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July 26th | 2024

Southwest Virginia Community College’s Workforce & Continuing Education department highlights Wade Vance’s success through its fast-track programs in this video. Vance, who previously faced unemployment and had no carpentry experience,

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Alumni
October 17th | 2023

The Southwest Virginia Community College Educational Foundation has appointed Stacey McGhee as its new Executive Director. With her deep-rooted commitment spanning over a decade, McGhee is poised to fortify the

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Alumni
May 4th | 2023

The Distinguished Alumni Award is the highest honor bestowed upon outstanding graduates from Southwest Virginia Community College (SWCC). Since the establishment of the award in 1980, forty-three graduates of SWCC

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Alumni
April 28th | 2023

Dr. Peter Mulkey, CEO of Clinch Valley Health and a resident of Richlands, Virginia, has been honored with the 17th Annual Chancellor’s Award for Leadership in Philanthropy.   The award was

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Alumni
June 8th | 2022

The Virginia Commonwealth University pinning ceremony for the Medical Laboratory Sciences program was held recently in Richmond, VA for 2022 graduates. Pictured are the students of the MLS program at

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Alumni
December 13th | 2021

A new scholarship at Southwest Virginia Community College (Southwest) has been endowed in honor of Mr. Bud Phillips by the Board of Supervisors of Dickenson County, Virginia. The scholarship will

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Alumni
June 23rd | 2021

The Honorable Kimberly Michelle Jenkins, an accomplished judge, attorney, entrepreneur, and exceptional community leader, has been named the Southwest Virginia Community College 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient.

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Alumni
April 3rd | 2020

Hometown: Greensboro, NC Major/Degree: Business Management Currently: Student at Elon University School of Law What his experience was like at Southwest: “Taking online classes taught me more than academics. I

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Alumni
February 20th | 2020

Teams of Southwest Virginia Community College students, faculty, and staff joined with members of other local organizations for a community cleanup day after the flooding on February 6, 2020. On

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Alumni
December 18th | 2019

Our first Alumni Spotlight video features Virginia State Police Trooper Austin Benfield. Austin graduated from Southwest in 2016 and has been a trooper for over two years now.

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