BRCC schedules events for Black History Month
Blue Ridge Community College welcomes two of the historic Tuskegee Airmen for a Black History Month event on Tuesday, Feb. 5, in the Plecker Workforce Center auditorium from 12:30-2 p.m. Grant S. Williams, Sr. and Harry Quinton, both of Tidewater, VA, will recount their memories of serving with the famed Tuskegee Airmen: the first African-American military aviators, mechanics, and air crews in the United States armed forces. A reception will follow in room P126B.
BRCC board member garners state award
Dr. Bruce Bowman, chairperson of the Blue Ridge Community College Board, is the recipient of the 2012 Chairman’s Award for College Board Member Exemplary Service presented by the State Board for Virginia’s Community Colleges.
BRCC’s ABG Business Honor Society hosts fourth annual Career Expo
Job seekers are encouraged to attend the fourth annual Alpha Beta Gamma Business Honor Society Career Expo on Tuesday, April 5, from 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., at Blue Ridge Community College’s Plecker Workforce Center and the Advanced Technology Building. The Expo will offer career seminars, job finding assistance, employer exhibitors, a résumé clinic, tours [...]
It’s official: BRCC is a great place to work
Blue Ridge Community College is one of the best colleges in the nation to work for, according to a new survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education. The results, released earlier this week in The Chronicle’s third annual report on The Academic Workplace, are based on a survey of more than 42,000 employees at 277 [...]
Latin Ballet of Virginia performs at BRCC on Saturday
Edited by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net Blue Ridge Community College’s Fine Arts Center plays host to the Latin Ballet of Virginia’s Baile & Rumba on Saturday, April 10 at 7 p.m.
Valley gets $5M for green job training
Story by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net Blue Ridge Community College and James Madison University are among a group of Shenandoah Valley partners that will take part in a new program to train workers for jobs in the emerging green sector. U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Jim Webb on Friday announced a $5 million investment from [...]
A story of survival
BRCC group gets out of Haiti Story by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net Mass chaos. People running through the streets ripping their clothes off. “People thought it was the apocalypse, that it was the end of the world,” remembers Rebecca Evans, an accounting professor at Blue Ridge Community College, who led a group of students and faculty [...]
Report: BRCC students safe in Haiti
Story by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net As of the most recent report, a group of Blue Ridge Community College students and staff members in Haiti this week on a service project is accounted for and safe. “We have received an encouraging message from an American volunteer who is currently in Haiti and who has worked [...]
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