Goochland Campus Opens Doors To Community

Nearly 100 people visited the Goochland Campus lately patch aid the campus’ Open House during Community Night.

During the event, attendees were able to accept gratis 1 hr classes. Some of the classes offered included, Small Business too Entrepreneurship, Emerging technologies – Hybrids too Electric Vehicles, Pathways for Education Careers, Fall Floral Design, Winter Storage for Your Lawn & Garden Equipment too Basic Castilian inwards forty minutes.

Along alongside gratis classes, the participants were able to apply to the College too register for Spring 2012 classes.

“The Goochland Community did a neat chore inwards supporting the Goochland Campus,” said Chuck Swaim, assistant dean for the School of Business too Engineering. “The comments inwards our feedback surveys were extremely positive too encouraged our College to repeat this final result every semester! We are really proud of our campus too it is overnice to request heed that our community recognizes the difficult run of our faculty too staff.”

Reynolds Campuses Comprehend Multiculturalism

Some of the most successful events hosted past times Reynolds are coordinated through the College’s Multicultural Enrichment Council. This semester, the MEC hosted a Diversity Health Fair, a multicultural motion painting series, in addition to a mass discussion. The vision of the MEC is to exercise in addition to implement multicultural experiences for faculty, staff, students in addition to the community. The Council every bit good attempts to develop the college community on the importance of fairness in addition to inclusiveness, in addition to the credence of differing views, beliefs, opinions, in addition to perspectives of other people—both within in addition to exterior of the classroom.

For the holidays, the MEC is showcasing data on Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights (celebrated Dec xx through Dec 28) in addition to Kwanzaa, a Celebration of Family, Community in addition to Culture (celebrated Dec 26 through Jan 1). Read to a greater extent than near these holidays in addition to the traditions associated amongst them at www.reynolds.edu/events.

Stay tuned for events during the spring, including unopen to other mass discussion, a Black History Month speaker series, and a women's history calendar month resultant that includes a panel of renowned women in addition to a jump concert.

Diversity Health Fair participants perish moving.

Diversity Health Fair exhibitors offered data on dorsum health, fry safety, men's wellness in addition to more.

MEC mass discussions in addition to motion painting nights ever include a give-and-take near the cultures in addition to traditions portrayed inwards the films in addition to novels. Traditional foods are frequently served every bit well. Recently, traditional Western Farsi cuisine was offered during the give-and-take of the motion painting "House of Sand in addition to Fog."

Reynolds Hosts An Update On Jobs For Vets

(left to right) VCCS Chancellor Glenn DuBois, JSRCC President Gary Rhodes,
Lt. Governor Bill Bolling, Senator Mark Warner, Congressman Bobby Scott.

Virginia’s leaders came together on Reynolds’ Parham Road Campus lately to update each other too the community on efforts that encourage individual sector employers to hire veterans. Following comments from Virginia’s Lt. Governor Bill Bolling, Senator Mark Warner too Congressman Bobby Scott, representatives from the Armed Forces discussed the transferable skills that today’s armed services veterans could convey to the individual sector workforce.

Noting that unemployment rates for veterans returning from state of war is now more than of 12 percent, Warner said that jobs inwards the unloose energy land offering the most potential. Dominion representatives concluded the effect amongst data close their Troops to Energy Jobs Initiative, a novel maiden designed to accelerate the preparation too employability of veterans inwards fundamental unloose energy positions. According to troopstoenergyjobs.com, Troops to Energy Jobs is currently inwards a airplane pilot stage, too includes selected airplane pilot utilities that select been recognized every bit Top Military Employers too that operate inwards states amongst a strong State Energy Workforce Consortia. Dominion Resources Services, from Dominion Virginia Power is i of those companies. The destination is to expand the programme to the entire unloose energy industry.

Virginia Community College System Chancellor Glenn DuBois too other VCCS representatives every bit good provided remarks regarding the purpose community colleges could potentially play inwards this initiative. Military personnel explained that although the skills too sense they have over the course of report of their careers ofttimes jibe individual sector needs, they lack the civilian certifications necessary for individual sector employment.

Reynolds Receives Tiptop Security Ranking

StateUniversity.com ranked J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College #4 inward the acre of Virginia for campus safety. The ratings are based on incidents of campus criminal offence including assault, theft, motor vehicle theft together with vehement crimes. StateUniversity.com is a leading beginning of information together with information on higher education. The site features profiles nigh colleges together with provides tools to assist prospective students narrow their choices.

J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College Department of Police Chief Paul Ronca said, “learning inward a rubber surroundings is a JSRCC priority. The Police Department recognizes that this tin but be accomplished through partnerships created amongst our faculty, students together with staff. Our officers locomote diligently to supply an fantabulous together with professional person subdivision that is committed to the security of our community. However, the credit is non the Department’s alone, it belongs to all of the JSRCC faculty, students together with staff."   

Ronca joined Reynolds every bit the Chief of Police inward 2010. The J. Sargeant Reynolds Police Department adopted the community policing model together with believes security of the college tin but live on achieved amongst our internal together with external partners. 

Jsrcc Hosts Nursing Recognition Ceremony

Recent graduates of the J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College Associate of Applied Science inwards Nursing score plan participated inwards the biannual Nursing Recognition Ceremony on Tuesday, January 10.

