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The Virginia State Board for Community Colleges unanimously approved a new name for a college at its regular meeting today. The institution established in the early 1960s and named Dabney S. Lancaster Community College will become Mountain Gateway Community College.

The Local Board for Dabney S. Lancaster Community College accepted the 25-member Task Force recommendation of “Mountain Gateway Community College” as the new name to replace Dabney S. Lancaster. During the Local Board meeting Monday on the Clifton Forge campus, Dr. John Rainone, president of DSLCC reviewed the Task Force’s process of selecting the three names from a pool of over 430 names.

The Dabney S. Lancaster Community College Renaming Task Force will recommend their pick for the College’s new name during the DSLCC Local Board’s regular meeting on Monday, October 18. The meeting begins at 4:30 pm in Moomaw Center on the Clifton Forge campus. The public is invited to attend.

Three names are being considered as Dabney S. Lancaster Community College’s Renaming Taskforce continues the work of choosing a new name for the college.

Two non-credit health care courses, Dental Assisting and Pharmacy Technician, both offered through Dabney S. Lancaster Community College Workforce Solutions and Community Education, will begin October 4 on the DSLCC Clifton Forge campus.

Dr. John Rainone, President of Dabney S.

Several courses offered by Dabney S. Lancaster Community College are starting later this fall and there is still time to enroll in them, according to Dr. Benjamin Worth, Vice President for Academic Affairs.

A new Diesel Mechanic program, which will prepare students to inspect, repair and overhaul buses and trucks, as well as to maintain and repair diesel engines, is being