The document provides an overview of Virginia's Community College System (VCCS) in 3-4 sentences: VCCS was created in 1966 and consists of 40 campuses across 23 colleges serving over 340,000 students annually with tuition that is 1/3 of 4-year institutions. VCCS helps students transfer credits to 4-year universities through dual enrollment programs for high school students and guaranteed transfer agreements. It also provides workforce training programs to serve the needs of Virginia businesses and individuals through customized training, apprenticeships, and retraining programs.

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Glenn DuBois, Chancellor
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Virginia’s Community CollegesVirginia’s Community Colleges

2. 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

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

4. VCCS Governance Structure

5. VCCS Funding

6. Bridging Virginia’s Higher
Education Needs

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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.

10. Workforce Training (WDS)
• Served 190,000 people
last year.
• Customized business
training.
• Apprenticeship
instruction.
• Career Readiness
Certificates.

11. High Profile Workforce Training
New DCC graduates making the most of opportunity
By DENICE THIBODEAU
Register & Bee staff writer
February 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…”

12. High Profile Workforce Training
Rolls-Royce plant deal gave state an
education
Wednesday, Dec 12, 2007
By JOHN REID BLACKWELL
RICHMOND 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…”

13. 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.

14. 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
Thank You.Thank You.