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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 about the [...]

Want to know the top “Hot Jobs” in Virginia?
Glenn DuBois, chancellor of Virginia’s Community Colleges, showcased a new tool today that will help Virginia’s students and workers find the top job markets for the future. The Virginia Hot Jobs Index, presented by the Virginia Education Wizard and powered by JobsEQ, proprietary software from Chmura Economics [...]

Virginia’s Community Colleges and some outstanding partners took a chance last night in making a big announcement.
It was so significant that it had some traditional media reporters asking, “Where’s the press release?”
The thing is, you see, there was no press release.  And there was no press conference – a move some may consider blasphemous for an old fashioned [...]

The Virginia Education Wizard is featured in Campus Technology magazine this month as one of 11 winners of the 2009 Campus Technology Innovators award.
The awards, chosen from 350 nominations, recognize higher education institutions that “take technology investment to new heights.”
Craig Herndon, director of the Wizard project, is featured on the cover of the print version of [...]

A newly released survey from the National Association for College Admission Counseling reveals that America’s community colleges are what’s keeping the college dream alive for more and more families as those families feel the effects of the recession.

Thirty-seven percent of respondents indicated an increase in the number of students planning to enroll in community colleges versus [...]

Virginia’s Community Colleges produce nearly half of the commonwealth’s new nurses every year.  And from what Pamela Gould wrote in this morning’s Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star that isn’t changing anytime soon:
Germanna [Community College]’s program for practical and registered nurses is enrolled to the max and interest is skyrocketing.
More than 1,000 people are in the “pre-nursing pipeline” [...]