Category: <span>Archived News</span>

Erika Wilhite Published: January 9, 2006 PJC has been buying up property in Pensacola and South Santa Rosa County, but administrators say expansion could still take years. “We’ve been buying property on Underwood [Avenue], north of the [Pensacola Campus] for several years now,” said Carolyn Phillips, chief information officer. “We’re still in the process of...

Kersten White Published: January 9, 2006 Last year, faculty and students alike were taken aback when two separate arrests were made on PJC’s Pensacola campus. As previously reported in the Corsair, arrested were Brian Nephi McLellan, 19, PJC student and former Corsair staff member, and Peter Jacob Smith, 48, who was not a PJC student...

Moria Dailey Published: January 9, 2006 After being closed for nearly 15 months, the PJC pool has reopened with a new paint job and a brand new roof. “The worst of the damage by far was that large portions of the roof that were gone – gone to the point that you could see through...

By: Kristin Martin Published: January 8, 2009 From education to culinary arts to nursing programs, Pensacola Junior College offers students a wide variety of associate degrees, and within the next few years, students most likely will be able to receive baccalaureate degrees in some programs. About eight months ago, PJC began discussing the possibility of...

By: Erin Smallwood Published: January 8, 2009 Poor lighting and lack of communication have had students and teachers in Building 1 concerned about their safety for several years now. “My faculty has voiced concerns to me about safety issues in the building when they teach evening classes since I came here in 2000,” said Department...

By: Steven Dickens Published: January 8, 2009 A new campus organization has formed to encourage Pensacola Junior College students to consider vocational-technical careers. SkillsUSA recently held its first regional meeting of the year at PJC’s Hagler Auditorium. It was the first time PJC participated in such a meeting, held to help students and teachers learn...

By: Ashley Thompson Published: January 8, 2009 Recently, the Registrar’s Office at Pensacola Junior College has been receiving phone calls from concerned parents trying to obtain information about their child’s classes, and even grades. However, once a student enters college or any post-secondary school, the right to access information shifts from the parent to the...

Erika Wilhite Published: December 7, 2005 At around 1 p.m. on December 14th two cars were involved in a collision at the intersection on 9th Avenue and College Boulevard. An ambulance was called to the scene, but it appears that no one was seriously injured. More details will follow.

Lucretia Brown Published: December 7, 2005 There is a bumper sticker that reads, “Fish swim in fear at the sound of my name.”  Fishing is exactly what Officer Cliff Disney will be doing after he retires on Jan. 27, 2006. Disney has been a police officer at PJC for nearly seven years.  He spent four...

Moria Dailey Published: December 7, 2005 After having to cut enrollment due to lack of faculty, PJC’s nursing department is back, Department Head Janice Ingle said. “We wanted to focus on students already enrolled in the program,” Ingle said, explaining that current classes had not been cut, but new enrollees had not been accepted. In...