College student Katelyn Powell is taking seven classes this semester. Six are Math and Science-based classes – she plans on going to Medical School – and one is Music Appreciation.
“The Music Appreciation class is the hardest class for me,” Katelyn said. “I can’t hear something and just understand the difference between the noises. It’s been hard.”
Yikes, that’s going to hurt a stellar 3.9 grade point average, isn’t it?
Dr. Sueann L. Donahue is known as a teacher’s teacher. She’s retired now and in less-than-stellar health, but her passion for teaching remains.
An endowed scholarship in her name will now help the next generation of educators studying at Pensacola State College
The Dr. Sueann L. Donahue Beginning Teacher Endowed Scholarship was established in 2019. The first scholarships were awarded in spring 2021. The endowment total is $25,001.
“This was a lifetime goal for Sueann,’’ said her husband, Chuck Donahue, a former engineering technology instructor at Pensacola Junior College, which became Pensacola State College in 2010. He taught at the College from 1985 to 2002.
The best pieces from Pensacola State College’s best art students are now on display at the Switzer Gallery in the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts on the Pensacola campus.
The Art Student Honors Exhibition showcases 96 artworks in a variety of media, including ceramics, drawing, painting, digital design, photography and sculpture. The exhibition opened April 4 and runs through April 22.
The reception and prize ceremony for the exhibition is set for 5-7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14. The exhibition was open to all two-year visual arts students.
CONGRATULATIONS 2022 RECIPIENTS! The annual Student Excellence Awards recognizes and honors some of Pensacola State College’s many outstanding students. Over 200 students are recognized this year for their achievements and reflect the theme of a Tradition of Excellence. ALL FLORIDA ACADEMIC TEAM All-Florida Academic Team recipients are recognized by the Florida College System for their…
Principal Karen McCabe is eager to welcome up to 150 high school juniors and seniors to the new Pensacola State College Charter Academy on Aug. 8
Pensacola State College’s “100 for 100” program volunteers have raised $16,120 during the current campaign to raise money for student scholarships.
The Gulf Coast Pirate Swimmers Team ─ made up of adults taking swim classes at Pensacola State College ─ won first place among mid-size teams at the 2022 Auburn Masters SCY Invitational held March 19-20 at Auburn University.
Two of the top four sports in the 12th annual Student Jazz Competition’s Collegiate Instrumental category were claimed by Pensacola State College music students.
The Lowrey Family established the Kyle Alden Lowrey Memorial Endowed Scholarship in 2007 to honor Kyle and to follow through with one of his own goals and desires – to help Pensacola State College and its students.
The Pensacola State College softball team is ranked 9th in the nation and is currently the top team in the Panhandle Conference.
Pensacola State College has been awarded a nearly $12 million grant to fund construction of Phase II of the replacement of the Mary Ellison Baars building, which was demolished in 2019.
Hannah Clarke’s abstract photo “At Twilight” was named the winner of the Pensacola State College Sunset Photography Contest on Monday, March 7, during a short ceremony at Jaco’s Bayfront Bar & Grille.
The high school principals and guidance counselors who attended the information session luncheon at the Pensacola State College Milton campus on March 2 probably didn’t expect there would be a quiz. Actually a few quizzes.
“I’m going to make it big someday, you watch,” said Rivera, one of 25 PSC students who were awarded an African American Memorial Endowment Scholarship or a Dr. Garrett T. Wiggins “Live Your Dream” Scholarship at a special ceremony on March 4 in the Jean and Paul Amos Performance Studio at WSRE-TV.
Pensacola State College has been named a 2022-2023 Gold Military Friendly® School by Viqtory Media.
Four prominent and generous Pensacola families have collectively given $1 million to fund scholarships for STEM-related programs at Pensacola State College.
Two new endowment scholarships at Pensacola State College have been created by longtime supporters of the College.
Retired Pensacola neurosurgeon Dr. Troy Tippett always appreciated Pensacola State College. After all, many of the nurses he worked with in his decades-long career were graduates of the College’s Nursing Program.
On March 4, the scholarship winners will be recognized at a special ceremony in the Jean and Paul Amos Performance Studio at WSRE-TV.
Pensacola State College offers more than 300 scholarships to eligible students and numerous financial aid opportunities.
Pensacola State has earned a reputation as a great College to earn an education or learn a trade to go directly into the workforce.
The United Way of West Florida has launched its annual workplace campaign and Pensacola State College is ready to meet the challenge.
GPSI will hold an open house for students enrolled in PSC Engineering Technology programs from 4:30-6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23, Building 11, Room 1154, on the Pensacola campus.
Pensacola State College students who participated in the recent two-week Workday Student mock semester gave the new system high marks.
The Pensacola chapter of Jack and Jill of America Inc. recently donated $150 along with nonperishable food items to the Pensacola State College Food Pantry.
Pensacola State College has unveiled an exciting lineup of special events in celebration of Black History Month.
Pensacola State College will commemorate the African Diaspora with a cultural event set for 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 16, in the Delaino Student Center, Building 5, on the Pensacola campus.
Pensacola State College’s online RN to BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) Program continues to be among the best.
Tanya Brashers was a good student in high school back in Yazoo City, Mississippi. But she really didn’t see a path to college.
The giant ceremonial scissors are sharp and ready. More importantly, the new Baars Technology Building is looking sharp and ready for an April 9 ribbon cutting ceremony that will signal a new chapter in Pensacola State College’s 73-year history.
The giant ceremonial scissors are sharp and ready. More importantly, the new Baars Technology Building is looking sharp and ready for an April 9 ribbon cutting ceremony that will signal a new chapter in Pensacola State College’s 73-year history.
The first shovels hit the dirt at the Pensacola State College Truck Driver Training Facility in late September 2021 during the groundbreaking ceremony for the $7.8 million facility.
