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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. – Alexis Snyder, daughter of Todd and Lorena Snyder of Moorefield, is a Michael Moore Scholarship recipient at Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College for 2022-23. Snyder, a Moorefield High School student, represents Hardy County in the scholarship program. The Michael Moore Scholarship at Eastern supports early-entrance students from Hardy, Grant, and Hampshire counties. The scholarship covers the recipient’s tuition, books, and fees. Students from the three counties are encouraged to apply for the scholarship by January 12, 2023, for the Spring…
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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. – Building on an August meeting in Keyser between leaders of Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College and WVU-Potomac State College, administrators with WVU-PSC traveled to Moorefield on Oct. 25 to return the visit and participate in a session on collaboration projects between the colleges. Thomas Striplin, Ed.D., president of Eastern, and Christopher Gilmer, Ph.D., interim campus president at WVU-PSC, led the discussion. Suggestions for potential joint initiatives were wide-ranging and included the development and streamlining of articulation agreements and dual-enrollment programs,…
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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. – The bright green of the benches at the front and patio entrances of Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College were a perfect complement to the seasonal hues of russet, orange, and gold that surrounded the campus on Oct. 20 during a dedication ceremony on the college’s front walk that honored and memorialized the names on the benches. The Bench Campaign is a project of the community college’s Foundation, which seeks support to purchase benches for the college campus to replace a…
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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. – Brooklyn Boyce, a student in Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College’s nursing program, has been awarded the inaugural St. George Medical Clinic Scholarship at Eastern. Boyce, a resident of Hampshire County, said she has wanted to be a nurse since she was a young child. Her younger brother required care in a neonatal care when he was born, she explained, and she vividly remembers how nice the nurses were that helped care for her brother and that she wanted to be…
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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. –The two-day Potomac Highlands Ag Innovation Showcase, hosted by Eastern Ag Innovation at Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College, featured agriculture career options as well as vendor information and demonstrations for area students and the general public. The showcase, held on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 14-15, included representatives, displays, and information from federal and state government agencies, agriculture-related vendors and employers, and various departments at Eastern. Student activities Friday for students from Moorefield Middle School, Mineral County Technical Center, and Tucker County…
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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. – Joe McGee, assistant professor of English and assessment facilitator at Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College, will celebrate his latest “book birthday” on Oct. 25 for “Curse of the Crummy Mummy!” (Book #6 of “Junior Monster Scouts”), published by Aladdin Books, a children’s-book imprint of Simon & Schuster. The “Crummy Mummy” will be the latest, but not the only recent book birthday McGee has celebrated. On Sept. 6, Aladdin also released “The Squirrels Have Gone Nuts” (Book #4 of “Night Frights”).…
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The latest advancements in agriculture technology will be on display at this year’s Potomac Highlands Agriculture Innovation Showcase hosted by Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College’s Ag Innovation Program. The outdoor event kicks off at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 15 on Eastern’s main campus, located at 316 Eastern Drive in Moorefield and will feature more than a dozen vendors. “This is a great annual event that celebrates the Potomac Highlands agriculture industry and brings together the latest advancements in ag equipment and services…
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In 2017, the Council for Opportunity in Education and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators’ Center for First-Generation Student Success launched the inaugural First-Generation College Celebration on Nov. 8, the anniversary of the signing of the Higher Education Act of 1965. This year, Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College is joining with College for West Virginia (CFWV) to celebrate the successes and contributions of first-generation college graduates and students in West Virginia. There are many definitions for identifying first-generation students, and many of…
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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. – The sun rose brightly and glinted off the windows at Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College (Eastern) as the doors opened at 9 a.m. for the Oct. 7 Community Job Fair and dozens of employers and job seekers streamed into the building. The job fair was a joint effort between the college’s Career Services and Workforce Education departments and WorkForce West Virginia and the Region VII Workforce Development Board and was the first event of its kind held at the college…
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