Finalized enrollment numbers have been posted to our website for Summer 2025. Summer 2025 VWCC’s unduplicated headcount increased 3.8% from Summer 2024 to Summer 2025; the VCCS as a whole saw an increase of 3.3%. VWCC’s full-time equivalent increased 3.9% from Summer 2024 to Summer 2025; the VCCS as a whole saw an increase of 5.6%. Summer 2025 (Read the full article…)
Category: Campus News
“Power of Networking” Lecture Series Kicks Off Sept. 29 with Talk by First-Generation Virginia Western Graduate
Virginia Western alumnus Samuel Hayes III (’83) will be the first guest speaker in “The Power of Networking,” a 2025-26 lecture series organized by Roanoke City CCAP Success Coach Frank Tyree. The series is open to current students and funded by a Bright Ideas Innovation Grant from the Virginia Western Educational Foundation. Hayes’s presentation is (Read the full article…)
Tickets Still Available for “An Evening with Beth Macy” Book Launch and Benefit for Great Expectations Oct. 16
In her new book out Oct. 7, “Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America,” Roanoke’s Beth Macy takes on an assignment she never imagined — documenting what happened to her Ohio hometown in the 40 years since she left. Raised in poverty but her education fueled by a Pell grant, (Read the full article…)
Employee Giving: YOU Make College Possible
When most people picture “college students,” they imagine carefree young adults in dorms, but the reality is far different. According to a recent New York Times article, nearly half of undergraduates in the US attend community colleges, three out of four study part time, and one in five are parents–often single mothers. At Virginia Western, (Read the full article…)
Course Aims to Help Fill Critical Need for Technicians Certified in Sterile Processing
A new opportunity exists for people with no healthcare experience to become certified for an in-demand position that’s crucial for patient safety. Virginia Western Community College is enrolling now for a course in sterile processing, with the ability to receive provisional certification as a Certified Registered Central Service Technician. CRCSTs are responsible for decontaminating, inspecting, (Read the full article…)