Volunteer State Community College
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Volunteer State Community College is a publicly-supported two-year community college located in Gallatin, Tennessee and operated under the auspices of the Tennessee Board of Regents.
Vol State, as it is popularly known, serves the Nashville community as well as its home area of Gallatin, some 30 miles (48 km) to the northeast. The college must be cautious as it does so, lest it interefere with the court-ordered desegregation of historically-black Tennessee State University. Also, the former Nashville State Technical Insititute (now Nashville State Community College) has now been upgraded to full community college status with a mandate to serve the Nashville community, and all three institutions are operated by the same body, the Regents.
In total, Vol State serves 12 counties in northern Middle Tennessee: Clay, northeast Davidson, Jackson, Macon, Overton, Pickett, Putnam, Robertson, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale, and Wilson.
In Fall of 2005 more than 7,000 full and part-time students were registered and 935 were set to graduate during ceremonies in May of 2006, the largest graduating class ever at the school.
Volunteer State has five major divisions: Allied Health, Humanities, Business, Social Sciences and Education and Math and Science. Popular programs at the school include Radiologic Technology, Physical Therapist Assistant, Education, Pre-Nursing, Paralegal, Pre-Engineering and Communications. The college has a television studio and a recording studio. It offers a recording management program and classes in commercial music and songwriting. Many students also take University Studies programs which prepare them for transfer to 4-year colleges and universities
Degree Programs include:
Allied Health Dental Assistant Diagnostic Medical Sonography EMT - Paramedic Fire Science Technology Health Information Technology Ophthalmic Technician Physical Therapy Assistant Radiologic Technology Respiratory Care Sleep Diagnostic Technology
Business Division Accounting Banking Commercial Music Computer Information Systems Technology Hotel & Restaurant Management Logistics Management Management Marketing Office Management Technology Paralegal Studies Quality Management Technology
Humanities University Studies
Math & Science Industrial Technology
Social Science & Education Early Childhood Education Social Services
Regents Online Degree Program (RODP) Associate of Applied Science in Professional Studies: Concentration in Information Technology (CIS)
Student Life
Students can work on the weekly student newspaper, The Settler, or the award-winning student magazine, The Pioneer. Radio station WVCP also provides students chance to work at a broadcast radio station. There are a variety of student clubs and organizations. Student groups work to provide events on campus throughout the year. Theater students produce several plays each year and the Music Department puts on showcases each semester that feature student performers and original student works. The Music Department also produces a CD of student performers to sell at each showcase.
Vol State has two auxiliary campuses: one in Livingston, Tennessee, and the other at McGavock High School in Nashville. Both sites offer degree programs. The school also has learning sites at Hunter's Lane High School in Nashville and in Madison, Springfield, Macon County and Wilson County. Vol State also offers some third- and fourth-year level college courses through arrangements with other institutions.
Athletics
The athletic teams at Volunteer State Community College include Baseball, Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball, and Women's Fast Pitch Softball. The intercollegiate teams have been highly successful and nationally ranked. Vol State is a member of the Western Division of the Tennessee Junior and Community College Athletic Association. Vol State is also a member of the National Junior College Athletic Association Region VII.
The Voulnteer State Baseball team has been to the Junior College World Series Twice. (1994,1999) Led by Coach Kenny Thomas they held the number one ranking in the NJCAA during most of the 1998 season. Although they did not make a world series appearance that season.
[edit] April 7, 2006 Tornado
The college was damaged heavily in a tornado outbreak on April 7, 2006. Two buildings suffered direct hits from the twister, and reports from the college indicate that over 80 cars in the parking lots were damaged and destroyed. There were only minor injuries on campus. The Hal Reed Ramer Administration Building received major damage, including the office of the President. Noble Caudill Hall suffered perhaps the worst damage, as much of the second floor on the south side of the building collapsed, and a large section of roofing above WVCP radio and the Wemyss Auditorium was ripped off and/or collapsed inward. Caudill Hall has closed indefinitely until repairs are made. One report states the building will be repaired over the next 12-15 months. 11 classrooms had to be relocated due to damage and 72 faculty and staff offices were moved. The rest of the damaged rooms have been repaired and are now fully operational. Classes are now back in full swing and life on campus is returning to normal. Summer courses are being held in regular classrooms and some modular classrooms may be brought in to help with fall classes. Parking in also returning to normal now that Ramer parking lots have been re-opened. Volunteer State building coordinators and campus safety staff have been credited with helping to save lives on the day the tornado hit. They were honored in a ceremony at the school.
[edit] See also
- WVCP - campus radio station
[edit] External links
- http://www.volstate.edu/ Official site
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