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Feeling Snaky

Posted on March 7, 2005 by VGCC Staff
  Children in the Vance-Granville Community College Day Care Center had the opportunity to get up close and personal with several reptiles when the Museum of Life and Science visited their school recently. Here, a museum representative allows Jack Cheever and Megan Stainback, both 4 year-olds from Henderson, touch a corn snake as part of … Read More

Leaders foresee campus revamp UNC, community college chiefs ally

Posted on March 7, 2005 by VGCC Staff
She’s an academic, an economist by training who is prone to talking about international trade and global commerce. He’s a consummate politician, a North Carolina insider who sees the economy in terms of jobs created — and lost — throughout dozens of Tar Heel towns. They seem an unlikely couple, UNC system President Molly Broad … Read More

VGCC Seeks Franklin County Input At Long-Range Planning Session

Posted on March 3, 2005 by VGCC Staff
Vance-Granville Community College is inviting Franklin County residents to participate in a Strategic Initiatives Forum to help form a long-range plan for the college. The session will be held from noon to 2 p.m. in the multipurpose room at the Franklin County Campus on N.C. 56 west of Louisburg on Thursday, March 24. A box … Read More

EXPO 2005 Seeks Sponsors For October Event At VGCC

Posted on March 2, 2005 by VGCC Staff
      Businesses and organizations are being sought as Gold Premier or Silver Premiere sponsors for EXPO 2005, the 16th annual business exposition to be held Tuesday, Oct. 11, at the Vance-Granville Community College Civic Center. EXPO is an annual opportunity for organizations that do business in Vance, Granville, Franklin and Warren counties to … Read More

VGCC Celebrates Diversity At Cultural Fair

Posted on February 24, 2005 by VGCC Staff
Diversity was the operative word during Vance-Granville Community College’s annual Cultural Fair Thursday. Diversity of national exhibits. Diversity of entertainment. Diversity of food. Diversity of cultures. The college has the Cultural Fair each year to highlight the many different cultures represented among the students, faculty and staff at VGCC. Including the United States, Vance-Granville has … Read More

Granville Medical Seeks Employees At VGCC Career Day On April 13

Posted on February 18, 2005 by VGCC Staff
Granville Medical Center will be among 70-80 companies and agencies that will be looking for potential employees at the 27th annual Career Day at Vance-Granville Community College on Wednesday, April 13. Career Day is held annually in the spring to give potential employers an opportunity to tell Vance-Granville graduates and potential graduates about what their … Read More

VGCC Student Overcomes Many Obstacles To Reach Nursing Education Goal

Posted on February 18, 2005 by VGCC Staff
Renee Floyd’s middle name could well be “persistence.” The second-year Associate Degree Nursing student at Vance-Granville Community College has overcome obstacles that probably would have stopped a person with less determination, and she now has her goal of graduating from the nursing program in sight. Renee dropped out of high school to have a baby, … Read More

VGCC Offers Free Seminar On Effective Customer Service

Posted on February 18, 2005 by VGCC Staff
Business operators can learn methods to handle all types of customers in a free seminar at Vance-Granville Community College on March 15. The seminar will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. in Room 7107 in Building 7 on VGCC’s main campus. Denise Ryan, a consultant with Firestar of Raleigh, will instruct on how to … Read More

VGCC Continuing Education Students Create Mural

Posted on February 11, 2005 by VGCC Staff
Leila Brigham, right, Continuing Education art instructor at Vance-Granville Community College, and Pete Pernell of Allen’s Frameworks & Gallery, hang a mural painted by students in Brigham’s evening art class. Laurie Stephens of Oxford and Jim Goodwin and Gabe Hodges of Henderson selected the subject and completed the 50X77-inch painting in acrylics in four class … Read More

VGCC Offers 4 Mini-Semester Business Courses – All Online

Posted on February 10, 2005 by VGCC Staff
The opportunities to take classes online with a computer continue to grow at Vance-Granville Community College. The latest additions to the VGCC online offerings are four business courses that will be offered as mini-semester classes, Feb. 21-May 10. Mini-semester classes are classes that are held within a semester, but do not last the entire 16 … Read More