BRCC Selected by Military Advanced Education Magazine for Inclusion in Their Guide to America’s Top Military-Friendly Colleges and Universities

Military Advanced Education (MAE) has selected Blue Ridge Community College (BRCC) for inclusion in their 5th Annual Guide to America’s Top Military-Friendly Colleges & Universities.

“The Guide has become an invaluable tool for both Education Service Officers/Specialists and Base Transition Officers when advising their servicemembers about degree and certification opportunities currently available from institutions of higher learning,” said MAE Associate Publisher Glenn R. Berlin. Continue reading →

Postmaster Brown as photographed by Arthur Rothstein in 1935.

Blue Ridge Community College will host a lecture about and showing of Richard Knox Robinson’s award-winning documentary “Rothstein’s First Assignment” on Tuesday, January 31, 2012, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Plecker Center auditorium. Continue reading →

Blue Ridge Community College students Stephanie Bottoms and Jay Ripley recently won national awards for poetry and artwork from the Community College Humanities Association.

Bottoms, a Verona resident, won an Honorable Mention award for her poem, The Reese’s Klondike Dance, published in 540 Magazine, BRCC’s literary magazine. Bottoms is a College Transfer major at BRCC and plans to study neuroscience at The College of William and Mary.

Ripley received an Honorable Mention award for his acrylic paintings, six of which also appeared in 540 Magazine. The Mount Sidney resident is pursuing an associate’s degree in art and is employed as a tattoo artist.

The Blue Ridge Community College Board recently appointed three new members. They are Rodney Alderfer, Joyce Colemon and Beverly McGowan. Continue reading →

The Blue Ridge Community College Educational Foundation recently appointed four new members to its board. They are John S. Barret Jr., Alphonso P. Boxley III, Denise E. Dawson and Thomas C. Mendez.

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Results of The Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2011 survey of “Great Colleges to Work For” were released today and Blue Ridge Community College was once again recognized as a “Great College to Work For” in 10 of the 12 two-year college categories.  The primary factor in deciding whether an institution received Great College to Work For recognition was employee feedback.  Continue reading →

The Blue Ridge Community College SIFE team was named first-runner-up in the semi-final round at the SIFE National Exposition held last week in Minneapolis, MN. They finished ahead of former national champion The University of Arizona, as well as teams from Heritage University and the University of South Florida in their division. Over 160 teams from two- and four-year schools competed at the SIFE USA Championship.

Blue Ridge was the only two-year college in the top eight. This marks the eighth straight year that BRCC SIFE has advanced to national competition. Continue reading →

May 14, 2011

WEYERS CAVE─ Blue Ridge Community College conferred more than 800 degrees, diplomas and certificates at its 43rd commencement today. Ms. Heather Bowser, a 2001 BRCC graduate, former award-winning news reporter for the Daily News Record and Senior Copywriter for OptimizedNow, a marketing firm based in Potomac, Md., delivered the commencement address. Megan LaPrevotte, recipient of an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Administration of Justice, was the student speaker.

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