Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
Skye Scott, assistant editor After three years of joining clubs, participating in classes, and interacting with peers and professors, I am finally graduating in Spring 2018. As I look back on the years at PVCC, there are many lessons I wish I could pass on. But, for lack of space and time, here are a […]
Continue ReadingTo help parents combat the hefty costs of sending their children to college, Governor Bob McDonnell added a proposal to his “ Opportunity to Learn” education agenda. Announced Jan. 9, proposition HB1184 would expand Virginia’s dual enrollment program. The current dual enrollment program offered in Virginia high schools allows junior and senior students to take […]
Continue ReadingDuring a Feb. 25 meeting with tea party members in Mich., potential Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum drew a conclusion more alarming than his Google search results: President Obama is a “snob” because “he wants everybody in America to go to college.” Santorum was referencing a statement the President made during a 2009 joint session […]
Continue ReadingJohn Lubbock, a 19th century banker and early supporter of Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, once said, “We may sit in our library and yet, be in all quarters of the earth.” The Betty Sue Jessup Library at Piedmont Virginia Community College is working to make this quote ring true, both inside and outside the […]
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