Some Pellissippi State graduates have jobs lined up after graduation. Some have plans to transfer to four-year institutions. But for Katharine Wilcox-Chelimsky, Class of 2019, she had the opportunity of…
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It was 9:30 p.m., and 20-year-old Lupita Berber had just returned home from her job at Tellico Village Yacht Club. She was tired, but she knew what she had to…
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Pellissippi State student Jared Dockery didn’t have to take a “Journey to the Center of the Earth” to understand what’s happening far beneath the surface. Months before he and Professor…
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Imagine being able to take a class without the stress of exams, graded assignments and deadlines. Students of Pellissippi State’s non-credit lifelong learning classes will tell you it’s not only…
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TBR, the largest system of higher education in Tennessee, held a contest last year to choose a “virtual character” to star in a series of videos about Perkins V Basics.…
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Mechanical engineers know a little something about finding a workaround when presented with a problem. That’s exactly what Pellissippi State graduate Christian Boone did in May 2017, when he paid…
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When Teacher Education Program Coordinator Laura Lawson and librarian Will Buck talked to the University of Tennessee Master Gardeners last fall about Pellissippi State’s seed library, they had no idea…
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Nursing Instructor Dannisha Davis knows what it’s like to be working full time, taking classes and raising children. That’s what her life was like as a Pellissippi State student 15…
Read moreOver the past eight years or so, I’ve spent one day each week working at a different one of our campus locations. Doing so allows me to spend time with…
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