Leila Howell: Alumni volunteer extraordinaire

Lesli Bales-SherrodOur Town Neighbors

Leila Howell has won the 2020 Peggy Wilson Volunteer Alumni Award at Pellissippi State Community College, sponsored and announced this year by Discovery Inc. This honor highlights an outstanding graduate in recognition …

Pellissippi State starts construction on Blount center

Lesli Bales-SherrodOur Town Leaders

Pellissippi State Community College broke ground Oct. 23 on its new Ruth and Steve West Workforce Development Center, a joint project with Tennessee College of Applied Technology Knoxville.
The 51,000-square-foot building on the college’s Blount County …

Live radio ahead from Pellissippi students

Lesli Bales-SherrodOur Town Youth

Theatre companies across the country have had to get creative during the coronavirus pandemic, performing plays over video communication platforms or in open outdoor spaces.
But when brainstorming how Pellissippi State Community College could …

Big Ears gets new life with livestreamed concerts

Lesli Bales-SherrodOur Town Youth

Pellissippi State Community College’s media technologies faculty and students are directing, filming, recording, photographing and engineering Sites & Sounds from Big Ears, a series of intimate concerts at the historic Bijou Theatre.
The initiative …

PSCC student is ‘Leader of Promise’

Lesli Bales-SherrodOur Town Youth

Moriah Hall, a new student orientation leader at Pellissippi State, has been named a 2020 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholar. Hall, an accounting major, is one of 207 Phi Theta Kappa members named a 2020 Coca-Cola Leaders …

Music and more at lifelong learning program

Lesli Bales-SherrodOur Town Youth

Pellissippi State Community College’s Business and Community Services is offering virtual music classes this fall. These noncredit classes are open to the public.
In late March, when the college moved to remote instruction due to the …

Newell Brands partners with PSCC for apprenticeship

Lesli Bales-SherrodOur Town Youth

Pellissippi State Community College is making it easier for area businesses to start apprenticeship programs for new and current employees.
Newell Brands, located in Maryville, kicked off a new apprenticeship program this summer, with Pellissippi State as the sponsor. While Pellissippi State has been supporting apprenticeships with …