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Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College has expanded its Community Engagement and Partnerships department with the hiring of four new employees to help carry out its mission of providing affordable and accessible academic, technical, workforce training, and life-long learning for the Potomac Highlands regional community.
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Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College Agriculture Innovation Program supports the next generation of agriculturists by providing an in-school agricultural educational farmers market experiential program. The Potomac Highlands Producers Cooperative worked with local producers in the region to purchase seasonal produce to construct a mock farmers market in Moorefield Intermediate School and East Hardy Middle School in early October. As part of the hands-on educational sessions, students received coupons to purchase produce from the mock farmers market. “This not only sparked interest of the…
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Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College has announced a new partnership with Weimer Automotive to provide a “Learn and Earn” program for students enrolled in its automotive technology program. Starting in Fall 2022, the Learn and Earn program will provide second-year automotive technology students an opportunity to experience working in a dealership, practice their learning outcomes and be paid while they train for their careers.
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Dr. Tom Striplin, President of Eastern West Virginia Community & Technical College announced that the U.S. Department of Education selected the college for a Title III – Strengthening Institutions Program award for their proposal, “Advising, Technology, Training and Innovation” (ATTAIN). This competitive federal grant will provide the college $2.25 million dollars over the next five years to strengthen educational experiences and student services.
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The Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College Foundation and WordPlay will be holding a Storytime and Signing event with Joe McGee and Jess Rinker, local children’s authors, and faculty at Eastern. The event, to be held on October 13, 2021, from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. at Eastern’s Main Campus in Moorefield, will support the Eastern Arts Society which celebrates, promotes, and fosters creativity through publication, sponsored events, and club activities. The authors, Jess Rinker, adjunct faculty and author of The Dare Sisters, Send a…
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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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The agreement extends online, competency-based learning opportunities to all community college graduates and employees while establishes a 3+1 transfer program in Nursing. Western Governors University (WGU) and Eastern West Virginia Community & Technical College today announced a new partnership with Western Governors University (WGU) that allows Eastern West Virginia Community & Technical College graduates to seamlessly transfer their coursework to the accredited, online university. Through this collaborative effort, WGU will provide Eastern West Virginia Community & Technical College students and its employees flexible, personalized learning…
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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 West Virginia Community and Technical College Workforce Education Department will be holding a webinar on June 17 at 6:00 PM that will focus on reviewing and discussing the major legislative bills that were passed by the West Virginia Legislature in the spring 2021 session and their impact on the hospitality, lodging, and travel industries in West Virginia. The event will be held virtually via Microsoft Teams. Richie Heath, Executive Director of the West Virginia Hospitality and Travel Association will lead the panel discussion. As Executive…
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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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