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		<title>Two-year colleges welcome more aid: Virginia Western Community College says enrollment could top 10,000 this year</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Robert Sandel has seen enrollment at Virginia Western Community College shoot through the roof while his budget is getting cut. Space has gotten so tight that the president of the Roanoke school has had to dig up green space to provide more parking spots. &#8220;It&#8217;s almost silly,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m a green-space guy, and here [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Robert Sandel has seen enrollment at Virginia Western Community College shoot through the roof while his budget is getting cut. Space has gotten so tight that the president of the Roanoke school has had to dig up green space to provide more parking spots. &#8220;It&#8217;s almost silly,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m a green-space guy, and here [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>HB1599: Passes the House floor unanimously</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, the House of Delegates unanimously passed HB1599 sponsored by Del. Phil Hamilton and endorsed by Virginia21.  This bill will expand access to an existing grant that provides affordability and accessibility to special needs and foster care students who are attending a Virginia community college.  The legislation changes the current eligibility requirement from 12 credit [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Big Step, HB1599 Passes Subcommittee,</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the House Higher Education subcommittee unanimously passed HB1599 sponsored by Del. Phil Hamilton and endorsed by Virginia21.  This bill seeks to expand access to an existing grant that provides affordability and accessibility to special needs and foster care students who are attending a Virginia community college.  The legislation changes the current eligibility requirement from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Adequate Funding ≠ Top Colleges, According to the General Assembly</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Editorial from the Daily Press What a deal; From its top colleges, Virginia gets a lot more than it pays for January 21, 2009 John Casteen, Taylor Reveley and Charles Steger should send someone down to the mail rooms at their respective universities, to see if they got anything from Richmond. They should, and it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>UVA #1 and W&#038;M #3 in the best valued schools of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY As college admission deadlines wind down and families submit financial aid applications for next fall, freshmen in 2009 will be the first to start college clearly in the throes of the recession. What this will mean for students and colleges is just beginning to be understood. But one thing is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>EAC Awards Grants to Swell Ranks of College Poll Workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON- The U.S. Election Assistance Commission will award $750,000 to 27 colleges and nonprofit organizations from 18 states to recruit students to serve as poll workers during the November presidential election. The EAC estimates roughly 8,800 college students will become poll workers as a result of the grants, known as the Help America Vote College [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Virginia 21 gets a new boss. (From the daily press)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(original posting in the daily press is here) The Shad Plank congratulates Steven Jones, who has been named executive director of Virginia21, a group that lobbies the General Assembly on behalf of the college crowd. Jones joined the group as its deputy director in 2006. He will oversee all aspects of the organization, including fund-raising, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Momentum for Redistricting</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Senate Unanimously Passes 2008 Two-Year College Transfer Grant!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Virginia21 and Senator Stosch team up in support of higher education. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, January 31, 2008 RICHMOND- Today the Senate of Virginia unanimously passed SB148, which provided clarifications to the Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program created in 2007 (SB749-Stosch, HB1681-Callahan).  The transfer grant program is designed to help qualified students who graduate with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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