Category: <span>Archived News</span>

Michael Rutschky Published: February 22, 2006 This year PJC plans to spend more than $48.4 million to maintain its operations.  In order for the school to organize its funds and plan for the upcoming fiscal year, the faculty must decide upon an operating budget. The budget itself is compiled by various areas of the administration,...

Erika Wilhite Published: February 22, 2006 On Feb. 21, 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in the case of Hosty v. Carter, which questions the authority of a college or university’s administrators to censor any form of student speech, such as a newspaper, publishing articles critical of the school or its...

Michael Rutschky Published: February 22, 2006 The use of personal computers in educational environments has gone from being   beneficial to practically essential.  PJC has 2,500 PCs across all the campuses. In certain areas, such as the visual arts department, personal computers play a very large role in the curriculum.  If those computers were to fall...

Madelain Tigano “This is a battle and maybe even a war. But it should not be a battle or a war with ourselves. It should be with the economy,” PJC President Dr. Ed Meadows said during a state of the college address Feb. 20 during All College Day. “Everyone at the college, in Pensacola, Florida,...

Ashley Thompson On College Goal Sunday, Feb. 22, over 200 students sought the help of volunteers across all Pensacola Junior College campuses to get a head start in applying for financial aid for the 2009-10 school year. For the past three years, it was made possible by a grant through the Department of Education. However,...

Amnesty Day, which offers Santa Rosa County residents the opportunity to dispose of household hazardous waste at no charge, is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 28. Amnesty Day is not a recycle day, but a special day for disposal of household hazardous waste. Materials will also be accepted from conditionally exempt small quantity...

Bridges to Circles is a Unite Escambia collaborative begun by the Escambia County Health Department, Partnership for a Healthy Community, and the United Way. In 2008 Catholic Charities became the lead agency for the Circles program and is committed to implementing the Circles model throughout the community. The goal of Bridges to Circles is a...

PJC is again partnering with the IRS and the United Way to provide free income tax prep and electronic filing. This will be for simple returns only, no schedule C, rental income, etc. Services will start Feb. 4 thru April 14, 2009. The hours are Monday thru Friday 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.  The service is located...

Niko Castillo and Moria Dailey Published: February 8, 2006 Only 50.7 percent of college graduates are satisfied with their current career, reports a recent study performed by the Consumer Research Center for the Conference Board in New York.ÿ If this continues, that means half of us are destined to work merely for paychecks and not...

Moria Dailey Published: February 8, 2006 PJC student Braden Bowers, 18, was killed Thursday in an auto accident on I-10. Bowers was driving in the eastbound lane when a van began to merge into his lane, forcing him to swerve.  He lost control of his vehicle and spun into the westbound lane, where he was...