Virginia Western Community College

What Is The VCCA? - Why Should I Join?

What is the VCCA?

The Virginia Community Colleges Association (VCCA) is your professional organization. Membership is open to community college personnel, students, alumni, board members, and friends of the VCCS.

Why should I join the VCCA?

The Virginia Community Colleges Association serves as a conduit allowing us to network with each other and to keep abreast of changes in education. In all of the 23 Virginia community colleges, our primary function is the same - to educate those who walk through our doors. We perform this task with pride, because that is who we are. Our jobs and responsibilities are numerous, and we each have unique functions. However, we need each other to accomplish the mission and vision to which our colleges are dedicated.

We are fortunate to have the VCCA through which to educate ourselves. After all, our respective colleges are places of higher learning - we should not let our minds grow stagnant. Rejuvenation and continuing education are important contributors toward fulfillment in the workplace. We have many excellent opportunities through the VCCA, and you are encouraged to take an active role in your own personal and professional growth.

What is the Cost?
$15 Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, and Support Staff
$  5 Student
$  5 Associate

2011-12 Membership Application (Word)

Virginia Community Colleges Association
Information for Students

 

Students are invited to join the VCCA! Why is student support important?

The VCCA is the only state-wide Association that represents Virginia Community College System students, alumni, employees, and those who think Virginia's community colleges are important! The Association has many relevant goals that you may want to support:

1. To continue to promote community college education in Virginia and to work toward improving the
    quality of our programs

2. To offer the opportunity for students to participate in state-wide professional development programs
    and to network with other students and community college faculty, staff, and administrators across
    the Commonwealth of Virginia

3. To offer a forum for individual and group presentation of ideas, opinions, and issues and the
    opportunity to be heard

4. To engender an atmosphere of cooperation among students, faculty, and staff and to cultivate the
    opportunity to effect changes

5. To INVOLVE community college students, alumni, and personnel in ACTIVE support of the
    Association so that it may become an even more viable organization

Membership

VCCA Membership is coordinated through the VCCA Treasurer and the VCCA Membership Liaison. The College Contacts assist the Treasurer and Membership Liaison in conducting the annual membership drive in March of each year. Contacts at each institution forward the membership lists and dues to the VCCA Treasurer. When possible, the College Contact will coordinate payment of membership dues with the College Business Office to cut one check payable to the VCCA Treasurer (rather than individual checks from individual members).

A database is maintained by the VCCA Membership Liaison of members, date of membership, and classification of the membership by college. This membership list is available to college contacts upon request to the Membership Liaison.

Based on certified membership per institution, the VCCA Treasurer and the VCCA Membership Liaison determine the number of  voting delegates for each institution for credentials at the Assembly of Delegates for the annual VCCA convention.

Note:
Individual and institutional dues must be current at the time of the VCCA annual convention in order to provide voting credentials for all voting delegates to the convention.

The VCCA membership year is July 1 to June 30. Membership brochures and applications are available from the VCCA Membership Liaison ( see the listings of Executive Board Officers ) or click here for the online 2011-2012 Membership Application (Microsoft Word format, opens in new window).

 

Membership Dues Categories

Dues for each membership category are as follows:  

Student

*Associate*

Staff

Faculty Ranked Personnel

$ 5 per year

$5 per year

$15 per year

$15 per year

 

 

 

 

Institutional FTE Enrollment

Institutional Dues

0 - 500

$200

501 – 1,000

$300

1,001 – 2,000

$400

2,001 – 3,000

$500

3,001 – 5,000

$700

5,001 – 7,000

$800

7,001 – up

$900

 *Associate Membership*

Associate member status is extended to “friends of the Virginia Community College System” and at this time includes former students, member of Boards, spouses of members, other professional educators, and/or those (an individual or organization) who have an interest in the future of the VCCS and the VCCA.

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