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Wytheville Community College

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School Notes:

• In 1962, a steering committee composed of area citizens was organized to obtain support for a college in Wytheville. After approval by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and the General Assembly, the Wythe County-owned Simmerman Building was chosen as the first site of the college. Wytheville Community College welcomed its first students in September, 1963, as a two-year branch of Virginia Polytechnic Institute. During its first year of operation, the college enrolled 107 students and employed five full-time faculty members.
• Wytheville Community College commits to a student-centered environment by providing programs and courses in occupational-technical education, college transfer education, general education, developmental education, distance education, continuing education, and workforce development.
• Wytheville Community College is approved by the State Board for Community Colleges and by the Virginia Community College System. The associate degree curricula of the college have also been approved by the State Council of Higher Education. Wytheville Community College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award the associate degree.
• Profile last updated: 01/09/2009.

In the News:

• STRICTLY OBSERVING: Acting out (The Bland County Messenger)
  posted on March 16, 2010 at 08:33:57 pm
  As excited as I was that Wytheville Community College had resumed its theater program after the long awaited renovation to Snyder Auditorium, I must admit my apprehension at seeing a play consisting only of eight separate monologues.
• Physical therapy assistant training (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
  posted on March 13, 2010 at 05:15:15 am
  Physical therapy assistant is hot job Q:I was particularly interested in an article in Sunday’s paper [Feb. 28] about health-care jobs. I’ve been considering going back to school to become a physical therapy assistant. The biggest roadblock I’ve run across is that there are no schools here in central Virginia that offer this program. Are there any?
• Candidates for president’s job at VHCC narrowed to three (Bristol Herald Courier)
  posted on March 12, 2010 at 03:36:21 am
  The list of candidates for the president’s job at Virginia Highlands Community College has been narrowed to three, and all are scheduled to visit the campus in the next two weeks.
• STRICTLY OBSERVING: Dream a little dream (Wytheville Enterprise)
  posted on March 10, 2010 at 03:09:38 pm
  A veteran of Wytheville theatre, singer/actor Nathan Alston has been busy in Greensboro, N.C., as owner, producer and artistic director of the Naroshmi Theatre Company, where he has just completed a run at the Barn Dinner Theatre in Greensboro starring in his own musical drama, Dreams of a King: The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Honoring the late civil rights pioneer, the musical follows ...
• WCC men’s basketball team is ready to begin tournament (Wytheville Enterprise)
  posted on March 9, 2010 at 07:24:18 pm
  The Wytheville Community College men’s basketball team enters the Virginia Community College System’s (VCCS) tournament this weekend riding a nice wave of momentum.

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