Pensacola State College is holding an Adult Student Information Session at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 18.
The 2022 Pensacola Finger Style Acoustic Guitar Competition is set for 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 19, in the Pensacola State College Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium.
If you’re a PSC student and can play an instrument, Holsworth would love for you to come join the PSC College Concert Band – sometimes referred to as the Wind Ensemble – or the PSC Jazz Ensemble.
Two new art exhibitions will open at Pensacola State College on Thursday, Jan. 6, one featuring a talented art instructor and the other showcasing the work of an artist inspired by the past and present while employing a style that was first used in medieval times and which flourished during the Renaissance.
Troy Watts knows if his creation “Dribbles the All-Knowing Cat” is doing its job in educating children.
Recent Pensacola State College graduate Anthony McGriff II is going places.
On Thursday, Dec. 9, Rebecca Shutz received her Nursing Pin, becoming a full-fledged RN, at a Pinning Ceremony at First Pentecostal Church in Pensacola. She was one of 69 Associate of Science in Nursing students who were pinned, as were 20 nurses who have earned a Practical Nursing Career Certificate.
They are called “Change Makers” for a reason – they change lives.
Nursing pinnings, GED graduation to be held Dec. 9 Mary Mabins, Pensacola State College Pensacola State College will hold nursing pinnings and graduation ceremonies on Thursday, Dec. 9, and Sunday, Dec. 12, respectively. Summer and fall Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Associate of Science degree in Nursing and Practical Nursing program graduates will be pinned…
Please join us December 9 at 4:30 p.m. for Circle/Cycle, A performance by Lauren Woods, with Lori Bilbrey-Vaghefi and Ava Reding. Original music by Erin Cross. Circle dances have been a part of human culture for thousands of years. Performed as rites of passage, an invocation of change, or a mode of community ritual, the circle embodies aspects…
PSC’s Bachelor of Applied Science senior art exhibition set for Dec. 6-10 ‘How Design Makes Us Think, Feel, and Do Things’ is the title of Pensacola State College’s 2021 Marjan Mazza Bachelor of Applied Science in Business and Management – Graphic Design Senior Exhibition. Set for Dec. 6-10, the exhibition is in the Switzer Gallery…
Pensacola State College will host Discover Pensacola State from 4-5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 8, in the Student Center, Building 5, on the Pensacola campus.
In remarks to recipients of the Pensacola State College 2021 Employee Service Awards, College President Ed Meadows noted the importance of tradition.
Maria Tibbetts is a U.S. Marine Corps sergeant, a heavy equipment operator, a wife and a Pensacola State College student-athlete.
If you’re going to a swanky ball, you want to have your hair all gussied up.
PSC’s new Immersive Technology Room is where instructors can recreate dozens of virtual environments that can in assist in health care training.
Troy Moon, Pensacola State College Pensacola State College will close on Veterans Day – Thursday, Nov. 11 – to honor the College’s military veterans and all veterans of the United States military. PSC’s own Robb Gregg, the director of Veterans Upward Bound, is Grand Marshall for the annual Veterans Day Parade in Downtown Pensacola. The…
On Oct. 28, 11 of the College’s best Professional and Career Service staff members were honored at the 2021 Employee of the Year ceremony held in the G. Thomas Delaino Student Center on the Pensacola campus.
Under first-year coach Patricia Gandolfo, the 2021 Pirate team finished the regular season with a 13-5 conference record and is playoff-bound. The team finished 16-5 overall.
WSRE’s documentary on Northwest Florida’s favorite singing son Hank Locklin has been nominated for a 2021 Suncoast Regional Emmy.
Pensacola State College solidified its long-standing reputation of academic excellence by earning ongoing national reaccreditation for the Nursing RN Associate in Science Degree Program through 2029.
Throughout the 1960s and continuing until the mid-1970s, small waves of active duty U.S. Marines would land at then-Pensacola Junior College each semester.
More than 100 other volunteers, turned out Saturday to help construct 20 sets of bunk beds for Sleep In Heavenly Peace.
Pensacola business icon Sandy Sansing has helped more than 1,100 Pensacola State College students with nearly $500,000 in financial assistance since he established the Sansing Universal Scholarship in 2002.
Jacob Kayl and his mother Audra Kayl-Woodruff have a good-natured academic rivalry going on.
Twenty students were honored at the second “Recognizing Excellence” reception held Oct. 12 on the Pensacola campus.
The 32nd Annual Northwest Florida Forestry Conclave Lumberjack Festival on Saturday, Oct. 9, featured folks throwing axes and knives, cross-country runners racing through woods and disc golfers throwing at target baskets in the same woods.
A proposed Pensacola State College Conference and Training Center has more than $750,000 in pledges from some of the institution’s most loyal supporters.
Pensacola State College’s transition to the Workday enterprise resource planning system reached another goal on Friday, Oct. 1, when the first stage of Workday Student went live.
Pensacola State College administrators delivered copies of its nearly 400-page charter school application to the Escambia County School District on Friday, Oct. 1.
Pensacola State honors Academy of Teaching Excellence inductees
The first shovels have hit the dirt at the location of the soon-to-be built $7.8 million Pensacola State College Truck Driver Training Facility in Santa Rosa Industrial Park East in rural East Milton.
Pensacola State College’s Director of Student Affairs Kathleen “Katie” Hudon has never stopped trying to better herself or her community.
Central Credit Union of Florida has pledged $100,000 over a five-year period to the Pensacola State College Athletics Department.
On Wednesday, Sept. 22, Pensacola State College, partnering with CareerSource Escarosa, presented its annual Job Fair at the WSRE-TV Jean and Paul Amos Performance Studio.
Get those flannel shirts ready! It’s Lumberjack Festival time!
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