Moria Dailey Published: March 8, 2006 “Our students here, as well as community college students in Florida, have roughly the same, if not better, GPA’s than native university students after they get A.A. [Associate in Arts] degrees and transfer,” Dr. David Sam, vice president of academic affairs at PJC, said. However, Sam explained, skills math literacy, especially scientific literacy and...
The Corsair is the student press at Pensacola State College.
New student information center provides one-stop service
Michael Rutschky Published: March 8, 2006 This semester PJC has taken the initiative to bring in new students. Recently, the student advisors were relocated to Bldg. 5 from Bldg. 2 to allow them the chance to better accommodate the needs of currently enrolled students. As the advisors moved out, they were replaced by a completely new department, one with the...
QEP team asks students for input
Moria Dailey Published: March 8, 2006 PJC is going through the reaccreditation process with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). Part of that process requires PJC to institute a Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), said Dr. June Linke, a member of the QEP team and the head of the behavioral sciences department. According to the QEP website, the project...
Decline in black college enrollment continues
Erika Wilhite Published: March 8, 2006 As minority enrollment in U.S. colleges continues to increase, the number of male students enrolling is on the decline. This gender disparity is most evident among African American students. In 2004, American Council on Education found that only 25 percent of all black men of traditional college age (ages 18 to 24) were seeking...
Anna Tomczak named distinguished artist
Published: March 8, 2006 The work of Anna Tomczak, the 2006 Anna Lamar Switzer Distinguished Artist, is now being exhibited in the gallery in Bldg. 15. Tomczak is a nationally recognized artist famous for her Polacolor image transfers.
SGA to represent students’ interest at ‘The Rally in Tally’
Moria Dailey Published: March 8, 2006 Members from the three branches of PJC’s Student Government Association plan to attend “The Rally in Tally” March 22-23 in Tallahassee. The SGA groups plan to address two major issues during the rally: a bill limiting the number of credits a student can take and the proposed DREAM Act. Senate Bill 246, sponsored by...
Students hunt for parking on Milton campus
Joshua Newby Published: March 8, 2006 Venture onto the PJC Milton campus just minutes before your class starts and well, good luck finding a parking place. By 7:15 each weekday morning, most of the good spaces are occupied. Students either have to park on the grass near the campus risking a ticket or travel much further to an available parking...
Education club donates books in honor of Dr. Suess’ birthday
Dawn Baird Published: March 8, 2006 The afternoon was filled with cookie-crumb smiles, milk mustaches, and Cat in the Hat. In honor of Theodore Seuss Geisel, a famous American writer and cartoonist best known for his Dr. Seuss books, PJC’s Education Club and the Education Honor Society Kappa Delta Pi co-sponsored a reading event March 2 at the PJC Child...
Hooked on Hold’em, the card game sweeping the globe
Melissa Brown Published: March 8, 2006 Ace-10 may not be as good as the “pocket rockets” (aces) Dental Hygiene major Michelle Moulton, 25, said “are not unbeatable but always seem to make a player feel like she can’t lose,” but LaRock keeps on playing. LaRock and Moulton join millions of players around the world in the Hold ’em craze. In...
Super heroes and war
Published: March 8, 2006 Although “Holy Terror, Batman!” may be the dark knight’s first foray into the wars of the real world, it isn’t the first time a comic book super hero has gone to war. During the late 1930s, and into the 1940s, many comic book creators showed their characters fighting the war in Europe. Joe Simon and Jack...