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VGCC Graduate’s Determination Highlighted on TV Program

Posted on January 9, 2007 by VGCC Staff
The success story of Vance-Granville Community College Nursing graduate and Stem resident April Culbreth is featured on the January 2007 edition of Vance-Granville Today, a half-hour television program produced by the college. Vance-Granville Today airs each Thursday on WAX-TV (available on Time Warner cable channel 7 in some areas) at 8 p.m., with a repeat … Read More

Anonymous Donor Endows $10,000 Scholarship for VGCC Students

Posted on January 8, 2007 by VGCC Staff
Above: Kay Currin, Endowment Fund specialist for Vance-Granville Community College, presents a $10,000 check from an anonymous donor to VGCC President Randy Parker (right) on Jan. 3. Parker said that the anonymous gift would endow an Academic Achievement scholarship for a full-time student. Endowed scholarships are funded by interest earned on the Endowment Fund and … Read More

VGCC Medical Coding program comes to South Campus

Posted on January 5, 2007 by VGCC Staff
Vance-Granville Community College will make the Medical Coding certificate program available at its South Campus in Granville County. Medical Coding is a thirteen-month Community and Economic Development program that is also offered on other VGCC campuses. It includes training in coding, billing, insurance, medical terminology, and preparing for a certification test. Starting in February, an … Read More

VGCC Offers Seminar on Dealing with Difficult People

Posted on January 2, 2007 by VGCC Staff
Vance-Granville Community College’s Small Business Center will present a free seminar, entitled “Surviving and Thriving around People who Drive You Crazy,” on Tuesday, Jan. 30. The seminar will be held from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in room 7107 of Building 7 on the college’s main campus in Vance County. Jess McLamb of Raleigh, president … Read More

VGCC Nurse Aide Graduate Pam Marion Prepared to Lead

Posted on January 1, 2007 by VGCC Staff
Pamela “Pam” Goss Marion of Creedmoor is one of many people who have taken advantage of the Nursing Assistant program at Vance-Granville Community College. But she enrolled in the course for different reasons than those of her classmates.  When her job in the information technology industry moved to China, Marion, who has a bachelor’s degree … Read More

VGCC and NCCU Sign Agreements, Discuss Partnerships

Posted on December 14, 2006 by VGCC Staff
Leaders from North Carolina Central University (NCCU) and Vance-Granville Community College met Thursday to sign new articulation agreements and to discuss how to boost enrollment of African American males in higher education, especially in VGCC’s programs.VGCC President Randy Parker and Dr. Beverly Washington Jones, NCCU’s provost and vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, signed two agreements … Read More

Kapp will judge Art show at VGCC

Posted on October 20, 2006 by VGCC Staff
Chancy M. Kapp of Raleigh will serve as the juror, or judge, of Autumn Arts 2006, the 31st installment of the annual juried art show sponsored by Vance-Granville Community College and the Kerr Lake Art Society, which will be held at the college Nov. 6 through Dec. 1. Kapp is the Assistant to the President … Read More

VGCC Offers Seminar on Women Working with Women

Posted on September 22, 2006 by VGCC Staff
Vance-Granville Community College’s Small Business Center will present a free seminar on Tuesday, Oct. 3, entitled “The Challenges of Women Working with Women.”  The seminar will be held from 9 a.m. to noon in Room 7107 of Building 7 on the college’s Main Campus in Vance County.  “Many of you have had to endure gossip, … Read More

Scholarship Endowed in Memory of Walter J. Rublein

Posted on September 20, 2006 by VGCC Staff
Above: Betsy Rublein of Henderson presents a check to Vance-Granville Community College President Randy Parker (center) and VGCC Endowment Fund specialist Kay Currin (right) to establish an Academic Achievement Award scholarship in memory of her husband, Walter J. Rublein, who died earlier this year.  Mr. Rublein was an instructor at VGCC from 1981 to 2000 … Read More

VGCC Hosts Information Session on Getting Education Degree

Posted on September 18, 2006 by VGCC Staff
East Carolina University Offers Education Degrees Through Distance Education Interested in becoming an elementary, special education, or middle school teacher?  You can earn a bachelor’s degree in education from East Carolina University through Wachovia Partnership East.  Wachovia Partnership East provides students the opportunity to take the first two years of coursework at their local community … Read More