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VGCC and Chambers team up for second “Business & Music After Hours”

For the second consecutive year, Vance-Granville Community College is partnering with the Chamber of Commerce of Warren County and the Lake Gaston Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Center for an event that brings local businesses together while also providing entertainment and cultural enrichment for the community. The “Business & Music After Hours” event will combine  Read More

VGCC offers small business seminar on Hiring, Retention

Vance-Granville Community College’s Small Business Center will offer a free seminar, entitled “How to Hire and Retain Good Employees,” from 9 a.m. until noon on Thursday, March 8 in room 7107 of Building 7 on the college’s main campus in Vance County.   The seminar will help business owners and managers match the right workers  Read More

VGCC offers Customer Service Seminar

Vance-Granville Community College’s Small Business Center will present a free seminar, “Super Customer Service,” on Tuesday, March 6. The seminar will be held from 9 a.m. until noon in room 7107 of Building 7 on the college’s main campus in Vance County.   Mike Collins, who is president of The Perfect Workday Company in Raleigh  Read More

“Extreme” money-saving tips offered at Coupon 101 workshop (at Franklin Campus Feb. 21)

Savvy shoppers across the country are using increasingly sophisticated coupon techniques, with numerous web sites and television programs devoted to helping consumers save money. In that spirit, a new Vance-Granville Community College workshop will provide local cost-conscious residents with various couponing strategies that could reduce a family’s grocery expenses by as much as 80 percent.  Read More

VGCC offers Small Business Seminar on getting Organized

Vance-Granville Community College’s Small Business Center will present a free seminar that will help business owners, managers and other area residents to improve their organizational skills with an eye toward saving time and money. The seminar, entitled “Getting and Staying Organized,” will be held on Tuesday, March 6 from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. in  Read More

VGCC students hold musical fundraiser

The Vance-Granville Community College chapter of the Phi Beta Lambda business student organization will hold a fundraiser concert with a “retro” theme on Saturday, Feb. 25 at 3 p.m. in the Civic Center on the college’s main campus in Vance County. “Back in the Day: A Musical Tribute to The Good Old Days” will feature  Read More

Nurse Aide courses scheduled at VGCC Main Campus

Vance-Granville Community College is now registering students for the Introduction to Nurse Aide and Nurse Aide Level I (CNA I) courses, which are scheduled to start soon at the college’s Main Campus in Vance County.   The “Introduction to Nurse Aide/Human Resources Development” course is a prerequisite to Nurse Aide Level I and will be  Read More

Warren Early College students honored for “Earning the Green”

Warren County Schools and Vance-Granville Community College held a special ceremony on Jan. 19 to recognize the achievements of students at Warren Early College High School (WECHS). The first-ever event, held in the Civic Center on VGCC’s Main Campus, was entitled the “Earning the Green” celebration. The honorees of the evening were 18 WECHS students  Read More

Grissom retires from VGCC after more than 20 years

Susan (“Sue”) Wooten Grissom, a resident of Creedmoor and Yanceyville, recently retired as Director of Basic Skills at Vance-Granville Community College. Grissom’s family joined her colleagues at a retirement reception held in her honor on Jan. 19 at the college’s main campus. She first joined VGCC on a part-time basis in 1989 helping to coordinate  Read More

VGCC Health Sciences programs receive “boot camp” grant

Vance-Granville Community College has been awarded a grant worth $8,260 from the North Carolina Community College System to hold a “boot camp” that will encourage young people to prepare for careers in health-care. From among 13 applicants, Health Sciences programs at VGCC and five other colleges were selected by the State Board of Community Colleges  Read More