Virginia’s coastal community colleges are battening down the hatches in the face of Hurricane Irene, after a crazy week that also included an unprecedented 5.8 scale earthquake that has a Germanna campus building unusable for the rest of the semester. Tidewater is closed today through Sunday at least; Thomas Nelson is closed today through Monday. [...]

I just voted for Wytheville Community College  in the Governor’s Public Safety PSA challenge.  You can join me in supporting community college students by voting for the WCC video through Aug. 26 at 5 p.m.  The winning video will be used in a statewide television campaign. Three Wytheville students were among the many college groups that created a [...]

Unfortunately, our state legislators are sometimes blamed for what goes wrong within our state. However, they deserve great amounts of praise for the bills which they do pass, such as funding for our community colleges. The delegates in our General Assembly are creating miracles by giving students like me the ability to go to school [...]

On February 9th, 2011 I had the chance to go to Richmond and visit the General Assembly, something you just don’t experience every day. As a student of Patrick Henry Community College, the Virginia state legislators’ decisions for funding the Virginia Community College System has a lot to do with me. I felt it was [...]

Last week, I had the pleasure of traveling to Richmond to meet with my state representatives, joined by several students and faculty from Germanna Community College. I heard a variety of stories from students, ranging from a retired firefighter injured in the line of duty at the Pentagon on 9/11 to a mother attending college [...]

My purpose for attending the 2011 General Assembly earlier this month was to meet our legislative leaders and listen to their goals for the support of Virginia’s Community Colleges. I was humbled by the enormous welcome that my fellow students and I received from the legislators. We arrived as a team representing J. Sargeant Reynolds [...]

I had the opportunity to visit the General Assembly in Richmond, Virginia and I was surprised at the experience. I found myself being introduced to delegates that I felt would really care less about what we had to say as students. I was wrong! What I found was a group of men and women who [...]

My name is Allison Atkins, and I am a 25-year old student at John Tyler Community College.  I always had dreams of becoming successful and helping others, but I was told that my education needed to be placed on hold when I became a single-parent. Since I was now a new mother and laid off, [...]

My name is Scottie Davis. I am a student at Wytheville Community College (WCC), majoring in Construction Trades with a specialization in HVAC and solar technology. I worked as a maintenance technician for 12 years at a local industry. When that industry closed, I could have gone to college but didn’t — because I didn’t think [...]

Hi, my name is Shana Morris.  I am currently a nursing student at John Tyler Community College and currently employed with HCA hospitals as a nurse tech.  I started JTCC in January 2008 in pursuit of my nursing degree. The question was “How would I pay for school and still be able to be a full time [...]