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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. – Announced back in May 2022, Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College was awarded $278,500 through Gov. Justice’s Nursing Workforce Expansion program. This award expanded educational capabilities by bringing in new simulation equipment to give nursing students an even broader scope of skills and practice for this field of study. Read more about the awarded money here. Eastern has also hired Ciara Crites, ten-month clinical nursing faculty, who will work with the Nursing personnel on the new simulation equipment recently acquired. Crites will…
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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. – Tiffany Sentman is the new student program advisor at Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College, promoted from student services coordinator. A resident of Petersburg, WV, her entire life, Sentman lives with her husband, Stanley. “He keeps me grounded,” she said, “I couldn’t ask for a better partner.” They have three children, Acacyah, Addylin, and Kaisyn, and two cats, Nora and Nellie. Sentman graduated from Potomac State College in 2006 with an associate in pre-social work. “I decided on a whim in…
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Maya Paul has been promoted from part-time Eastern Ag Innovation staff to fill the Ag Innovation program coordinator position at Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College. Originally from Canaan Valley, Paul now lives in St. George with her boyfriend, Eddie, puppy Strider, and cat Pippin. Paul grew up loving the outdoors and spending time in her family’s garden. As she got older, she said she became aware of the importance of being self-sufficient, mainly developed by her passion for horticulture and the Appalachian culture.…
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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. – Trent Montgomery, a resident of Rawlings, Md., has joined the staff at Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College to facilitate communications and marketing for the community college. Montgomery holds an associate degree in art from Allegany College of Maryland, and then completed a bachelor of fine arts degree at Frostburg State University, with a study focus in graphic design and illustration. He also minored in marketing. Before joining Eastern, Montgomery worked as a graphic designer for The Final Touch Embroidery &…
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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. – Five local residents have joined the business office at Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College in the last several months. Candice Shockey of Moorefield started working at Eastern in late June as an accounting assistant and cashier for the college. She said she is originally from Spotsylvania, Va., but moved to Moorefield when in middle school. Shockey is married and has a daughter, 13, and a son, 5. She also said that the family is kept busy taking care of their…
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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. – Following a career working with a variety of nonprofit organizations in roles that focused on meeting needs for individuals and communities, Jennifer Rexroad is now applying those skills to higher education in the Potomac Highlands as Title III advancement services specialist at Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College. The advancement services specialist is a newly created position funded by the college’s federal Title III – Strengthening Institutions Program grant, and Rexroad believes that one of her primary tasks is building relationships…
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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. – News of Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College’s $2.25 million federal Title III grant award last October subsequently led to a flurry of activity on campus over the past year and put Dixie Heavener, Title III project director and career counselor, in the middle of the action. Heavener, a resident of Burlington, joined Eastern in February, and her hiring was a critical piece of Eastern’s Title III puzzle. When asked how she would describe the grant’s goals, Heavener replied, “to increase…
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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. – Eddie Mullenax first climbed into a big rig as a small child and was entranced by the power of the machine. The truck belonged to his uncle, who owned a trucking company, and the experience ended up shaping Mullenax’s life. “It was the sound of the truck and how high I was sitting. It made an impression on me,” Mullenax said. Mullenax fell in love with trucks from that point on, and he spent many hours as an older child and teenager doing…
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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. – Anthony “Tony” Prato, Ph.D., has joined Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College as its full-time math faculty member. Prato said he understands the stress many feel about learning math. He’s had an opportunity to work with students at high school and college levels, so he has engaged with a wide variety of students over the years, often presenting math in ways that are more practical and more fun. Math is “… more creative than people realize,” Prato said. One of his favorite…
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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. – Nathan Van Vranken has joined Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College as full-time science faculty member and Biological and Environmental Technology (BET) program coordinator. The flora and fauna of the Potomac Highlands and surrounding regions, the geography of the Appalachians and Atlantic Coastal Plain, its unique and ancient geological history and how all these elements intertwine and interrelate is endlessly fascinating to Van Vranken, who investigates these complex relationships. By studying a region and its biogeographic record, Van Vranken is working to…
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