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Tamra Lipscomb of Lexington, former director of the Dabney S. Lancaster Community College Rockbridge Regional Center in Buena Vista and former director of DSLCC Technical Services, is returning to DSLCC as the Information Systems Technology (IST) Program Head, it was announced recently by Dr.

The Virginia Community College System and Chancellor Glenn DuBois have presented Carol O. and Morris Thomas Hudson of St. Augustine, FL, with the 15th Annual Chancellor’s Award for Leadership in Philanthropy. They were nominated for the award by the Dabney S. Lancaster Community College Educational Foundation Board.

RICHMOND —The State Board for Community Colleges, by a unanimous vote, elected to maintain the current in-state tuition and mandatory fees for Fall 2020.

Every April for the past several years, the Jackson River Governor’s School has hosted an exhibition - fondly known as the JRGS Science Fair - for students in Barbara Kolb’s research course, NAS-198-199, “Intro to Scientific Research,” to show off their projects. Typically, the JRGS Science Fair is held in the Moomaw Center on the Dabney S.

Alexis Ballard had no intention of staying home after she graduated from Covington High School in 2016. She had always thought about attending Radford University, which has a well-known program in occupational therapy.

DSLCC Cubby Closet Donation

Due to the main campus and Rockbridge Regional Centers being closed during the pandemic, Dabney S. Lancaster Community College recently donated the majority of the contents of the DSLCC Roadrunner Cubby Closet (the College's food pantry) and the contents of the snack machines on the Clifton Forge campus and the RRC to local area food pantries. 

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Dabney S. Lancaster Community College has redesigned SDV 100, College Success Skills, to include additional material on how to be successful as an online student.

The annual Summer Regional Governor’s School is switching gears this year and is offering an online three-week session on Cybersecurity, from June 15 through July 3, through Dabney S. Lancaster Community College. The deadline to apply is May 11.

The Dabney S. Lancaster Community College Local Board has reinstituted the annual Medallion of Merit Award and is currently accepting nominations.  The College stopped bestowing the award in 2012, but resumed the award last year and recognized Eddie Graham of Clifton Forge as the 2019 recipient.  

Rachael Garcia Thompson, who has been serving as Executive Director of the Dabney S. Lancaster Community College Educational Foundation and the Director of Institutional Advancement since 2014, will be moving into a new position at the College at the end of April.