• The Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence is a new initiative acknowledging one teaching faculty member who distinctly represents the teaching excellence found at VCCS college(s). The award provides the recipient with a VCCS medallion suitable for wearing with academic regalia and $5,000.
  
• The SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Awards recognize excellence in teaching, research and service among the faculties of Virginia’s public and private colleges and universities. The VCCS is proud of the increasing numbers of community college faculty receive this award. For more information click on the page link to the left or go to http://www.schev.edu/AdminFaculty/OFAprogramIndex.asp.

• Technology in Education Awards are given in conjunction with the New Horizons conference in the spring of every year. 

Congratulations to the VCCS 2007 Technology in Education awardees:

Creation and/or Best Use of Shared Content/Learning Objects in Support of Traditional Classroom and Distance Learning Environment.

The Virtual Hospital: A New World of Independent Thinking, Leading and Learning. Patricia Lisk and Karen Mittura, Germanna Community College

Institutional Technology

Tutoring Services Student Data System. Ann Lyons, Daniel Buhrman, and Eric Carr, Germanna Community College

Virtual Learning Environment

Certificate For Professional Telephone Call Center Management: a New Beginning for Disabled veterans. Robert Vaughn and John Wells. Northern Virginia Community College-WDCE

Technology in  Education Leadership

Game Technology, Robotics, Teamwork & Articulation to RU. Carlotta Eaton, Jeff Levy, Sandra Daniels, and Shawn Lupoli, New River Community College, Elizabeth Creamer, VCCS and Valerie Bird, Wytheville Community College

Best in Show (This was a new category created for New Horizons 2007.)

The Virtual Hospital: A New World of Independent Thinking, Leading and Learning. Patricia Lisk and Karen Mittura, Germanna Community College