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Eastern’s welding classes to start Sept. 12 in Keyser

August 4, 2022

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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From left, standing against bookcase, arePhillip Douthitt, Dr. Chris Gilmer, Dr. Tom Striplin, and Beth Little

Eastern exploring joint initiatives with WVU Potomac State College

August 2, 2022

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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Eastern’s fall semester begins Aug. 22

August 1, 2022

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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Eastern donates training equipment to Grant Memorial Hospital

July 25, 2022

MOOREFIELD, W.Va. – Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College is updating its nursing skills lab this summer and needed to free up some space in the lab, so the nursing program has donated three of its training mannequins and a hospital bed to Grant Memorial Hospital (GMH), located in Petersburg, where Jaime Bland, GMH human resources generalist, said the equipment will be used for hospital staff training. Eastern has maintained a long-time partnership with GMH, where nursing students gain valuable clinical experiences at the…

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The Misty Mountain Event Barn was the venue for the 2022 Farm to Table Dinner.

Foundation’s Farm to Table Dinner a Success

July 8, 2022

Fundraising event raised money for scholarships and featured local agricultural products MOOREFIELD, W.Va. – The Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College Foundation held its Farm to Table dinner at the end of June, and the event featured a variety of the region’s agricultural products and producers, while also raising money to support students at the community college. The dinner is the college foundation’s largest fundraising event each year. Rob Burns, director of nonprofits at Eastern, said preliminary figures indicate this year’s Farm to Table…

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Farming roots motivate Eastern’s Carissa Beard to grow agriculture

June 29, 2022

It’s been a busy couple of months for Carissa Wilson Beard, Eastern’s new director of agriculture innovation, but managing life on her farm in Burlington with her husband Steven, caring for her two children, her entrepreneurial turn as a business partner of the relaunched Arthur Mart Liberty in Grant County, and her varied educational and work experiences have already prepared her for the quick pace of the job. Beard started working at Eastern in late April, and she immediately dove into preparations for some of…

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Grant, Hardy and Tucker County Students Win Big in BRITE Challenge STEM Competition

June 3, 2022

Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College, in partnership with the National Youth Science Center, awarded over $13,000 to middle and high school students at the first annual BRITE Challenge.  Held on May 6 at the National Youth Science Center in Davis, the challenge showcased 19 teams’ Business Startup Ideas or STEM Innovations inspired by state-of-the-art equipment donated to classrooms as part of Eastern’s Makerspace Project, which was implemented in the 2021-2022 school year.   More than 60 students in fifth through 12th grades presented their innovative ideas…

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Eastern Foundation and Clearway Creating Wind Energy Scholarship Fund

June 2, 2022

The Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College Foundation has received a $20,000 grant from the Clearway Community Benefit Fund to establish a scholarship fund to support students enrolled in the wind energy technology program at Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College.  The Clearway Community Benefit Fund was created by Clearway Energy Group to support charitable projects and programs in the communities surrounding the Black Rock wind farm near Elk Garden, which began operations earlier this year. The community fund is managed by the US Wind…

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Members of the 2022 Nursing Cohort at Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College stand at the front of the auditorium and read the Nightingale Pledge at their Pinning Ceremony in May 2022.

Eastern Awarded $278,500 Through Gov. Justice’s Nursing Workforce Expansion Program

May 25, 2022

MOOREFIELD, W.Va. – Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College has been awarded $278,500 through West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s Nursing Workforce Expansion Program, which is designed to address the state’s nursing shortage through a multifaceted approach to attract, train, and retain nurses in the Mountain State. Representing a fundamental part of this approach, an award program was established to fund nursing program expansion projects at colleges, universities, schools of nursing, and career technical education centers across West Virginia.   Through Eastern’s award, the college…

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Student Government Association Officers Selected

May 20, 2022

Eastern’s Student Government Association (SGA) announces its trio of officers, who are serving for the upcoming school term. President – Trevor Southerly – Trevor Southerly is a business major and has been an Eastern student since the fall semester of 2021. Trevor was formerly the project manager of Hardy United Community Development Project, is a 2017 recipient of the Golden Horseshoe Award, and is currently running for Hardy County Clerk! Southerly said he is proud to serve the students of Eastern and the great people…

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