Podcasts

S3E4: Life After Your Degree: A Career with a Calling

So far this season, we’ve talked a lot about how to make the already affordable community college experience, even more affordable. In our last two episodes of this season, we’ll shift gears and talk about how to make the...

S3E3: Demystifying the Financial Aid Process

While Virginia’s Community Colleges are an incredible value for education when compared to the cost of most four-year universities, sometimes students need additional help, or simply want to ensure that they’re paying as little as possible. That’s where financial...

S3E2: How to Earn Your Degree Without the Debt

We’ve established that community colleges are the smart choice for a variety of reasons, including lower tuition costs. G3 is a last-dollar tuition assistance program for in-demand career fields at any of Virginia’s Community Colleges. That means for students...

S3E1: Why Community College is the Smart Path Forward

Welcome to season three of Inside Virginia’s Community Colleges. During this podcast series we spent season one talking about remote learning at Virginia’s Community Colleges, and season two discussing the community college system’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In season...

S2E5: Pandemic Pathways

Over the last several episodes of this podcast we’ve talked about a lot of the changes that have happened at Virginia’s Community Colleges and the rest of the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  But how have the students...

S2E4: Learning During A Pandemic

As we all know, teaching and learning during a pandemic have both been a challenge. Most classes in Virginia’s Community Colleges converted to remote learning in March of 2020, and those that couldn’t move online included very strict rules...

S2E3: Data Mining and Getting Ahead in the Workplace

During the past year, Virginia’s Community Colleges has used every tool at its disposal to navigate the COVID-19 crisis. From changing the way classes are taught to offering Wi-Fi in school parking lots, each tactic had one thing in...

S2E2: A Year of Change

One of the biggest constants during the COVID-19 pandemic has been change.  At work and at home, we have all made modifications in how we live, to try to stay healthy.  Those changes have been obvious in higher education,...

S2E1: Pandemic Pivots

Welcome to season two of Inside Virginia’s Community Colleges, a podcast that gives you a behind-the-scenes look at community college higher education in the commonwealth and the initiatives helping individuals reach their goals. In this season of the podcast, we...

S1E6: Success Stories

During each of the previous episodes in this season of Inside Virginia’s Community Colleges, we’ve heard from educators, advisors, and students on how remote learning works and how to get the most out of it. In this episode, we...