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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.  […]

Read more on this post: Virginia’s Community Colleges step up to help their service areas during the coronavirus pandemic

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 gain

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 […]

Read more on this post: G3 apparently in good shape in the General Assembly…VCCS also seeks funds for more community college advisors

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 […]

Read more on this post: Southwest Virginia Community College’s Foundation will offer student housing

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 […]

Read more on this post: Congressional action to extend CARES Act funding breathes new life into Virginia’s REV Grants

Governor Ralph Northam asked Virginia lawmakers at the beginning of their 2021 session to support his multi-million dollar plan to make community college job and career training more affordable for […]

Read more on this post: Governor renews call for free access to Virginia’s Community Colleges for low and moderate income students

A major initiative to make community college career training more affordable for low and moderate income Virginians is back before the General Assembly session that will begin next month. Governor […]

Read more on this post: Governor proposes millions in new state budget to restore G3 job and career training at Virginia’s Community Colleges

Editor’s note: this story was updated Dec. 19. An English professor at Northern Virginia Community College since 2009, Dr. Jill Biden tried to keep a low profile when her husband […]

Read more on this post: NOVA Professor Jill Biden, Ed.D., takes the high road in the latest nationwide squabble over academic titles

By 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 way

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