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blank Featured News From Construction to Healthcare, A Mid-life Career Change

“I was a 49-year-old injured construction worker. Now I’m a 50-year-old college graduate,” says Harley Taylor with pride.

Read more → January 30, 2012
blank Featured News New Immigrants, New Language

ESL students Flora and Rinat Bikbaev’s lives were changed dramatically when they won the lottery.

Read more → January 20, 2012
blank Featured News The Boss Lady

Elizabeth Walton wanted to run her own business in handling promotion and distribution for underground music artists.

Read more → January 13, 2012
blank Featured News Graduate uses Training in Rural Uganda

Physician Adolfo Mesa, orginally from Columbia, received a medical assisting degree when he moved to the Roanoke Valley to add to his…

Read more → December 17, 2011
blank Featured News Entire Nursing Class Receives Job Offers

This November, the Pikeville Campus graduated its latest class of 14 students from the campus’s nursing program.

Read more → December 9, 2011
blank Featured News Jack of All Trades

When Dwayne Martin came to the Madison campus, he was looking for a better job and knew he needed training and an…

Read more → December 2, 2011
blank Featured News At Home in an Online Program

Kathy Orton graduated in 1994 with an associate degree in business administration management right after graduating high school. After several years of…

Read more → November 18, 2011
blank Featured News National Graduates are a Perfect Fit for a Local Employer

When Connextions, a technology-enabled contact center, needed employees to work with their pharmaceutical management clients, Human Resources Manager Christy Frederick was pleased…

Read more → October 19, 2011
blank Featured News National Graduates are a Perfect Fit for a Local Employer

When Connextions, a technology-enabled contact center, needed employees to work with their pharmaceutical management clients, Human Resources Manager Christy Frederick was pleased…

Read more → October 19, 2011
blank Featured News National Students & Alumni Take on Capitol Hill

More than 2,000 private sector college students rally for educational choice

Read more → October 14, 2011
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