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ELKINS, W.Va. – Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College is working with the Randolph County Housing Authority (RCHA) in Elkins to provide healthcare workforce courses as part of RCHA’s Targeted Health Instruction of North Central WV (THINC) program. RCHA was recently awarded more than $1.5 million through a Rural Workforce Program grant, coordinated by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to support the THINC program’s courses. The HRSA grants were awarded to community-based organizations to expand public health clinical and operational capacity…
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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. – As Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College’s nursing program installs new skills lab equipment during the fall 2022 semester, some legacy pieces of equipment are finding new homes. One such item is the lab’s exam table, which was recently taken to Grant Memorial Hospital (GMH) in Petersburg. Kari L. Evans, chief operating officer of the not-for-profit critical access hospital, said the exam table will be kept in storage for now. When needed, she said, it will be used in one of…
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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. – Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College and its Agriculture Innovation department recently hosted a unique educational experience – the CASE AgXplore Middle School Course – that is designed for agriculture teachers. CASE stands for Curriculum for Agriculture Science Education and is an initiative of the National Council for Agricultural Education and managed by the National Association of the Agricultural Educators (NAAE). CASE educators are also agriculture teachers, and they travel around the country during the summer and on school-year weekends to lead…
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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. – Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College is a partner in a state pilot project encouraging high school students to earn a year or more of college credit toward a bachelor’s degree in education while still in high school, providing them with a pathway to finish college with an education degree in just three years. Eastern is working with school systems in Grant, Hampshire, and Hardy counties as part of the Grow Your Own (GYO) project. GYO was unveiled by the state Department…
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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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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. – The Workforce Training Department at Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College has partnered with the Mineral County Technical Center, located at 981 Harley O. Staggers Drive in Keyser, to offer evening welding classes this fall, starting Sept. 12. Eastern’s welding classes are taught by Carl Rexrode of Burlington. Rexrode is a graduate of Keyser High School and the Mineral County Technical Center, and he worked as a welder for Mineral Fabrication and Machine for several years before teaching welding for the Mineral…
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Earlier this week Dr. Tom Striplin, president of Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College, met with Dr. Chris Gilmer, interim campus president of WVU Potomac State College, to discuss ways the two institutions might collaborate. As a result of their discussion, the two college leaders have agreed to begin work on joint initiatives intended to advance higher education opportunities for residents in the Potomac Highlands.
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MOOREFIELD, W.Va. – The start of the fall 2022 semester at Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College is approaching, with academic courses and several of the college’s short-term workforce training programs set to launch the week of Aug. 22. The last day to register for most of Eastern’s classes is Aug. 19. Eastern is an open-enrollment institution, with a free application process for academic or workforce students. Financial aid options are available to many students, whether part-time or full-time. Many programs at Eastern as…
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