Pilgrim’s Provides Team Members Free Tuition to Eastern

July 26, 2021

Today, Pilgrim’s Moorefield announced a partnership with Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College to provide free tuition to qualifying team members and their dependents.

The nationwide program, Pilgrim’s Better Futures, removes a major financial barrier to college attendance and stands to become the largest free community college tuition program in rural America. Pilgrim’s and Eastern advisors will also help team members – many from first-generation American families – navigate the application process, which can be a deterrence to people applying to college for the first time.

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Welcome Message From Dr. Striplin, Eastern’s New President

June 30, 2021

Welcome to Eastern! Eastern provides you an affordable and high-quality pathway for career advancement. Whether you choose to pursue an academic degree or one of our many certificate programs, Eastern will be here to support you through the completion of your goals. Our excellent workforce development training programs provide numerous options to support technical and trade-skill advancement that meet a variety of community, corporate, and individual needs. At Eastern, we are proud to offer programs that will help you enrich your life and livelihood.

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Eastern Celebrates Community College Month!

April 30, 2021
Students Throwing Graduation Caps with Green Overlay and Text "Eastern Celebrates #CCMonth"

April is Community College Month. Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College joined #CCMonth, a monthlong grassroots education and stigma-busting campaign coordinated by the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) to improve awareness of the value and need to support community colleges. The primary goals of #CCmonth are to improve awareness of the economic, academic, and equity advantages of attending community colleges and to bust longtime stigmas wrongly associated with public two-year colleges.

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Eastern Welcomes Jay Crites as Automotive Technology Faculty

April 12, 2021

Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College has hired former student, Jerimiah (Jay) Crites, as an Instructional Specialist/Automotive Technology Faculty.



As Automotive Technology Faculty, Crites’ primary duties include teaching and assessing learning, institutional service, and advising. He will also oversee the overall development, coordination, implementation and scheduling in the area of automotive technology, recruit, mentor, evaluate and schedule adjunct faculty and teaching assistants for automotive technology courses, and recruit students throughout the six-county district.

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Virtual Panel Discussion for Lodging Owners/Operators to be Held April 21

April 12, 2021

Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College Workforce Education Department announces an upcoming webinar that will focus on the current challenges facing the West Virginia lodging industry, and what marketing and promotional strategies can be used as the world moves into the post-COVID tourism economy. The event will be held via Zoom on April 21st from 6:00-7:30 PM.

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