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Community colleges offer value, experience
Community colleges offer value, experience

Students can transfer associate degrees or land high-paying jobs right out of school. “What sets us apart from four-year institutions of higher learning is that we place an emphasis on industry-relevant high-tech skills that can be learned in a short period of time,” said Dr. J. Mark Estepp, president of Southwest Virginia Community College.

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October 10, 2008

Student focus: juggling motherhood, job and classes at John Tyler
Student focus: juggling motherhood, job and classes at John Tyler

Being a mother is already a full-time job. But one student at John Tyler Community College is also juggling a part-time job and a full-class load at the same time.

Student focus: J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College
Student focus: J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College

During his first college year, Douglas Ford successfully found a middle ground between his engineering classes at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College and his job as a mechanic.


August 14, 2008

Technology, fitness on the agenda

WEYERS CAVE - Technology and fitness are on the immedate agenda for Blue Ridge Community College.


October 17, 2008

Home Craft Days opens in Big Stone Gap

BIG STONE GAP, Va. – Despite the chill and rain, vendors were setting up Friday for Home Craft Days, an annual festival expected to draw as many as 20,000 people to the campus of the Mountain Empire Community College.


October 16, 2008

PVCC’s renovation proposal victim of cuts

State funding cuts to Piedmont Virginia Community College will sap funds from a vacant building the college had hoped to acquire and renovate.

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