Dr Holsworth,
I agree with your article and believe that only through the utilization of our community college system can we achieve the goals advocated by Bob McDonnell and the Business Higher Education Council.
For example, the Commonwealth could increase the ratio of state dollars allocated to Virginia community colleges instead of the four year universities which [...]

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Listen up, boys and girls.  Here’s the deal: in any given, two-candidate race both candidates begin with 30 percent of the vote nailed down, locked up, on ice, in the bag.  Both candidates begin with 30.  These are the glassy-eyed ideologues, the true believers, the folks who will gulp the Kool-Aid.  They are the straight [...]

The Virginia Business- Higher Education Council announced on Monday the formation of “Grow ByDegrees,” a bipartisan initiative that will campaign for “high impact investments and innovations in Virginia’s higher education system that will help secure Virginia’s economic future and create real jobs.”
In his remarks announcing the formation of the coalition, Heywood Fralin, the chair of the [...]

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Hampton [...]

Bob McDonnell punted on whether he would sign a “no taxes pledge” last week and the Washington Times‘ editorial board slammed him for his equivocation. While fiscal conservatives fretted about his refusal to sign the tax pledge, it is his response that is more disconcerting for it threatens to devalue the most important piece of political [...]

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1. McDonnell Doesn’t Take the Pledge
Not to raise taxes. Asked by the Washington Times whether he would take a no-tax pledge, the GOP candidate for Governor demurred, citing the proliferation of groups with pledges that come knocking at a candidate’s door these days. Amazed by McDonnell’s response the W. Times sent a videographer out to [...]

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