Virginia Western Bulletin

Throughout the spring semester, our campus community was asked to provide input in the selection process for an overarching theme for our next Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). The QEP is a requirement for our reaffirmation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), and will be implemented over the five-year period (Read the full article…)

As the academic library consortium of Virginia, VIVA purchases and licenses sharedcollections across the state that aim to level the academic playing field for students andfaculty. VIVA does this by ensuring that students have access to the same critical coreresources, regardless of which institution they attend, whether it is a small communitycollege or a large (Read the full article…)

Go2Knowledge: I recently learned all VCCS faculty and staff have free, unlimited access to live webinars and on-demand training provided by Go2Knowledge. There’s a wide variety of topics for all roles at the college. The live webinars are highlighted at the top of the Go2Knowledge dashboard, but you can search through an entire library of (Read the full article…)

We’re approaching July 1, that time of year when our Finance office is humming and new VCCS initiatives officially begin, such as the G3 program and the Opportunity 2027 Strategic Plan. Virginia Western is working hard to finish our own strategic “bridge” plan, aligning our energy and assorted initiatives like Indiana Jones: This is also (Read the full article…)

Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States (Read the full article…)