Month: September 2010

The Board of Trustees continued to deliberate over the vacant Area 5 Seat on Wednesday evening as the Courier went to press.

With its fresh coat of paint barely dry, PCC’s brand new Veterans Resource Center swung open its doors to new and returning student veterans this semester.

Project LEAP has paired PCC students with volunteer mentors for 24 years. This year, it has partnered with the PCC women’s basketball team to encourage athletes to embrace scholastic achievement.

PCC’s Program for Academic Support Services (Pass), a service and support program for low-income, first generation, and disabled students has received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education TRIO project.

PCC counselor and professor of 22 years, Ward died due to a pulmonary infection while vacationing in London on Aug. 21.

A brand new program at PCC plans to help international students adapt to their new life in the U.S. and encourage American students to learn foreign customs.

Similar to the indecisiveness that most students experience their freshman year in college, PCC Professor Andrea P. Murray began her college education not knowing what career she wanted to pursue. Yet it took one required course to captivate her interest in a rewarding career that has taken her to many locations around the world.

In the 1950s most people wrote letters, knew the postal worker, took the time to bake their new neighbors cookies and socialized on a more personal level. Now, in the days of e-mail, texting and the Internet, socializing has become “social networking.

The Child Development Center on campus will be using the Child and Adult Care Food Program again in 2010.

Students of all backgrounds fill the classrooms of PCC today, but 40 years ago such diversity was not widespread.