Grab your masks and capes! Pellissippi State Community College’s celebration of comic books, cosplay and pop culture returns March 24-25 with more vendors, more events and more fun for the whole family. The Mag Comic Expo will be held 2-7 p.m. Friday, March 24, and 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, March… Read More »Mag Comic Expo returns with additional day of pop culture awesomeness
Pellissippi State Community College and Herzing University have developed and signed a transfer articulation agreement that allows graduates of the college’s Nursing program to seamlessly transfer into the university’s Bachelor of Science in Nursing program as juniors. Pellissippi State President L. Anthony Wise Jr. and Herzing University Associate Vice President… Read More »Pellissippi State Nursing students can transfer seamlessly to Herzing University
The Knoxville area AARP Foundation will offer Tax-Aide, a free tax preparation service, at Pellissippi State Community College this spring to taxpayers of all ages and backgrounds. AARP membership is not required. Tax preparation assistance will be offered 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays in the Hardin Valley Campus Educational Resources Center… Read More »Pellissippi State Libraries offer free tax preparation service on Saturdays
After sending her daughter off to college in 2014, Tina King started having her own aspirations to return to school. “Why not? I didn’t get to finish college when I first started in 1993, so I think I’ll give it a shot,” Tina recalls. A longtime employee of the Tennessee… Read More »King’s pursuit of management degree helps her move up the ladder at TDOT
Pellissippi State Community College collected more items for its food pantry than any other community college or technical college in Tennessee for the fourth consecutive year. Pellissippi State collected the equivalent of 47,788 items in the Tennessee Board of Regents Annual Food Drive Challenge that ended this month. This almost… Read More »Pellissippi State collects most items in statewide food drive, adds toiletries and baby care products
Sawyer Radford of Maryville wanted nothing more than to go to college, but her family faced a lot of challenges when she was growing up. Between the death of her father and the hospitalization of one of her sisters, Radford made the heartbreaking decision to withdraw from classes at Carson-Newman… Read More »Childhood challenges mold Radford into intuitive teacher
An entirely female cast carries Pellissippi State’s fall Theatre production – a joint venture with Knoxville’s River & Rail Theatre Company. “The Wolves” by Sarah DeLappe, a play about teenage girls who have been playing competitive soccer together since they were children, will run Dec. 2-18 at Old City Performing… Read More »Pellissippi State Theatre partners with River & Rail for all-female play about soccer
Arconic Foundation has awarded Pellissippi State Community College $80,000 to help Blount County juniors and seniors explore advanced manufacturing careers while still in high school. The Pellissippi State Credit to Credentials pilot project includes Career and Technical Education dual enrollment opportunities for students in 11th and 12th grades at Alcoa,… Read More »Arconic Foundation helps more high schoolers take Pellissippi State dual enrollment courses
Monroe County native and longtime educator Patricia Weaver, Ed.D., has joined Pellissippi State Community College as the school’s vice president for External Affairs. Pellissippi State President L. Anthony Wise Jr. created the new position this summer as part of an organizational restructuring. External Affairs encompasses the college’s existing offices of… Read More »Pellissippi State hires Patricia Weaver as vice president for External Affairs
Pellissippi State Community College, the Tennessee College of Applied Technology Knoxville and community leaders from throughout Blount County celebrated the opening of the Ruth and Steve West Workforce Development Center with a ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday. The $16.5 million workforce development center is located on Pellissippi State’s Blount County Campus… Read More »Ruth and Steve West Workforce Development Center opens in Blount County
