Category: Education

  VANCE COUNTY SCHOOLS   WEEKLY SCHOOL NEWS   Volume 3, Issue 3 A Publication for Middle and High Schools September 1-5, 2014       The MISSION of Vance County Schools is to be committed to educating all students to prepare them for lifelong learning and productive citizenship.   IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS       Blackboard Connect training session for principals, some assistant   principals and all school data managers at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday in the   Board Room …

LOUISBURG, N.C.— Louisburg College President Mark La Branche is pleased to announce that Jonathan Ehrlich will be joining the staff in October as its next Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer.  Ehrlich’s hiring concludes an extensive national search to replace retiring current CFO Belinda Faulkner. “I do not believe we could have attracted a more fitting candidate,” says La Branche. “He is very pleased to be joining the College, as well as being impressed with the progress made and …

Vance County Schools wants to keep students and their parents informed about required testing in our high schools for grades 9-12. According to State Board of Education policy, students who are enrolled for credit in courses in which end-of-course (EOC) assessments are required shall take the appropriate EOC assessment at the completion of the course. Students may drop a course with an EOC assessment within the first 10 days of enrollment in a semester/4X4 course or within the first 20 …

Vance County Board of Education Committee Meeting Dates:             * Building & Grounds, Thursday, Aug. 28th, 8:30 am                       * Curriculum Committee, Thursday, Aug. 28th, 9:15 am                    * Personnel Committee, Tuesday, Sept. 2nd, 8:30 am   Note:  All meetings are held in the Superintendent’s Conference Room.                                                                                           

Vance-Granville Community College held a pinning ceremony for its 2014 Medical Assisting program graduates on Aug. 8 at the college’s Franklin County Campus in Louisburg, where the program is conducted. As VGCC’s program is nationally accredited, graduates are now eligible to sit for the American Association of Medical Assistants’ (AAMA) certification examination to become Certified Medical Assistants. The 13 graduates being honored included Sharon Alease Greene of Castalia; Ashley Renee Pulliam Scarberry of Creedmoor; Candace Lane Bray and Henrry Rebollar-Miguel, …

Vance County Schools is joining public school systems across North Carolina in asking motorists to adhere to the “Stop Arm” signs on school buses and to stop their vehicles completely while students board and get off of school buses. The school system has approximately 85 school buses which travel Vance County streets and roadways each morning and afternoon on school days to transport over 4,000 students to and from school each day. While school officials don’t see a large number …

LOUISBURG, N.C.— Louisburg College is proud to welcome more than 440 new students – one of our largest and most impressive freshman classes. This class of students hails from 13 states and 6 foreign countries, includes an impressive number of Merit Scholars and a local valedictorian, and proudly holds the highest overall GPA average that Louisburg College has seen in more than a decade.   More than 262 second-year students returned to campus on Tuesday, for a total enrollment of more …

Vance-Granville Community College will offer a course on “afternoon tea,” the tradition that is enjoying a renaissance as fine hotels, inns and tea rooms across the country give guests an opportunity to retreat from the hurried pace of their lives.  The course, called “Let’s Have a Tea Party,” will meet on VGCC’s Main Campus in Vance County, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 until 4 p.m., starting Sept. 30. The final class and “graduation” ceremony is an actual afternoon tea …

The Vance-Granville Community College Small Business Center has scheduled a free seminar, entitled “Finding & Writing Grants,” for Thursday, Sept. 11, from 1 until 4 p.m. at the college’s Warren County Campus in Warrenton. Ideally suited for non-profit organizations, this seminar focuses on how to get organized to prepare grant proposals, along with grant-writing tips. Topics to be discussed include: how to be prepared as an organization, elements of a grant proposal, researching potential funders and building relationships with funders. …

Vance-Granville Community College has scheduled several non-credit personal enrichment classes to start soon on the college’s Main Campus in Vance County and the Franklin County Campus near Louisburg, offering area residents a variety of fun opportunities to learn new skills or develop hobbies. Painting classes taught by longtime art instructor Lelia Brigham will be offered on Monday evenings from 6:30 until 9:30 p.m., Sept. 8 through Dec. 8, and on Tuesdays from 9:15 a.m. until 12:15 p.m., Sept. 9 through …

Duke Energy recently presented a $2,000 contribution to the Vance-Granville Community College Endowment Fund. These funds will be used to provide two scholarships, worth $1,000 each, for students enrolled in the college’s new Mechatronics Engineering Technology program. This is not the first contribution by Duke Energy to the new curriculum program, which is based at VGCC’s South Campus, located between Butner and Creedmoor. Earlier this year, VGCC received a $245,923 grant from the Duke Energy Foundation to purchase state-of-the-art, industrial-grade …

The 2014-2015 school year has already begun for Vance County Schools with the Early College High School students beginning their classes on August 7, new teachers starting work on August 11 and all other teachers beginning work today. The remaining students at the school system’s other 16 schools are set to begin classes on Monday, August 25. The Open House sessions for students and their parents at all schools, with the exception of the new STEM Early High School, will …

Officials from Vance-Granville Community College offered tips to their colleagues from across the state at the inaugural NC Community Colleges Performance Partnership Summit, held at the Embassy Suites in Cary on July 31. The college was asked to present after recently being recognized as a leader in preparing students to succeed on certification tests. The North Carolina Community College System named VGCC a “mentor college” when it comes to best practices in passing rates on various licensure exams that the …

Vance-Granville Community College recently named Sara Lloyd as Director of Customized Training. In that position, she will use her extensive industry experience to help meet the needs of area manufacturers and other employers. Lloyd, who has lived in Oxford for the past 15 years, has worked in the manufacturing sector as a supervisor, quality assurance coordinator, process engineer, continuous improvement manager, Lean Six Sigma Specialist and manager of corporate projects. In those positions, she was directly involved with training employees …

Closer alignment between the needs of employers and the training offered at community colleges was the topic of a recent meeting hosted by Vance-Granville Community College. Presidents and other officials from Durham Technical Community College and Piedmont Community College joined their Vance-Granville colleagues, along with business, industry and economic development leaders, on Aug. 7 at a regional “Align4NCWorks” Learning Summit in the VGCC Civic Center. Approximately 75 people attended, among them N.C. Rep. W. A. “Winkie” Wilkins of Roxboro and …