Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
For over a decade, a small tamed patch of the PVCC grounds has been growing and evolving. What began as a garden started by a single student and a few co-advisors, with plants being grown directly out of bags of soil, has evolved into a community of its own. “We started out with no fence, […]
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Art and imagination come into play in the art 121 Intro to Drawing class. Next semester there are three classes, two of which are online. The only in-person class in the spring is led by the Assistant Professor of art Aaron Miller. In this art class, people learn basic drawing skills to bring the paper […]
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As college students work towards taking classes to fulfill diploma requirements for their respective majors, many classes are tailored to specific degrees. With ECO 202, however, this is not the case. Not only does this economics course help students, principally adults, in understanding the financial world that surrounds them, but it also provides crucial business […]
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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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