What a week: Classic cars, dodgeball, sports, a huge pep rally and ice cream – just to name a few events. This year’s week of devotion to all things SPC has been a spirited one from Tarpon Springs all the way down to the Allstate Center. But if you haven’t […]
Articles by Donna Smith
SPC communications professor to appear at reading festival
Greg Byrd, poet and communications instructor at SPC, recently published a new book of poems titled The Name for the God Who Speaks. He will be a featured author on a panel with poet Gianna Russo at the Times Festival of Reading this Saturday. See a sample of his poetry […]
SPC student speaks at AFC event
Public Policy student Andrew Davis was invited to speak at the Association of Florida Colleges annual conference at Innisbrook on Nov. 6. Davis spoke about being a Bright Futures student. Davis attended Osceola High School, but was accepted into the early admission program at SPC and earned his AA the […]
Don’t miss a thing during Spirit Week!
Grab all your SPC gear and get ready to celebrate your Titan spirit from Nov. 1-8! Check out the fun events planned on all the campuses – there’s something for everyone. See all the events below, or download and print a copy. You can also check out the different Spirit […]
Discovery Day 2019 in the books
Yes, Discovery Day is a day of professional development. A day when SPC employees can learn about a variety of topics, from self-publishing to retirement to raising cichlids. But it’s also a day when we get to see old friends, put faces to names and give hugs where usually there […]
WOW offers support to kids with cancer
September is childhood cancer awareness month, and SPC’s Tarpon Springs Women on the Way (WOW) Center teamed up with YMCA Suncoast and Peace4Tarpon to collect donations for chemo care packages, which were delivered to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg. The donations are packaged into small bags of […]
Get a new photo at Discovery Day
Is your head shot from another era? Perhaps you are sporting winged hair or just hair that you no longer have. No worries! Marketing would like to offer you a chance to have a free head shot taken at Discovery Day! Just come early, dressed to impress – at least […]
Tropics are still active
Wait! Don’t drink those jugs of water or break into that peanut butter stash just yet. Hurricane season isn’t over until Nov. 30! For helpful information, check out the SPC Emergency Preparedness Blog and the Pinellas County Emergency Managment pages. Both are great resources for tips, phone numbers, and information […]
Marketing claims awards
St. Petersburg College’s Marketing and Strategic Communications Department earned some recognition in the 2019 Association of Florida Colleges Communications & Marketing Commission Awards of Excellence competition: First Place Advertising—Print (Workforce, More than 10K FTE) Second Place Advertising—Print (Training, More than 10K FTE) Third Place Brochure (Showcase, More than 10K FTE) […]
BOT update: Footprint review; African American Male Task Force
At Tuesday’s Board meeting, Vice President of Administration, Finance and Technology Brian Miles presented the footprint review and District Office migration plan. According to the plan, four sites will house the departments that will move out of the District Office: Epi Tech, Epi Services, the Clearwater Campus and the Downtown […]
Financial Assistance Assistant featured in article
Chelsea Echols, an Executive Assistant in Financial Services, was the center of a story on the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators blog. The story, titled “St. Petersburg College Aims to Prove That Financial Aid Works,” featured Echols and SPC’s Financial Assistance department’s efforts to demonstrate the impact that […]
New Learning Center opens
SPC’s Downtown Campus celebrated the opening of their new Learning Center, which offers a consolidated place for students to study different subject areas. Read the story on our Learning Resources blog.
SPC program director named STEM Woman of the Year
Growing up in Syracuse, New York, St. Petersburg College’s Engineering Technology Program Director Lara Sharp came from a science-minded family. Her mother and grandmother were nurses, her father a science teacher and grandfather a math teacher. So when her seventh-grade math teacher invited her to take an exam that would […]
Suit Up event outfits a crowd
The JCPenney Suit Up event invited SPC students, staff and alumni to a closed event at the store, offering deep discounts on professional attire. More than 200 people from the SPC family showed up to get in on the deals and score some affordable clothing for work or interviews. Career […]