Around 1,000 local, rural, and out-of-state students attend the college either face-to-face, through ITV classrooms or via Blackboard.
[1] Since 1989, the college has been housed in what was formerly Growden-Harrison Elementary School, built on the new Valdez town site soon after the 1964 Alaska earthquake.
Valdez is known world-over for its epic backcountry skiing, amazing fishing, and as a premiere sea kayaking destination.
There are numerous classrooms, a health and fitness center, student lounge, and a computer lab, as well as the Maxine and Jesse Whitney Museum,[6] a collection of Native Alaskan artifacts.
There are also other various pieces of equipment: stairs, body balls, jumping ropes, punching bag and boxing pads.
The Sound Wellness Alliance Network (SWAN) contributes to a program that allows the Health & Fitness Center to loan out X-Country Skis and Snowshoes which can be used on the various trails and backcountry in Valdez.
Services provided by the Valdez Consortium Library includes Public internet access with wireless, Inter Library Loan, access to database and articles, reference assistance, Listen Alaska (digital e-books and audio book collection), Mango Languages and more.
Toth returned to Valdez in 2007 and completed a restoration project of the Whispering Giant for conservation and to extend the longevity of the work.
The Last Frontier Theatre Conference is an annual event started in 1993 hosted by PWSC in Valdez, Alaska.
The evening shows comprise works from attendants both past and present and are performed by imported and Alaskan theatre companies.
After the reading, the play is critiqued by academics, theatre professionals and the viewers, thus allowing development and growth for those involved.
[9] Attendees have included August Wilson, John Guare, Arthur Miller, Horton Foote, Patricia Neal, Robert Anderson, Jean Stapleton and Terrence McNally.
She traveled around the state to Native villages purchasing works directly from artists, basket weavers and furriers, to later be sold in her store; she continued to gather items into the 1980s.
Exhibits include masks, dolls, fur garments, various sizes of ivory and baleen with scrimshaw work.
[12][13] Created in 1989, this non-profit research center fosters understanding of the ecosystems of Prince William Sound and the Copper River Delta.