Take Five with Michael “Todd” Estes. The former shipbuilder and current VCCS Director of Career Education Programs and Workforce Partnerships is heading east to take on what some might describe […]
Read more on this post: Take Five with Todd Estes: VCCS’s loss is the newly-created CCWC’s gainMEDIA CONTACT: Jeffrey Kraus Asst. Vice Chancellor for Public Relations jkraus@vccs.edu (804) 592-6767 RICHMOND — The new Community College Workforce Cooperative (CCWC), in selecting its inaugural executive director, is […]
Read more on this post: CCWC Announces First Executive DirectorMEDIA CONTACT: Jeffrey Kraus Asst. Vice Chancellor for Strategic Communications (804) 592-6767 jkraus@vccs.edu RICHMOND, VA (Jan. 21, 2021) – Graduates of FastForward workforce training programs at Virginia’s Community Colleges […]
Read more on this post: Workforce training graduates at Virginia’s Community Colleges report higher wages, better work-life balanceOne of my favorite restaurants is a little, family-owned place in south Richmond that offers the best handmade onion rings. The restaurant opened in 1966, the same year Virginia opened […]
Read more on this post: Connecting the Dots: Your favorite place may be no more, and we must help its workers1. What exactly does the Director of Internal Audit do and what prompted you to pursue this line of work as a career? Internal Audit provides a “fresh set of […]
Read more on this post: Take Five with Mary Barnett, our new Director of Internal AuditVirginia’s Community Colleges are working hard to help people who’ve lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. While its unclear whether the emergency created or simply accelerated these hardships, analysts […]
Read more on this post: Connecting the Dots: Mall workers may be next in line for community college helpNovember 23, 2020 MEDIA CONTACT: Jeffrey Kraus Asst. Vice Chancellor for Strategic Communications (804) 592-6767 jkraus@vccs.edu (RICHMOND) – The U.S. Navy has selected Virginia’s Community Colleges (VCCS) to be a founding […]
Read more on this post: Virginia’s Community Colleges Enlisted in U.S. Naval Community College PartnershipWhen you think about a college calendar, you may automatically think of traditional semesters. You’ve got fall courses that run August to December, spring courses that run January to May, […]
Read more on this post: Late-start classes offer even more flexibility to community college studentsGovernor Ralph Northam wants to “REV” the state’s economy and in particular, its workforce, a large portion of which has been left idle by COVID-19. REV is an acronym for […]
Read more on this post: Getting Out-of-Work Virginians Back in the Game