The ceremony opened alongside a welcome past times JSRCC President Gary L. Rhodes, Ed.D., followed past times an inspirational keynote address from Amy Gillespie, RN, MSN, Ed.D. who serves every bit Nursing Leadership Advisor for the Nurse Leadership Institute of Virginia. Gillespie told the 74 nursing graduates to recollect iii points: perish on focus on the patient past times listening attentively; move bright at the basic skills; in addition to never terminate learning.

Graduates earning particular awards during the ceremony include:

·        Susan Sisk—Fundamentals of Nursing

·        Janet Schaeffer—Level II Medical-Surgical Nursing

·        Caroline Garnett—Maternity Nursing

·        Christina Dobyns—Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

·        Osiris Granger—Pediatric Nursing

·        Sandra Toro—Level III Medical-Surgical Nursing

·        Deirdre Mailloux—Evelyn Bacon Award

·        Charles McDonough—Fran Stanley Award

The J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College nursing plan is designed to laid upward its students to participate every bit collaborative members of nursing attention teams in addition to to render straight attention to patients inwards a diversity of hospitals, wellness service facilities in addition to agencies. Upon satisfactory completion of the program, students are eligible to accept the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX-RN) to perish a Registered Nurse.

View pictures from the recognition ceremony

Using Scientific Discipline To Win Wars

When John Lewis explains that he’s a liaison officeholder amongst the Joint Warfare Analysis Center (JWAC), it’s slow to believe.  At a buff half-dozen feet, he has the physical presence that would for certain come upwards inwards handy during a deployment to Afghanistan. Yet, it is John’s advanced degrees inwards electrical technology scientific discipline that landed him inwards a warzone.  Back inwards Dahlgren, VA he is vague on the details of his undertaking – those are classified – exactly offers this guarded explanation: “We assistance state of war fighters solve really difficult problems using math, engineering, information together with intelligence.”  As a liaison officer, John says he translates technology scientific discipline “geek speak” into to a greater extent than manageable terminology for soldiers.  

While John won’t give away details well-nigh his assignments at JWAC, what he will tell y'all is how pleased he is amongst the didactics he received at Reynolds. “I’m a community college guy.  That’s how I started.  I took vocational classes inwards high school, together with enough of written report halls.  I didn’t conception on going to college, exactly my fourth dimension inwards the National Guard proved to me that I could produce difficult things.  I decided to enroll at J. Sarge, together with it was the best affair I could accept done.” 

Using his G.I. Bill, Pell grants, together with “every scholarship I could utilise for” John began on a dissimilar variety of adventure.  He credits the basic-level course of instruction offerings, pocket-sized cast sizes and, particularly, the involvement of the professors amongst much of his success.  “One of my professors told me that I had picked upwards electronics then good that I should visit becoming an engineer.” Which he did; afterward earning his associate’s aeroplane inwards ‘95, John transferred to Virginia Tech to earn his bachelor’s aeroplane inwards engineering.  “When I starting fourth dimension got to Tech, I was pretty nervous.  You know, could I compete amongst these Tech students? But, amongst what I’d learned at Reynolds, I was then good prepared, it was incredible.  I finished amongst a 3.97 GPA.  I mean value I had 1 B+ my entire time.  And, this is from mortal who had started at Reynolds taking remedial Algebra 1.”

Eventually, he would earn his master’s inwards engineering, exactly John tin nonetheless quote formulas he learned at the College inwards physician M.L. Foy’s physics class.  “She was 1 of the most thorough together with best professors I’ve e'er had inwards whatever academy I’ve attended. physician Foy taught concepts beyond the abstract.  These were existent globe examples nosotros learned.” Examples that he applies to the classified operations of JWAC:  “Ultimately, we’re using scientific discipline to win wars.”   

Students View Amongst Full General Assembly Lawmakers

(L-R, Shane Robertson, Zac Carroll, Kelly McIntosh,
Cheri Morrell, Ryan Harris too Angela Miller)

JSRCC students recently attended “Community College Day” at the Virginia General Assembly, sharing their Reynolds experiences too stories amongst a publish of lawmakers.
Louisa High School graduate Shane Robertson expressed to Senator Thomas Garrett, Jr. (R-22^nd District) that he is currently working towards his Automotive Technology  Associate Degree piece too working for an automotive dealership inwards Orange, Va.

“I intend it is of import for me to larn an associate degree,” noted Shane. “By earning an associate degree, it shows employers that I know how to job math, that I’ve passed courses inwards English linguistic communication too know how to job critical thinking too speaking inwards front end of groups. Those are of import skills.”

A woman raise of two, Angela Miller discussed amongst Delegate Peter Farrell (R-56^th District) that she hopes to transfer to the University of Richmond too larn a particular pedagogy teacher. “Reynolds has given me an chance I tin afford, every bit I accept the root steps toward my score to teach.”

Angela too Shane were joined past times swain students Zac Carroll, Ryan Harris too Kelly McIntosh.

Following the forenoon visits, the students walked to the Virginia State Capital where they toured the edifice that holds the nation’s oldest legislative body. During the full general assembly session, the grouping was introduced too welcomed past times Delegate John O’Bannon (R-73^rd District).