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Chancellor Glenn DuBois wants Virginia’s Community Colleges to be as diverse as the communities they serve.

And while that’s true on average for student enrollment — which is about one-third minority — when you look at the faculty, he says, “It falls far short.”

The Chancellor’s Graduate Student Fellowship has allowed students completing graduate work to teach in Virginia’s Community Colleges under the supervision of a mentor, if they have the requisite hours of course work completed.

Today, several participants of the program met to talk about their experiences and to support an expansion of the program providing even more focus on this area.

By reaching out even further into professional organizations and doctoral program students at Virginia’s top colleges and universities, Virginia’s Community Colleges hope to tap a pool of future faculty that will fall in love with the hands-on atmopshere of a community college — and come back to make it their career.

Posted by Susan Hayden