Jeffery Corbett’s daughter is attending community college. Corbett, a fundraiser for a nonprofit, says a high school diploma just won’t get you very far. And he knows; he doesn’t have a college degree.

There’s a reason why one-fifth of the nation’s community colleges don’t offer federal student loans. Find out why.

Virginia undergraduates at public four-year colleges and universities in the Commonwealth will experience an average increase of…

The awards were given this year by the Virginia Press Women for excellence in communications.

The College is one of 17 community colleges nationwide participating in the initiative, and one of four selected as a mentor college. Mentor colleges were selected from AACC’s 2008-2010 Workforce Economic Opportunity Initiative.

Northern Virginia Community College’s Robotics Team 1 has won the design award at the VEX Robotics World Championship in Anaheim, Calif.

Summer fellows will have the chance to develop all the skills needed to be top-notch organizers — learning to run phone banks, conduct press conferences, and rally support around the issues important to their communities.

Three NOVA students have been awarded Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarships.

According to the official “Thurston” website, the show is a “Western drama about the residents of a remote mining town and their struggle for survival in the 1880’s Kansas Ozarks.”

How are the students who are involved in their community and want a more rigorous academic experience going to separate themselves from being just one in the thousands of students also looking to transfer to another college?