FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2025 MEDIA CONTACT: Susan Pollard Asst. Vice Chancellor for Public Relations spollard@vccs.edu RICHMOND, VA – Virginia’s Community Colleges’ FastForward program, the commonwealth’s premier workforce development […]
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MEDIA CONTACT: Susan Pollard Assistant Vice Chancellor for Public Relations (804) 819-4949 spollard@vccs.edu RICHMOND, VA – Virginia, along with six other states, Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, and Washington, […]
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Open Educational Resources continue to lessen the financial burden for many of our students while simultaneously helping to promote student completion. But the industry itself is in need of support […]
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The keynote speech was delivered by Dr. David Doré on Thursday, Aug. 8 at the beginning of the Chancellor’s Retreat held in Roanoke, Virginia. A text version of the […]
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The State Board for Community Colleges has certified five finalists for the position of president at New River Community College (NRCC). The finalists came from a national search that attracted […]
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All of Virginia’s Community Colleges now have an AI-infused chatbot patrolling their websites, helping students with a wide array of inquiries 24/7 . But students aren’t the only ones benefiting […]
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OpEd by David Doré, VCCS Chancellor, and Barry DuVal, Virginia Chamber of Commerce Pres. & CEO Published by Cardinal News on Feb. 21, 2024 [Excerpt] Virginia confronts a widely acknowledged […]
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Scholarships offer the kind of financial support that can make the difference between a college completer and a stop-out. They’re lifelines, cables of hope that can lift a student up […]
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COVID was a challenge of epic proportions. In addition to the health threat it posed to society, the pandemic also put a strain on hundreds of thousands of Virginia households […]
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FastForward and G3 have proven immensely popular since their respective debuts. Given that noncredit students are typically not included in state and national postsecondary data sets, however, research on both […]
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