HANCEVILLE, ALA. – Wallace State’s Campus Ministries hosted an opportunity Wednesday for students and employees to congregate at the college’s flag pole in observance of national “See You at the Pole” day. The same opportunity was offered at the Wallace State-Oneonta campus, where general studies student Joe Colunga led the prayer and general studies student…
HANCEVILLE, ALA. – The University of Alabama at Birmingham has expanded its Joint Admission Program partnership with Wallace State Community College and four other Alabama community colleges to include the addition of UAB Presidential Full Tuition Scholarships for two students from each partner school, continuing the institution’s commitment to attracting top Alabama students. The scholarships…
HANCEVILLE, ALA. – Wallace State’s Phi Theta Kappa Chapter adopts a college project each academic year and is raising awareness about heroin usage this semester, informing the student body and the community about the drug’s addictive and deadly properties. Heroin-related deaths doubled in Alabama in 2014 and have been on the rise ever since. According…
HANCEVILLE, ALA. – In Wallace State’s Electronics Technology Department, instructor Joe Hendrix appreciates having graduates return to campus, encouraging and mentoring the new students in the program. Mavon Copeland and Daniel Wilhite, both graduates of the program now working at the Yates Nissan Battery plate in Smyrna, Tenn., visited the program at the outset of…
HANCEVILLE, Ala. — An upcoming job fair at Wallace State Community College is shaping up as an event that will offer students and community members a chance to check into employment in a number of different areas. So far, almost a dozen area employers have signed up to attend the job fair. The companies have…
HANCEVILLE, Ala. — The Wallace State Community College Alumni Association is now offering Corporate Memberships to local businesses and industries, with numerous benefits that can far exceed the cost of investing in a student’s education. The are three levels of membership opportunities from which to choose, with each offering benefits that equal more than half…
Nursing students giving back to active military through T-shirt sale HANCEVILLE, Ala. — The Wallace State Community College Association of Nursing Students (ANS) is paying it forward to a military medical unit with each T-shirt they sell this week for their own program. Each year ANS organization creates one or two T-shirts for students to…
HANCEVILLE, ALA. – John Glasscock is Wallace State’s new Adult Education Coordinator. Glasscock, 40, comes to Wallace State after previous stops at Central Alabama and Enterprise State and extensive General Education Development (GED) work in Colorado, where he served as an Adult Education instructor in prisons through the Colorado Department of Corrections in Denver. “I’m…
HANCEVILLE, Ala. — Wallace State Community College will host a health fair and flu shot clinic on Tuesday, Sept. 27, from 9 a.m. to noon in the Wellness Center on the Hanceville campus. The health fair is free and open to the public. Screenings will be available for blood pressure, weight and body mass index.…