Category: Education

Vance-Granville Community College will offer an information session for the Medical Office Administration program on Wednesday, July 27, at noon in room 4203 (Building 4) on the college’s Main Campus in Vance County. The Medical Office Administration curriculum prepares individuals for employment in medical and other health-care related offices. Course work includes medical terminology; information systems; office management; medical coding, billing and insurance; legal and ethical issues; and formatting and word processing. Students learn administrative and support functions and develop …

Andrew Markoch has been named as the new principal at Northern Vance High School. The Vance County Board of Education officially appointed Markoch to his new position during a special meeting Wednesday night. Markoch will join Vance County Schools after serving as an assistant principal at Wake Forest High School in Wake Forest and the principal of the school’s Ninth Grade Center. He has been an administrator at the school since July of 2003. Markoch, who lives in Rolesville, is …

Vance-Granville Community College honored 11 men and three women who completed the college’s year-long Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic program on July 13. The graduates included Michael Hunter Robbins of Bunn; Catherine Garner of Creedmoor; Fuller Caton, Herbert Hill Davis, James Hughes, Cassidy Ivey, William Jenkins, Tyler McDaniel and Courtney Moss, all of Henderson; David Drumheller of Mebane; Jonathan Kraemer of Raleigh; Harvey Grim of Roxboro; Joseph Farlow of Timberlake; and C.J. Phillips of Youngsville. Vivian Loyd, a Registered Nurse and Paramedic …

State Board of Education members recently approved the extension of the Department of Public Instruction’s Proof of Concept Study into the 2016-17 school year. State Superintendent June Atkinson said she was pleased Board members extended the study. “Teachers want interim assessments so that they may address their students’ academic needs when it will have the most impact,” Atkinson said. “Students participating in the study scored higher than those who were not in the study, which reflects the positive benefits to …

New Simulation and Game Development courses will be offered at Vance-Granville Community College during the fall semester, which begins Aug. 15, after the college’s Board of Trustees added a two-year degree track in the growing information technology career field. VGCC previously only offered first-year courses toward a similar degree, but now the full degree is available. The new second-year courses on the fall schedule include: Simulation/Game Audio/Video (SGD 164), which teaches students how to produce and edit audio and video …

Vance County Schools is now accepting applications for STEM Early High School for grades 7 and 8 for the 2016-2017 school year. STEM is an innovative early high school that focuses on science, mathematics, engineering and technology. All students are provided with a laptop computer and work collaboratively in an environment that encourages high levels of problem solving through the use of engineering principles and creativity. Limited space is available for students. Applications will be accepted through July 27 at …

Vance County Board of Education Called Meeting  Wednesday, July 13, 2016  5:30 p.m. in the Administrative Services Center Superintendent’s Conference Room 1724 Graham AvenueHenderson, NC  27536           I.        Call to Order *         II.       Approval of Meeting Agenda        *         III.      Executive Session – Personnel *         IV.      Adjournment   *       Requires Board Action

Vance-Granville Community College will hold the second “Enrollment Day” of the summer on Wednesday, July 20, from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m., at all four of its campuses. On Enrollment Day, VGCC counselors and other staff members will be ready to assist anyone who is interested in enrolling at the college for the Fall 2016 semester, which starts Monday, Aug. 15. No appointments are required. For new students, the process of enrollment begins with an application for admission and an …

The Male Mentoring program at Vance-Granville Community College took a group of students on an educational trip to Atlanta as the spring semester drew to a close. The “mentees” who participated in the tour included Benjamin Marshall of Butner; Mikal Williams of Clayton; Cody Boylorn, Tyler Boylorn and Joshua Horton, all of Franklinton; Christopher Blue and Dajuan Harrison, both of Henderson; Matthew Jaurique of Kittrell; Miles Brown and Tyrese Perry, both of Louisburg; Bradley Gooch, Quincy Hart and Jonathan Williamson, …

