Female in yellow dress dancing with maracas and large red flowers in her hands.

A row of 4 younger students of all races and gender smiling

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Access and Diversity
Gayle Wood, Director
Goins 162

10915 Hardin Valley Road
Knoxville, TN 37933

865.539.7160

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Multicultural Resource Room
Goins 162
Monday-Friday: 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- former President Jimmy Carter

Diversity celebrates our uniqueness as individuals. It affirms the individual strengths, gifts, personalities, challenges and differences each faculty, staff, and student brings to this institution. Pellissippi State embraces diversity both as an institutional goal and as an esteemed value of this institution.

Austin East High School African Dance group performing at our 2013 Festival of Cultures.

Rice art of a flower on the floor

Rongoli Floor Art (Indian Folk Art)
Designed by Pellissippi State students, Sridevi Ponnuchamy and Niloo Ranjan

Pellissippi State is a vital institution accustomed to transformation and growth. Since its founding in 1974 as State Technical Institute at Knoxville, the College has expanded the teaching of technology, the use of technology in instruction, and the transfer of technology to local business and industry in support of regional economic development.

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10915 Hardin Valley Road
P.O. Box 22990
Knoxville, TN 37933-0990
865.694.6400

Pellissippi State Community College is an AA/EEO employer and does not discriminate
on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities. Non-Discrimination Policy.

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