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VGCC Board of Trustees Hold Meeting

The Vance-Granville Community College Board of Trustees held their bimonthly meeting on September 17 at the Henderson campus of VGCC. During the meeting, Judge Daniel F. Finch swore in two Board members; plans were announced to re-roof the Civic Center and to add a new motorcycle safety program; and the Board learned that enrollment at  Read More

VGCC Financial Aid Representatives Hold Office Hours at Warren

Warren County area residents who want to attend Vance-Granville Community College and are wondering how to pay for school have a convenient way to get answers to their financial questions. Every Monday evening from 4:30 until 6 p.m., the staff of VGCC’s Financial Aid office, led by director Frank Clark, will be available in Building  Read More

VGCC hosts Writers’ Conference

The Literary Arts Club at Vance-Granville Community College will hold its first Writers’ Conference on Saturday, Sept. 22 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. in the Civic Center on the college’s main campus in Vance County. The event is open to the public and is free of charge. Participants will hear from professional writers about  Read More

EXPO 2007 Invites Public to learn about Businesses, Win Prizes

EXPO 2007, the 18th annual business exposition for Vance, Granville, Franklin and Warren counties, will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 9, from 1 to 7 p.m. in the Vance-Granville Community College Civic Center, and the public is invited to attend. Around 70 area businesses and agencies will be on hand to exhibit their products and  Read More

VGCC Honors 25 New Graduates of Nurse Aide I Program

Vance-Granville Community College recently held a pinning and graduation ceremony for graduates from the college’s Nurse Aide I, or CNA I, program. This occasion was a combined celebration for the students who completed their course work at the college’s Main Campus in Vance County and those who took classes at Kittrell Job Corps Center. These  Read More

VGCC Offers eBay Class

For those people who are cleaning out attics, basements and storage rooms this fall, a popular course at Vance-Granville Community helps area residents sell their unwanted treasures — and possibly find a few new treasures to buy — over the Internet through the eBay service (www.ebay.com). “Buying and Selling on eBay” will be offered in  Read More

VGCC offers Medical Coding program on Main Campus

Vance-Granville Community College will offer the Medical Coding certificate program on its main campus in Vance County this fall. Medical Coding is a thirteen-month program that includes training in coding, billing, insurance, medical terminology, and preparing for a certification test. Three options are available for students interested in Medical Coding. Starting Oct. 8, a day  Read More

Recent VGCC Graduate Honored by Governor

The following appeared in The Daily Dispatch on November 5, 2006 and is reprinted with permission. April Culbreth of Oxford was one of two North Carolina residents who received the Governor’s Award for Excellence — Outstanding Workforce Development Adult Participant Oct. 26. To be eligible for the award, a person must have completed a course  Read More

Nine Graduate from VGCC Nurse Aide I Program

Nine students at Vance-Granville Community College’s South Campus who have completed the Nurse Aide I program were honored at a graduation ceremony on October 25. Pictured, seated, from left: graduating students Victoria Pickens of Creedmoor and Christina Cash of Wake Forest; standing, from left: instructor Sherie Kemp-Bruce, RN, graduating students Perla Reyes of Butner, Patsy  Read More

VGCC Awarded Grant for Bioprocess Facility

Vance-Granville Community College will receive a $49,994 grant from the North Carolina Community College System BioNetwork, the State Board of Community Colleges recently announced. The grant was one of 42 approved by that board in September, representing more than three million dollars in grants for specialized biotechnology training at community colleges across the state. Community  Read More