Skip to content
Home » Pellissippi Pantry

Pellissippi Pantry

Pellissippi State successful in collecting donations for on-campus food pantry

Students, faculty and staff at Pellissippi State Community College led Tennessee’s community and technical colleges in a six-week challenge to collect food items for those in need. Tennessee’s public community and technical colleges annually participate in the challenge throughout the months of November and December to collect food and cash… Read More »Pellissippi State successful in collecting donations for on-campus food pantry

Canned food on shelves of Pellissippi State's new walk-in pantry, fall 2022

Pellissippi State collects most items in statewide food drive, adds toiletries and baby care products

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

Daelynn Crossno, left, and April Ellis in the Hardin Valley Campus Garden

Reviving Pellissippi State’s campus garden takes teamwork

Did you know that Pellissippi State Community College has a campus garden to help provide fresh fruit and veggies to students who face food insecurity?  Tucked behind the portable buildings next to the Student Recreation Center, the Hardin Valley Campus Garden grows produce to supplement the nonperishable food Student Care… Read More »Reviving Pellissippi State’s campus garden takes teamwork

Steve Anderton inside the Goins Administration Building

Student support services help Anderton finish what he started

In the two years Steve Anderton has been a student at Pellissippi State, he’s had six different addresses, gotten married and divorced, experienced homelessness and suffered two major illnesses. But through it all, Steve’s professors kept telling him not to give up.  “All the way through, the most common message… Read More »Student support services help Anderton finish what he started