Pellissippi State Community College honored 65 students for their achievements this week and and will celebrate its almost 700 spring graduates in commencement ceremonies next month. The college will bestow 686 associate degrees and 151 certificates during ceremonies Friday, May 3, at 5 p.m. and Saturday, May 4, at 10… Read More »Pellissippi State gears up for graduation, honors students for excellence
For someone who wants to teach middle school history, Rebecca Duhamel is already on the right track. Not only will Duhamel graduate from Pellissippi State Community College on Friday with her Associate of Science in History, “she has a knack for helping her peers understand and appreciate history and its… Read More »Graduate spotlight: Rebecca Duhamel has makings of ‘a great historian’
Braeden Watkins started Pellissippi State Community College as a dual enrollment student his senior year at Bearden High School – and had such a “great experience” that he wanted to come back full time. “I really liked the environment and felt like I could fit in,” said Watkins, who graduates… Read More »Graduate spotlight: Braeden Watkins wants to treat others like professors treated him
A paid internship has led to a full-time job for a Pellissippi State Community College student who will graduate Friday. Kseniia Sulialeva, who has earned her Associate of Arts in Media Technologies/Design for Web and Print, has accepted a graphic design position at Radio Systems Corporation, 10 years after she… Read More »Graduate spotlight: Kseniia Sulialeva turns passion for art into career in graphic design
In less than 18 months, Pellissippi State has helped Benji Conner change the trajectory of his life. Conner enrolled in August 2022 thanks to Tennessee Reconnect, a last-dollar scholarship that covers tuition for adult learners after all state and federal financial aid has been applied. He will graduate Friday… Read More »Graduate spotlight: Pellissippi State sets Benji Conner on a creative path
Pellissippi State Community College will celebrate 724 summer and fall 2023 graduates with a Commencement Ceremony on Friday, Dec. 8. “It is an honor to celebrate the achievements of our graduates,” said Pellissippi State President L. Anthony Wise Jr. “They’ve done great work at Pellissippi State, and we expect them… Read More »Pellissippi State celebrates 724 graduates
Pellissippi State Community College will celebrate its 665 spring 2023 graduates in two Commencement ceremonies this week. Ceremonies will be held at 4 p.m. Friday, May 5, and 10 a.m. Saturday, May 6, both in the Hardin Valley Campus Courtyard, 10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville. Pellissippi State does not… Read More »Pellissippi State offers two Commencement ceremonies
Mae Manis had gone down many different paths on her way to Pellissippi State, not the least of which was as a firewalker. “I started firewalking at 15, I started teaching at 18 with my brother, and then I went to firewalking school and got licensed to teach by myself… Read More »Firewalker blazes new path at Pellissippi State
Nicki Spurling transferred her job from Georgia to Tennessee to be with her husband. After a few years, however, she felt she’d been putting her education on the back burner for too long, and it was time to go back to school. “I really want to do it,” she told her husband, who… Read More »Cancer diagnosis didn’t stop Spurling from finishing her degree
Sawyer Radford of Maryville wanted nothing more than to go to college, but her family faced a lot of challenges when she was growing up. Between the death of her father and the hospitalization of one of her sisters, Radford made the heartbreaking decision to withdraw from classes at Carson-Newman… Read More »Childhood challenges mold Radford into intuitive teacher
