Blue Ridge Community College students who participate in the SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise)team – some of whom were in Haiti when a massive earthquake struck in January 2010 — are on their way to more regional and national awards.
BRCC’s team returned from Charlotte, NC recently as the regional champions, and will move on to [...]

HB 1066 (Athey) calls for SCHEV, the Virginia Community College System, and four-year institutions to work together to establish a uniform general studies transfer certificate. The bill passed Senate Education and Health unanimously yesterday, and is on first reading on the Senate floor today.
On March 1, SB 166 (Edwards) and SB 182 (Stosch) were tabled in the [...]

Two students were the lucky winners of new Virginia Education Wizard Scholarships, valued at $3,000 each, and they received them from a delegation of community college officials and legislators at the 2010 legislative reception.
Greg Foley, from Germanna, is retired from the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue service after being injured as a first responder to [...]

During the first few days of the General Assembly, four pieces of legislation have been introduced to enact a community college scholarship match program.  HB 471 (Dance) and HB 1005 (Athey) establish a community college scholarship match where the state  will match every dollar raised privately for community college scholarships by the 23 foundations of Virginia’s [...]

The University of Virginia announced today that Teresa A. Sullivan will become the institution’s eighth president.
Sullivan said she was drawn to the University of Virginia because of its Jeffersonian values and traditions, its academic reputation, its powerful undergraduate student experience and its firm commitment to a public mission.
“It is one of the truly great public universities [...]

The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education will have a very high-profile board member  and advocate in 2010:  John T. Casteen, retiring president of the University of Virginia.
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported today that Mr. Casteen will join the VFCCE board, dedicated to raising scholarship money to help students, including young people in foster [...]

Here’s a small buffet of news items that are or may affect Virginia’s Community Colleges and the people and communities they serve:
According to USA Today, your community college should be chatting you up on Facebook and Twitter:
The survey found higher levels of engagement among students who said they used social media multiple times a day [...]

John Casteen, the president of the University of Virginia, just happens to be one the biggest fans you will find anywhere of Virginia’s Community Colleges.
With his leadership, UVa became one of the first universities to sign a guaranteed transfer agreement with Virginia’s Community Colleges.
And with his partnership, unique opportunities have been created between UVa and [...]

The Daily Press of Newport News wrote about the winner of a Virginia Foundation for Community College Education scholarship in a recent higher education news round-up:
Kellie Gibbons of Newport News is the recipient of the first Kathy Camper Legacy Scholarship, sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education. Gibbons received $1,000 toward her pursuit [...]

Making sure the youth in foster care get a good education is crucial to their future, Andrew Bridge told Richmond Times Dispatch reporter Karen Kapsidelis.
The newspaper quotes Bridge as saying,
And sadly, we don’t do that right now.
The best-selling author will be sharing details about his life growing out of foster care at the Great Expectations [...]