The President’s Blog

It has been said before, but I couldn’t be prouder of our Pellissippi State team than now. We faced a “perfect storm” this semester with Banner looming over us along with the redesign of Developmental Studies, the addition of “confirmation testing” and a new Vice President for Student Success and Enrollment Management. The storm passed with very little damage done. In fact, I think this was our smoothest, best organized process that we have ever developed.
My thanks to all of you who made this such a successful start. Dr. Ashford has made a great start in her career at Pellissippi State. She and the members of her teams were much more patient than I could have been as they helped late arrivals find their way through our system. In addition, Dr. Wise and his team were everywhere filling in gaps, putting in advisors when we needed extra help, and monitoring everything very closely.
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The Business Office and Financial Aid worked overtime to provide the best service they possibly could at this time, and the Physical plant, Security, and Information Services were all on hand to make this year a very good one for us all.
I am very proud to be president of this college and am deeply grateful to you all for that you have accomplished this year.