Vance-Granville Community College has announced that 125 students earned President’s List and 144 students earned Dean’s List academic honors for the spring semester that ended in May. The President’s List recognizes students who achieved a perfect 4.0 grade-point average (GPA) while carrying a “full load” (of at least 12 credit hours) in 100-level or higher curriculum courses. To qualify for the Dean’s List, a student had to earn a GPA that was at least 3.5 but less than 4.0, and …

Vance-Granville Community College has been awarded nearly $1 million as part of a federal grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to a consortium that involves three other North Carolina community colleges. The grant totals $4 million and will be split among VGCC, Alamance Community College, Halifax Community College and James Sprunt Community College. JSCC is serving as the lead institution in the consortium of colleges, called the North Carolina TechHire Alliance. Each college will use the funding for workforce …

Local educators in middle schools have been training and preparing during the past school year to bring a special program to their students for the 2016-2017 year. In the new school year, educators at Eaton-Johnson and Henderson middle schools will offer services to their students through the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program. AVID has been in local schools in previous years when it was offered several years ago at the high school level. School system officials made the decision several …

The new Vance-Granville Community College program for incoming first-year students, “Summer Bridge,” is still accepting applications and has been rescheduled for July 18-29. The Summer Bridge program is a two-week (Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.) intensive series of activities designed to help new students prepare to meet the challenges of college before the fall semester begins in August. Participants must first apply to VGCC, take the North Carolina Diagnostic and Placement (NC DAP) test and place into developmental math …

Career and Technical Education teachers in local high schools took part in three days of “AMSTA Summer Cruising” workshops June 14 and 16-17. The teachers are shown with local business leaders who include, seated starting at third from left, John Barnes of the Henderson-Vance County Chamber of Commerce, Monica Satterwhite of the N.C. Works Career Center, and Ben Foti of Kerr-Tar Workforce Development. The teachers were in Vance County on the first day and then joined educators from three other counties for the …

Twenty-nine rising sophomores in local high schools completed the Vance County School of Excellence program June 6-10. The School of Excellence is a summer enrichment leadership program designed to challenge participants to improve their communication skills, leadership abilities and to learn more about the Vance County business and educational communities. The students who completed this summer’s program are shown in the accompanying photo. They include, front row from left, Kaniyia Holden, Breanna Harris, Miracle Chin, Nancy Duran, Tomesha Jefferson and …

A new scholarship at Vance-Granville Community College will honor the memory of longtime Vance County business and community leader Sam Watkins Jr. His son, Trey Watkins of Wake Forest, recently visited VGCC to formally establish the “Sam Watkins Jr. Academic Achievement Scholarship” on behalf of himself and his wife, Sarah. Sam Watkins, who died in 2014 at the age of 80, was a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a U.S. Army veteran. For many …

Educators, local industry representatives and community leaders shared ideas at a panel discussion organized on June 16 by the Advanced Manufacturing Skills Training Alliance (AMSTA), a partnership of Vance-Granville Community College, Granville County Schools, Franklin County Schools, Warren County Schools and Vance County Schools. The event was part of “AMSTA Cruisers 2016,” a multi-day program that brought teachers from the four counties together to learn more about manufacturing and the regional economy. Held at Granville Central High School in Stem, …

A group of 18 students from Vance-Granville Community College recently received scholarships through the Golden LEAF Scholarship program for the North Carolina Community College System. The scholarship program, designed to help North Carolinians attend the state’s community colleges, is funded through a $750,000 grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. The scholarship can be used to assist with tuition, books, fees, supplies, transportation and childcare expenses related to attending classes during the 2015-16 academic year, and industry-recognized credential testing expenses that …

Dr. Ben F. Currin, the former president of Vance-Granville Community College, formally received the highest honor bestowed by the North Carolina Community College System, the I.E. Ready Award, at a recent ceremony. Held on May 27 at the Brio restaurant in Raleigh, the luncheon marked a VGCC “family reunion” that brought together longtime college trustees, Endowment Fund Board members and senior administrators. Exactly half of VGCC’s six presidents were in attendance, including Dr. Currin; Robert A. Miller, who succeeded Currin; …