Career coaches and Virginia Education Wizard staff will be answering the phones at Call12 tonight on NBC 12 in Richmond.
Virginia Education Wizard gives students and parents a simple one-stop place to investigate higher education and career plans at Virginia’s Community Colleges and beyond. You can find information about programs and majors that will help you achieve [...]

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and Virginia’s Community Colleges took a big step today to ease the transition for transfer students beginning in fall 2011.

You can read more about the agreement by following this link to a joint press release.
VCU and Virginia’s Community Colleges have been partners in guaranteed transfer for the better part of the [...]

It’s July 1, the beginning of the new state fiscal year, and despite the fact that everyone is about to head out for a holiday weekend, Virginia’s Community Colleges are celebrating several transitions.
Two new presidents had their first day today –  in opposite ends of the state.
Dr. Ronald Proffitt’s first day at Virginia Highlands Community [...]

The importance – and ease – of community college transfer was highlighted in the Washington Post, saying public colleges and universities are “building a transfer pipeline that is changing the traditional path to a four-year degree.”
Here’s an excerpt:
In the past few years, state colleges have agreed to common standards for many community college courses and [...]

Editorial pages across Virginia over the weekend celebrated the unique relationship of Virginia’s Community Colleges to the communities they serve.
At the Lynchburg News & Advance, editorial writers celebrated President Darrel Staat as he leaves Central Virginia Community College for a new post as president of South Carolina’s system of technical colleges. CVCC, the editorial quotes Chamber of Commerce president [...]

The radio program Marketplace did another story yesterday on the question of whether or not going into debt for a bachelor’s degree is worth it.
As expected, they found an expert willing to say it isn’t, or maybe it isn’t.  This time is was economist Richard Vedder who directs the Center for College Affordability and Productivity.
RICHARD [...]

In print and online, over the airwaves and in the social marketing realms of facebook and twitter, graduation stories abound. Uplifting stories of personal triumph go hand in hand with pomp and circumstance.
And this year, more than ever, community colleges appear to be getting their share.
Older students go back to school and succeed beyond bounds, like [...]

There is nothing easy about developmental education.  Equipping students with the tools they need to successfully do college work is labor- and resource-intensive.  But the clear and present need for this work outweighs any obstacles or excuses not to do it.
Virginia, and America, need to produce more college graduates, period.  There is simply no way [...]

The “caboose” budget bill for the current biennium (HB 29/SB 29) and the budget bill for the upcoming 2010-2012 biennium (HB 30/SB 30) were adopted on Sunday, March 14 after the General Assembly adopted a procedural resolution, HJR 494, allowing them to extend their session by one day. The extended time was caused by differences between [...]

It’s Friday, March 12 and the budget conferees have missed their self-imposed deadline of being done with the budget by midnight on March 9.
Posted by Ellen Davenport