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Glenn DuBois, Chancellor

The 10-minute tour ofThe 10-minute tour of Virginia’s Community Colleges Virginia’s Community Colleges

VCCS by the numbers…

• Created in 1966

• 40 campuses on 23 colleges

• Annually serving 340,000 students

• Tuition is 1/3 of 4-year institutions

Most Virginians live within a 30-minute drive of a VCCS campus.

VCCS Governance Structure

VCCS Funding

Bridging Virginia’s Higher Education Needs

Credit Portability

VCCS helps students transfer credits in two ways:1. Dual Enrollment – helping high

school students earn college credit.

2. Guaranteed Transfer Agreements – ensuring community college graduates a seat at a four-year institution of their choosing.

Dual Enrollment

• Allows students to earn college credit before graduating high school, often for free.

• 29,000 students served last year.

• Tom and Monica Hamlin earned their associate’s degree last year before finishing high school and enrolling in VMI.

Tom and Monica Hamlin

Guaranteed Transfer Agreements

• More than 24 agreements allow community colleges graduates to attend the 4-year college of their choice.

• Each agreement has specific GPA and other requirements.

• Keith Logan used a VCCS transfer agreement to go from an over-night shift at a paper factory to graduate from community college and enroll at Virginia

Tech.

Workforce Training (WDS)

• Served 190,000 people last year.

• Customized business training.

• Apprenticeship instruction.

• Career Readiness Certificates.

High Profile Workforce Training

New DCC graduates making the most of opportunity By DENICE THIBODEAURegister & Bee staff writerFebruary 9, 2008

“Three months ago, the first students in Danville Community College’s manufacturing technician certification program began a very intense, 11-week session designed to make them more employable by the area’s manufacturers.

“Three weeks ago, Swedwood hired the whole class - all 18 of them…”

High Profile Workforce TrainingRolls-Royce plant deal gave state an education Wednesday, Dec 12, 2007 By JOHN REID BLACKWELLRICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER

“When Rolls-Royce announced plans last month to open a $100 million jet engine plant in Prince George County, company executives said Virginia's education system was a key reason they chose the state.

“The University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and the Virginia Community College system will be actively involved in the Rolls-Royce project, creating two research centers, new professorships, internships and training programs…”

Flexible Workforce Training• Virginia needs 22,600 new

nurses by 2020.

• Nearly half of VA’s new nurses are community college graduates.

• Since 2002, VCCS nursing graduation rates are up 52%.

• The Commonwealth Nursing Program’s on-line classes helped Donna Wenzel, a single mother of 11, become a nurse.

Donna Wenzel and nine of her eleven children.

Workforce Re-Training• Tim Canon Sr.’s grandfather

began working at the Norfolk Ford plant in 1925.

• When the plant closed last year, the Canons were among 700 people helped by an emergency community college effort, “Shifting Gears.”

• Both earned a Maritime Training Center Captain’s License and together, they are launching a chartered boat business.

Tim Canon Sr. and Jr.

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Glenn DuBois, Chancellor

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