Today Chancellor Glenn DuBois paid a visit to J. Sargent Reynolds Community College to speak about what Virginia’s Community Colleges are doing to serve military-related students – and also ways to improve the military friendliness at each institution. His speech highlights a few of the initiatives our schools have already taken to serve our [...]

Americans are finding ways to save in every place they can these days. It’s everywhere you turn from coupon cutting to do it yourself projects. Now people are even saving on education. A recent article in the Washington Post took notice of this trend. The article cites a study issued by Sallie Mae that revealed that [...]

Yesterday, members of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) announced their selection of VCCS Vice Chancellor for Workforce Development, Peter Blake, as the new interim executive director. Blake previously served at SCHEV as an associate director until 1999. He also served as secretary of education in Gov. Mark R. Warner’s administration before joining [...]

Governor Bob McDonnell held a press conference yesterday to talk about his legislative plan to increase the number of Virginia college graduates. My colleague Ellen Davenport wrote about that yesterday. The Governor’s plan is the right public policy and Virginia’s Community Colleges support it. In their coverage of the press conference, however, the Richmond Times-Dispatch wrote [...]

Harvard economic professor N. Gregory Mankiw published a nice piece recently in the New York Times, advising people on some of the humanities they should include in their pursuit of a college education and why. With all due respect to the professor, however, he wrote something near the end of the piece that isn’t quite so, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

More than 200,000 visitors have now found the Virginia Education Wizard since it was launched last March. And now that middle and high school students in public school systems across the Commonwealth are being introduced to the one-stop resource for career and higher education planning, that number will continue to grow. In a news release [...]