Welcome to season two of Inside Virginia’s Community Colleges, a podcast that gives you a behind-the-scenes look at community college higher education in the commonwealth and the initiatives helping individuals […]
Read more on this post: S2E1: Pandemic PivotsBy Charles Errico, Ph.D. Chair, Chancellor’s Faculty Advisory Committee As we close the fall semester, every faculty member can provide numerous testimonials of the economic hardships their students faced during […]
Read more on this post: A faculty viewpoint: 2020 was no fun, but we’ll get over it, and Virginia’s Community Colleges will help lead the wayBy: Micol Hutchison, PhD, Director of Pathways to Arts & Humanities Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 18 students from John Tyler and J. Sargeant Reynolds Community Colleges have […]
Read more on this post: Seamless transfer to VCU in arts or humanities is goal of Mellon Research Fellows programAfter taking some time away from college, Katie returned to finish her degree at [TAG] Virginia Western Community College. Her journey started with an online summer course and continued online […]
Read more on this post: Learning online: Perseverance is key to successEditor’s note: Alice Reagan, an associate professor of history at Northern Virginia Community College’s Woodbridge campus, played a leading role in the development of the Lucy Burns Museum, which commemorates […]
Read more on this post: NOVA professor helps preserve the memory of American women who fought for the right to voteDuring each of the previous episodes in this season of Inside Virginia’s Community Colleges, we’ve heard from educators, advisors, and students on how remote learning works and how to get […]
Read more on this post: S1E6: Success StoriesThe goal of any educational institution is student success, but how does that happen when a student may never meet their professor face-to-face? Remote learning requires a different mindset and […]
Read more on this post: S1E5: Setting Yourself Up for SuccessIndividuals who are thinking about furthering their education remotely frequently have a lot of questions about how it all works. In this episode of Inside Virginia’s Community Colleges, we talk […]
Read more on this post: S1E4: Nuts and Bolts of Remote LearningWhile they have similarities, remote education differs from traditional classroom learning in a number of ways. When it comes to remote learning, being successful is reliant on your ability to […]
Read more on this post: S1E3: How to be Successful in Online ClassesOnline education has been known to cause some anxiety, because for some people it’s an entirely different way of learning. In this episode of Inside Virginia’s Community Colleges, our guests […]
Read more on this post: S1E2: Universal Benefit of Online Classes