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Take Five with Dennis Moynihan: The SSC’s new director is big on collaboration, efficiency and customer engagement

1. You have a lot of responsibilities as director of the Shared Services Center. What constitutes a typical day for you? While you never really know what each day will […]

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State spending plan approved by lawmakers = good news for Virginia’s Community Colleges

Thousands of Virginians will gain free access to community college through the state budget adopted by this year’s General Assembly. The career training they receive could help them recover from […]

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Faculty at Virginia’s Community Colleges reflect on the “Year of Covid”

Editor’s note: As we approached the anniversary of the widespread campus disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, we reached out to winners of the 2020 VCCS outstanding faculty awards, asking […]

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State leaders are counting on “Transformative” G3 free community college program to help revitalize Virginia’s economy

Noting a spike in unemployment and hunger across the state during the coronavirus pandemic, Governor Ralph Northam used a visit to Reynolds Community College last week to spotlight his hopes […]

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Lord Fairfax and Thomas Nelson are latest Virginia Community Colleges to recommend name changes in the wake of the nation’s racial justice movement

Local advisory boards at Lord Fairfax and Thomas Nelson Community Colleges voted this month to recommend their institutions be renamed.  They join John Tyler Community College, whose local board went […]

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Virginia’s Community Colleges step up to help their service areas during the coronavirus pandemic

Across Virginia, through food banks, public health events and other initiatives, our colleges have reached out to help their communities during the Covid-19 pandemic.  Many colleges have held multiple events.  […]

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Take Five with Todd Estes: VCCS’s loss is the newly-created CCWC’s gain

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 […]

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G3 apparently in good shape in the General Assembly…VCCS also seeks funds for more community college advisors

Measures to enact and fund a proposal to make community college education more affordable, or even free for thousands of low-to-moderate income Virginians is working its way through the 2021 […]

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Southwest Virginia Community College’s Foundation will offer student housing

Located far from population centers, in the Tazewell County town of Cedar Bluff, Southwest Virginia Community College’s Foundation will offer student housing, with the first units available as early as […]

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Congressional action to extend CARES Act funding breathes new life into Virginia’s REV Grants

Virginians who lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic will continue to be able to apply for free workforce and career training at Virginia’s Community Colleges. Applicants can learn […]

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