Month: <span>December 2008</span>

By Nekeita Taylor-Hunley Published on December 5, 2007 The Pensacola Junior College Faculty Association is set to renegotiate its collective bargaining agreement in the spring of 2008. At the top of the list of priorities is better pay for faculty instructors. The collective bargaining agreement is a contract between the district Board of Trustees and...

By Katie Coseo Published on December 5, 2007 It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and unfortunately the most fattening. No offense to your grandmother’s sweet potato pie and uncle Vern’s famous turkey gravy, but this is the time of the year when you throw your New Year’s resolution for eating healthy out the...

By Carmela Moorman Published on December 5, 2007 Pensacola Junior College offers a wide variety of healthy activities for college students of any age on campus. Students, faculty and staff can start with any of these options that PJC has to offer: a fully-equipped weight room; six lighted tennis courts; six lighted racquetball courts; a...

By Jade Lantz Published on December 5, 2007 Ben Johnson, 17, a high school senior dual enrolled at PJC, is enduring a rigid training program in order to participate in a strenuous athletic competition, The Ford Ironman, in Panama City the first week of December, 2008. In between classes, work, and hanging out with friends,...

By Brenda Savage Published on December 5, 2007 It is generally assumed that most people interested in computers are men, when in fact the first computer programmer was a woman, Augusta Byron, countess of Lovelace.  It is out of the ordinary to find a smart, articulate, and attractive woman like Elizabeth “Liz” Gomez, director of...