Blue Ridge SIFE Team wins national championship - again
The award-winning Sife team from Blue Ridge is once again the USA National Campions for two-year colleges in 2008. This video, available on YouTube, highlights their achievements.
Dr. Brent Kendrick, professor of English at Lord Fairfax Community College (left) and Dr. Walerian Majewski, professor of physics at Northern Virginia Community College, were each honored Feb. 20 as recipients of the 2008 Outstanding Faculty Awards for excellence in teaching, research, knowledge integration and public service. They were among 12 faculty members from colleges and unviersities across the Commonwealth. For more information about these outstanding faculty, see the State Council for Higher Education website.
Take a look at the VCCS annual report, with more than 50 life-changing profiles of students, alumni and faculty finding better lives, better jobs, and better futures at Virginia's Community Colleges.
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Eastern Shore has a new radio commercial featuring CAREER COACHES.
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Virginia Highlands has a new radio commercial highlighting transfer and guaranteed admissions agreements.
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Hear the podcast highlighting community colleges, small business and TCC's Theresa Bryant, vice president for workforce development.
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 Virginia's community colleges partner in the public higher education radio program, With Good Reason, produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Recent programs featuring community college faculty include: |
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Little Big Minds (February 3-9)
Marietta McCarty (Piedmont Virginia Community College) has written a new guide book for parents and educators who want to share the enduring ideas of the ‘biggest minds’ of thinkers like Plato, the Dalai Lama, and Martin Luther King Jr. with the ‘littlest minds’ of children.
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The Millenials (January 13-19)
Mary Washko (J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College) is part of an innovative program that helps high school dropouts complete their education. She says that, like the character played by Will Smith in the hit movie, "Pursuit of Happiness," these young people face more daily challenges than most of us can imagine.
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Visit the With Good Reason website and sign up for podcasts of the With Good Reason radio program.
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See the latest television spot produced by J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College highlighting guaranteed transfer to a four-year college or university. |
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Robert W. Shinn, of Richmond, was elected to chair the State Board in May.
Shinn says he will focus his term on both workforce training and affordable college access issues.
Gary C. Hancock, of Pulaski, will serve as vice chair.
Click here to read more  | | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
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The State Board for Community Colleges will convene its regular meeting on Thursday, July17, 2008, at 9 a.m. in the 15th floor Godwin-Hamel Board Room in the James Monroe Building, 101 N. 14th Street, Richmond.
Click here to read more | | Monday, July 14, 2008 |
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Nine of 59 new Virginia State Troopers are graduates of Virginia's Community Colleges.
Click here to read more | | Thursday, July 10, 2008 |
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Great Expectations, a new community college program, will create college opportunities for foster youth
Click here to read more | | Wednesday, June 25, 2008 |
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SCHEV, VCCS Collaborate to Reach Low-Income Students at 35 GEAR UP High Schools
Click here to read more | | Monday, June 16, 2008 |
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