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Welcome to the President’s Blog
Dr. L. Anthony Wise will be blogging here in the future. Prior to July 1, 2011, he blogged at the CAO Blog on this site. Dr. Allen Edwards, President Emeritus of Pellissippi State also blogs here.
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Ready for the World
As many of you know, Pellissippi State launched a Culinary Arts program in cooperation with the Culinary Institute at the University of Tennessee last August. Our initial cohorts of students are...
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grat·i·tude
Each year, the Pellissippi State Foundation hosts a reception in honor and recognition of donors and scholars. In my mind, it is one of the annual events at the College that is at the very heart of...
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Over the course of the last few years, the Faculty Lecture Series has become one way for the College to showcase the considerable talents of its faculty on slightly larger stage than the common...
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The Things They Carried . . .
This year’s Civic Engagement week began with a talk by local attorney, L. Caesar Stair III, about his experiences during the Vietnam War. He used Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried as a frame for...
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September 16
One morning in early August, I received an email from Becky Milam asking if I could serve as the New Student Orientation (NSO) welcome speaker late that afternoon. I agreed to do so and then set out...
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Some Thoughts on the Visit of President Barack Obama
It was about this time a month ago that I knew that the President of the United States (and the Vice President and the Second Lady) would visit Pellissippi State on January 9. I started crafting this...
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My Pellissippi Promise
I make a Pellissippi Promise because I am a believer. I believe in the power of community colleges — particularly this community college — to transform lives and change communities. I believe in the...
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A Day on Campus – September 2
There are days when being the president of a large community college is tough. Today was not one of those days. For the past five years, I’ve spent one full day a week working at each one of our...
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