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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 […]
Continue ReadingEver since 2018, NASCAR has been making changes to their season schedules more times than any other form of motorsport in the world, since that time, NASCAR has made schedule changes left and right, from bringing back tracks that are old favorites, to adding brand new tracks, and removing tracks that have been popular for […]
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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 […]
Continue ReadingIn response to the restrictions of COVID-19 safety guidelines, ballet companies have shifted towards digital performances that viewers can watch from home. I sat down with Cody Davis of the Richmond ballet company to talk about how COVID-19 has affected her ability to perform. One of the biggest changes was performing in a mask. Davis […]
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Instantly recognizable by any PVCC student or faculty member for his distinctive neatly-trimmed, starting-to-gray beard, his warm smile and prominent position as the Phi Theta Kappa honor society faculty adviser, Bruce Robinson has been a valued member of the community ever since he began working at PVCC in 1979. Now, after 42 years of teaching, […]
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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 […]
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