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The Presbyterian College Occupational Therapy Doctoral Program welcomes its newest cohort this month at the 2024 White Coat Ceremony for the Class of 2027. Thirty-three new students received their white coats and pins before taking the school’s OTD oath to begin the academic journey towards their professional goals. In her welcome, PC president Dr. Anita

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Presbyterian College is excited to announce that it is combining its art, music, and theater departments into a new Department of Visual and Performing Arts. PC president Dr. Anita Gustafson said the reorganization is designed to strengthen the college’s commitment to the fine arts by uniting them, which will provide opportunities for innovation and growth.

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Presbyterian College formally declared the opening of its 145th academic year Tuesday with a celebration of the Class of 2025. Processing into Belk Auditorium behind the PC faculty and led by a bagpiper to the familiar tune of “Highland Cathedral,” seniors donned their caps and gowns for the first time to kick off the final

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by Sarah Murphy Famed author, academic, and speaker Dr. Temple Grandin opened her keynote address to the 10th annual Charles Chadwell Special Education Institute at Presbyterian College with a simple observation with a profound impact. “You have to realize that people can think differently,” she said. “I didn’t know until I was in my late

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Before the formal opening of a new academic year – before even the first classroom lecture – Presbyterian College students gathered at First Presbyterian Church in Clinton to fight hunger. The Aug. 18 event partnered members of PC’s “home church” – including several college alumni – with incoming members of the Class of 2028 and

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The Presbyterian College School of Pharmacy welcomed its newest students this week at the annual White Coat Ceremony on Aug. 16 in Belk Auditorium. Two dozen new P1s were granted white coats to begin their academic careers as first-year pharmacy students in the four-year doctoral program. “Today marks an important first step in your professional

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A Blue Hose is representing the Red, White, and Blue in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, Aug. 28-Sept. 8. Ellen Geddes ’10 is representing Team USA for her second Paralympic Games after competing in Tokyo four years ago as a member of the wheelchair fencing squad. The International Paralympic Committee listed the Presbyterian College graduate

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  Nubia Vazquez Arana was born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The eldest of four children, she spent most of her childhood in Mebane, N.C. Arana was the first person in her family to go to college and admits that when pursuing a graduate degree, she was uncertain about a doctoral program. “My advisor from undergrad

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  Presbyterian College’s emphasis on student research took the spotlight during the annual Summer Research Symposium last month. A dozen PC students presented their findings throughout the daylong event, including oral presentations in the Harrington-Peachtree amphitheater and poster presentations in James H. Thomason Library. The event was organized by Dr. Drew Brandel ’13, director of

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  The Presbyterian College Occupational Therapy Doctoral program celebrated its second commencement and doctoral hooding ceremony on Saturday, sending 21 new graduates into their chosen field. In her welcome to the Class of 2024, PC president Dr. Anita Gustafson told graduates they were being celebrated – and admired. “You are ready to launch into a

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