June 2, 2021

The Institutional Effectiveness Office has added several items to SharePoint. The following have been added under Institutional Effectiveness > Survey Results: IET Telework Survey Results Alumni Survey Results and Trends: This survey garnered over 350 responses from 2018-19 and 2019-20 alumni, who rated their overall experience at Virginia Western very highly with a mean score (Read the full article…)

May 26, 2021

Tutoring & coaching options for Summer 2021 classes include the following: Online drop-in STEM Center: visit our Zoom room Monday, Wednesday, or Friday from 10am-5pm, or Tuesday or Thursday from 10am-8pm at  https://vccs.zoom.us/my/vwstemcenter Online drop-in Cyberlab: visit our Zoom room Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday from 3-8pm at https://vccs.zoom.us/my/vwcccyberlab Online one-on-one tutoring: Tutors are available by appointment Monday-Thursday, 10am-2pm. Schedule (Read the full article…)

Brown Library is open for the summer semester! The Testing Center, located on the ground floor, and the Academic Link, located on the middle floor, are both open for the campus community. Our hours are:Monday 9am-8pmTuesday 9am-3pmWednesday 9am-3pmThursday 9am-8pmFriday 9am-1pmSaturday 9am-1pmSunday Closed *Note that we will be closed the following dates in observance of holidays: (Read the full article…)

Now that the new website has been launched, you may need to update links you have posted in your Canvas courses or other documentation. For Canvas, you can use the link validator tool to help find the links that need to be updated: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-validate-links-in-a-course/ta-p/1001 Below are the addresses for a number of services and items (Read the full article…)

Every two years, the Aspen Institute awards a $1 million Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence — what President Barack Obama described as “basically the Oscars for great community colleges.”  The 2021 winners were announced earlier this month. And lo and behold, Amarillo College — which I have spotlighted before — was recognized with a runner-up “Rising Star” award. The first-place (Read the full article…)