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Published by Bristol Herald Courier Posted: Thursday, June 11, 2015 4:45 pm | Updated: 10:42 pm, Sun Jun 14, 2015. Kaylan Brickey ABINGDON, Va. — Longtime director of the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, Dr. Rachel Fowlkes, will be hanging up her many hats she has worn throughout the last 24 years since the Center’s inception, […]
Cooking Along The Crooked Road, a culinary program at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, announced its 2015 summer class schedule. Taught by local chefs and accomplished cooks, these noncredit, hands-on enrichment classes are open to the public. Adult and youth classes are available and meet in the teaching kitchen at the Southwest Virginia Higher […]
Published by the Bristol Herald Courier Posted: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 12:15 am | Updated: 12:19 pm, Fri Jun 12, 2015. Posted on May 20, 2015 by Tammy Childress The Southwestern Virginia Technology Council (SWVTC) will present the SWVTC High Tech/Advanced Manufacturing Awards for 2015 at the Annual Awards Banquet and Gala June 4 at the […]
The Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center Board of Trustees will conduct its biannual meeting on Thursday, June 11 at 11 a.m. at the Higher Education Center, One Partnership Circle, Abingdon, Virginia. Persons wishing to address the Board must contact Kathy Hietala at 276-619-4346 no later than June 4 in order to be placed on the […]
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The Great Winter Soup Cook-Off is scheduled on Saturday, February 7, 2015 from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center as a fundraiser to support educational programs. The awards ceremony will begin at 2:30 p.m. Individuals, teams, and professionals are encouraged to participate by preparing a favorite soup(s) and entering […]
The College for Older Adults (COA) announces the winter term scheduled on January 20 – February 26, 2015. Classes are held on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays beginning at 10 a.m. with special classes and field trips offered on Mondays and Fridays. The program is open to individuals 50 years old and older. Tuition is $40.00 […]
Photographer Anna Kaarina Nenonen works in series that often span decades. Her current series, Romancing the Thoroughbred, is an in-depth study of equines initially inspired by Eadweard Muybridge’s studies of animal and human movement. It dwells on the very ontology of the horse, examines the horse as a mythical animal, symbol of power or status, […]
Cooking Along the Crooked Road is a culinary program at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center. The classes are taught by local chefs and accomplished cooks. These noncredit, hands-on enrichment, and stand-alone classes are open to the public. Adult and youth classes are available and meet in the culinary kitchen at the Southwest Virginia Higher […]
The Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center is hosting the ninth annual STEM Conference on Friday, November 21, 2014, for over 700 sixth-grade girls and their teachers from the counties of Washington , Smyth and Russell, and the City of Bristol. The purpose of the STEM Conference is to introduce sixth graders to careers in science, […]