Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
Meet Kari Hirst, director of Student Accessibility and Accommodations. She helps students with last names start with the letters R-Z who have disabilities like autism and impaired hearing become successful college students. She also helps nursing students. She said, “Students should feel comfortable reaching out to the Office of Student Accessibility and Accommodations as early […]
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All were welcomed to PVCC basketball courts on Wednesday, April 20, to play the Charlottesville Cardinals in a game of basketball. The event was hosted by Susan Hannifan, the director of student accessibility and accommodations at PVCC. This basketball game provided students with the opportunity to try out wheelchair basketball against a professional wheelchair basketball […]
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PVCC offers a wide variety of counselors and advisers for students to meet with for guidance throughout their time at the college, but one in particular specializes in working with people with disabilities. Susan Hannifan, the disabilities service counselor at PVCC, has her office in M125 and is always happy to set up an appointment […]
Continue ReadingCollege can be overwhelming, and students will often run into a number of problems during their pursuit of a degree. Luckily, PVCC hosts a series of workshops meant to help students overcome a number of challenges they may face during their education by helping them develop the skills needed for academic success. In this particular […]
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Deadra Miller, online editor On Wednesday Oct. 17, the Charlottesville Cardinals came to PVCC to play a pick up game of basketball. The Cardinals are a wheelchair basketball team that travel all over the United States playing pick up and competitive games. “The Cardinals have been ranked in the Sweet Sixteen of the NWBA for […]
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Bryn Dotson, assistant editor When back-to-school banners are pasted all over grocery stores and syllabus after syllabus is released, it can sometimes feel overwhelming. School can be incredibly rewarding at times, but it can also challenge students. PVCC offers a wide variety of free resources to help them achieve their goals. Writing a paper? Any […]
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Mathew Fragola, staff writer Sports are for everybody, regardless of physical disabilities. That is why on Wednesday, April 18, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., PVCC hosted an event for students and staff to play in a pickup game of wheelchair basketball with the Charlottesville Cardinals. “Charlottesville Cardinals teach students people with […]
Continue ReadingJesus Duran Reyes, staff writer Disability Services counselor Susan Hannifan can be found in room M125 in PVCC’s main building, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every weekday. She also offers services through email any day of the week. Those seeking aid will have to provide documentation of either psychological, educational, or medical evaluations to […]
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Charles Stish, staff writer For the past eight years, Charlottesville’s local National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) team, the Cardinals, have visited Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) once a semester. With them, they bring a small box trailer full of wheelchairs so PVCC students can play against them on the pavement of PVCC’s basketball court. This […]
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Antonia Florence, staff writer Disability Services Coordinator Susan Hannifan is dedicated to helping students at PVCC achieve a barrier-free education. She strives to reach out to students who have self-identified, have a formal recommendation from previous educational facilities, or have been referred by outside agencies as having a learning or physical disability which inhibits the […]
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