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Patricia Jassmann, adjunct assistant professor of German, sat outside the north entrance of PVCC. She wore pink pants and a rich-purple shirt covered by a silver blazer that looked almost like reflected snow or metal. As Jassmann talked, gesturing, and taking occasional sips of water, black birds chirped and swam through the air. She discussed […]
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The lights dimmed in room M174 as the Anime Club started to watch a show on Friday Oct. 29. The screen lit up as vibrant scenes danced across the display. Simple lines created fast paced sword fights and panning shots of sun capped villages. Anime is a style of Japanese film and animation. It stems […]
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Amid a plethora of services provided to students, the sustainability committee stands out without drawing too much attention. PVCC provides many services and committees for the benefit of their students such as veteran services, academic tutoring, and workforce services. Most of these services are obvious in their aid towards students, but that is not the […]
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On Wednesday Sept. 8, the Bolick Student Center was packed with people, a rare sight in the era of social distancing. But that day was special. It was PVCC’s club day. Lining the hallway from the Bolick Student Center past the library were dozens of tables, each festooned with eye-catching displays and distinctive and often […]
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PVCC offers immense amounts of support for its students during their time at the college. One of the many great support systems PVCC has in place is academic coaching. Academic coaching is meeting up with a tutor at PVCC to help students create a plan for how they can improve their skills for academic success. […]
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The Student Financial Resource Center (SFRC) offers many different tools to help students succeed in life and in school. When you do not have enough money for food or good clothes but need a job and energy for school, it is hard. This can create a never-ending cycle of needing resources to get the resources […]
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For the Fall 2021 semester, PVCC’s One Book Program has taken aim at misinformation and fake news. And the selected book, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, by Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, is available for every student and staff member on campus to read digitally, a first for the One Book Program. […]
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Each semester, PVCC assembles a collection of student art to showcase the hard work and dedication of students taking various art classes. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, it has become a bit more complicated for students to take in-person art classes or have their works displayed in their usual gallery in […]
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“How do we continue to tell students when they’ve had to enroll at a distance — who may have never set foot on campus — that we are still here and that we still care?” This was the question that Student Development Instructor Meg Foster and Director of Academic Support Services Todd Parks were pondering […]
Continue ReadingOn March 24, a diverse assortment of faculty members and students gathered on Zoom for PVCC’s Deliberative Dialogue, “A House Divided,” as part of PVCCs’s recent Civic Engagement Conference. The National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that publishes issue guides for deliberative dialogues. NIFI defines “deliberation” in the context of these […]
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