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A closer look at West Campus Nursing Center

6Dec

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A closer look at West Campus Nursing Center

Photo and story by HANK ROUBICHAUD Pima Community College’s Nursing Center for development offers premier training to begin a career in the fast-growing fields of nursing and caregiving. PCC’s Nursing program has partnerships with local universities that allow for the students to have training from nurses’ assistants and eventually earn a bachelor’s degree in nursing. “The Center for Health professions will focus on stackable credentials, associate degree attainment, concurrent enrollment programs, and transfer programs specifically for health sciences,” said David Dore, Northwest Campus president, by email. “All the programs under the COEHP have yet to be fully identified, but those that have include Nursing, Radiologic Technology, Respiratory Therapy, Surgical Technology, Dental ...

6Dec

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Teaching the next generation of leaders

Interview and photo By JOE GIDDENS Jennifer Wellborn is the West Campus Student Life Coordinator, she’s been in this position for the last four and a half years, previously she worked at the East Campus for a year. Wellborn is also the coordinator of Pima Community College’s Jade Retreat, a three-day leadership and social justice conference. There will be more opportunities for Pima students in the Spring. On Feb. 15 is the Emerging Leader Summit, which you can register for at: http://bit.ly/PCCEmergingLeaders. Q: What is student life? A: We are where students get involved in clubs, leadership programs, multicultural programming, basically if it’s happening at Pima and it’s not part of a student’s class. Typically it’s Student Life either putting it on or has a hand i...

Testing, Testing 1 2 3. Is this thing on?

1Nov

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Testing, Testing 1 2 3. Is this thing on?

By JOE GIDDENS Kim Stevens has been working for Pima Community College since 2000 in registration and admission seasonally. Later, she became full time in 2003, and has been at the West Campus Testing Center and Testing Center as a student service technician ever since. We sat down with Stevens for an interview about the West Campus. Q: About how many people use the testing center? A: “It varies … sometimes we have 100 or more. During the midterms and finals, we could have 300, 400.” Q: Are there any outside groups that have your proctor their tests? A: “We do have other community colleges and universities that do use our campus because there’s a lot of online courses nowadays.” Q: So, online courses for like the University of Arizona might have you proctor an exam? A: “Yeah,...

18Oct

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Network outages and outrage

By NORA THOMPSON Just about everyone was experiencing problems with the computer network recently at Pima Community College West Campus. According to an email that was sent out Oct. 11, the network is back up. Raj Murthy, the Assistant Vice Chancellor to Information Technology at Pima, “A part of a core router started malfunctioning and subsequently failed.” Chris Bonhorst, the director of technical services explains the problem as “The issues impacting the wired network at West Campus have been resolved by modifying some configurations and moving important network routes from one piece of hardware to another. A replacement for the primary router at West Campus was ordered prior to these issues and will be put into service as a part of a larger redesign and hardware refresh strategy...

18Oct

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Worm your way through Pima’s bookstore

By JOE GIDDENS Carla Durazo doesn’t want you to be scared of Pima Community College’s bookstore. “I think they're just afraid to come in here because of the prices, but they shouldn't,” said Durazo, who has worked at the West Campus bookstore since 2014 as the assistant bookstore manager. “We have a lot of options for them.” Those options include ebooks; textbook rentals; price matching; makeup; and even makeup. “We try to do all these things where, you know, students can have a savings,” Durazo said. “They don’t bother to look to see what is available in the store and even on our pimashop.com site.” Durazo recently sat down for a question-and-answer session about the West Campus bookstore. Q: How long have you been working for the bookstore?...