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New River Community College

School Overview:

School Notes:

• In 1959 New River Community College began offering vocational/technical courses as a vocational/technical school to residents in the New River Valley. It is one of five colleges which developed from existing vocational/ technical schools into community colleges under 1966 General Assembly legislation which formed the Virginia Community College System.
• The college continued the occupational/technical programs in Machine Shop, Drafting and Design, Auto Mechanics, Practical Nursing, Industrial Electricity, Electronics, Instrumentation, Clerk Typing, and Stenography.Programs leading to the Associate in Applied Science Degree in Accounting, Business Management and Secretarial Science were added in the fall term of 1970. Degree programs designed for transfer to four-year colleges were also offered at that time. These included the Associate of Arts Degree program in Liberal Arts and the Associate in Science Degree programs in Science, Education, Business Administration, and General Studies.
• The college is located on a one-hundred acre site at the intersection of U.S. Routes 11 and 100 in Dublin, Virginia. The campus provides modern, well-equipped facilities for the vocational/technical programs as well as for university- parallel programs. The facilities contain labs for Administrative Support Technology, Accounting, Automotive, Drafting and Design, Electronics, Electricity, Fiber Optics, Forensic Science, Information Systems Technology, Instrumentation, Machine Shop, Natural Science classes, Network Design and Installation, Nursing, Programmable Logic Controllers, and Welding.
• New River Community College offers programs two years beyond the high school level. The college offers Occupational/Technical Education, University parallel/College transfer Education, General education, Continuing education, Customized training programs, Developmental courses
• NRCC is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award the associate degree.

In the News:

• 6th and 7th District candidates to attend Pulaski Co. candidate forum Wednesday (WSLS Newschannel 10 Roanoke)
  posted on October 7, 2009 at 08:48:46 am
  It will be from 7-9 p.m. in Edwards Hall at New River Community College in Dublin
• Community college plans for funding cuts - roanoke.com (The New River Valley Current)
  posted on September 30, 2009 at 05:48:03 am
  New River Community College in Dublin must cope with a $1.3 million cut to its budget this year, officials announced last week. Earlier this month, Gov. Tim Kaine announced cuts to state funding for colleges and universities of up to 15 percent to help offset a $1.35 billion state revenue shortfall.
• Boucher unconvinced on 'government option' for health care - roanoke.com (Roanoke Times)
  posted on August 19, 2009 at 05:37:54 am
  District 9 voters sounded off at a Tuesday forum in Dublin. DUBLIN -- Emotions ran high as about 1,200 people packed an auditorium at New River Community College on Tuesday to tell U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher why they opposed or supported the attempt to overhaul health care.
• Listen, Be Heard At Thursday Forum (Bristol Herald Courier)
  posted on August 19, 2009 at 04:55:07 am
  Don’t be surprised if the health care forum hosted by U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher early Thursday in Abingdon follows a similar pattern already seen across the country – protesters, anger and jeering.
• Region’s chance to speak out: (Bluefield Daily Telegraph)
  posted on August 16, 2009 at 09:20:59 am
  Organizers hope for peaceful, productive health care debate at Princeton town hall meeting

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