2009 Fall Cornerstone Proof -- News Community Campuses

‘BLUE RAIDERS

FOR

LIFE’

Mountain Empire, Southwest Campuses Celebrate Graduate Classes The end of August was a time of celebration at two Lindsey Wilson College community campuses. A total of 20 graduate students from the Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, Va., and Southwest Community College in Richlands, Va., participated in those campuses’ first pinning ceremonies. Many of the graduates were also members of LWC’s first baccalaureate classes at the two community campuses. Eleven students from Southwest Community College were honored Aug. 20 for earning a master of education degree in counseling and human development, and then nine students from Mountain Empire Community College were honored on Aug. 21 for earning a master’s degree. Thanks to partnership between LWC and the two Virginia community colleges, the students earned a graduate degree while attending weekend classes in their home communities. Although Big Stone Gap and Richlands are more than 190 miles from the LWC A.P. White Campus in Columbia, Alumni Director Randy Burns reminded the 20 students who were pinned in August that they are “Blue Raiders for life.” Burns gave the graduates a “Blue Raider” wrist band to signify the bond they share with LWC’s more than 7,000 other alumni. “From the moment on, you are a Blue Raider for the rest of your life,” he said at Mountain Empire.

Graduate students at the Lindsey Wilson Big Stone Gap Community Campus pose for a class picture following their pinning ceremony.

ABOVE: Graduate students at the Lindsey Wilson Richlands Community Campus celebrate with Alumni Director Randy Burns ’93 (back row, left). BELOW: New LWC alumni display their “Blue Raider” wrist bands.

Pinnings on YouTube Watch the pinning ceremonies at the Southwest and Mountain Empire community campuses on the Lindsey Wilson YouTube Channel: ww.youtube.com/lwcpublicrelations. Search “Southwest” and “Mountain Empire.”

3 West Ky. Campuses Serve Region’s Needs

Students and faculty gather for the first night of classes at LWC’s Henderson Community Campus, Aug. 28 at Henderson (Ky.) Community College.

Students and faculty gather for the first night of classes at LWC’s Hopkinsville Community Campus, Aug. 28 at Hopkinsville (Ky.) Community College.

Students and faculty gather for the first night of classes at LWC’s Madisonville Community Campus, Aug. 28 at Madisonville (Ky.) Community College.

When the 2009-10 school year began, a Lindsey Wilson College education was more accessible than ever. In fact, it was available at 21 locations. In addition to offering a full complement of undergraduate and graduate classes on the A.P. White Campus in Columbia, Lindsey Wilson classes are now offered at 20 other locations in Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia. For ’09-10, five more community camCommunity Campuses puses were opened: In addition to the Danville, Ky., became LWC Scottsville the sixth campus in the Campus, LWC now Gateway Region; has 19 community Wytheville, Va., joined campuses: the four other commuAshland, Ky. nity campuses in the Southern Appalachian Big Stone Gap, Va. region; and Henderson, Cincinnati, Ohio Hopkinsville and Cumberland, Ky. Madisonville opened to Danville, Ky. create the Western Kentucky region. Hazard, Ky. Classes in the Henderson, Ky. Western Kentucky Hillsboro, Ohio region are offered at Hopkinsville, Ky. Henderson Community College, Hopkinsville Lexington, Ky. Community College Logan, W.Va. and Madisonville London, Ky. Community College. Louisville, Ky. All of the classes offered are LWC’s Madisonville, Ky. School of Professional Maysville, Ky. Counseling, which Prestonsburg, Ky. includes a bachelor of Richlands, Va. arts degree in human services and counseling Somerset, Ky. and a master of educaWytheville, Va. tion degree in counseling and human development. At the community campus locations, LWC classes are offered on Friday and Saturday. Students enroll in two LWC classes at a time, which meet for three weekends. If students enroll in the program full-time, they should be able to earn a bachelor’s degree in little more than a year and a master’s degree in just two years. “We are extremely excited to be working with the Kentucky Community and Technical College System and the Virginia Community College System to bring these opportunities to area residents,” said SPC Dean John Rigney. “This allows working students to maintain their busy schedules while still having time to attend class.”