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July 19, 2022

RVCC offers summer entrepreneurship program for high school students

This summer, River Valley Community College is helping high school students learn how to start a business and develop key skills for future success. The 5-day program runs July 25-29 at THEbusinessLAB at RVCC’s Lebanon Academic Center, 15 Hanover Street. The program is designed to provide a fast-paced, hands-on experience. Students will start with a business idea and work with local entrepreneurs and business champions to bring it forward.

Day 1: Define Your Business Idea & Identify Your Customer
Day 2: Understanding Your Customer’s Problem, Refining Your Solution & Investigating Your Competition
Day 3: Branding & Core Messages
Day 4: Show Me the Money: Revenues, Costs, & Profits
Day 5: Pitch Day!

The program is taught by Alison Chisolm, a seasoned entrepreneur who has founded four businesses and now directs the entrepreneurship program at River Valley Community College.

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Scholarship established for North Country nursing students

A new scholarship fund established at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation will support White Mountains Community College students pursuing careers in nursing. Named after longtime Berlin resident and community supporter Rod Blackburn, the Roderick H. Blackburn Nursing Scholarship Fund will award approximately $12,500 annually to support students enrolled in the Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA) and Nursing degree programs at White Mountains Community College.

WMCC, with a campus in Berlin and academic centers in Littleton and North Conway, offers pathways for those interested in the medical fields, including an associate degree in Nursing and an LNA program. The two-year Nursing degree program prepares students for employment as a Registered Nurse providing comprehensive nursing care in acute, long-term, ambulatory, mental health, and other settings.

The LNA workforce development program is a 120-hour professional training program that prepares students to provide patient care in different healthcare settings, under the guidance and supervision of a Registered Nurse. The LNA program can lead to Licensed Practical Nurse and RN pathways.

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Alumni Spotlight: GBCC sets bioengineers on pathway to solve clinical problems

Two Great Bay Community College alumni are breaking barriers in bioengineering. Great Bay’s bioengineering degree is part of a life sciences program that includes degree offerings in biotechnology and biological science. These programs serve as a foundation for work in drug development, regenerative medicine and clinical trials and testing.

Natives of the Seacoast region, Ellen Blackwell and Luciana Custer began their educational journeys at Great Bay Community College. While affordability, convenience and small class sizes drew them to the college, their experiences at GBCC put them on pathways at the cutting edge of the bioengineering field.

This summer, Ellen began a six-month co-op at Bristol Myers Squibb in Devens, Massachusetts. She is considering an accelerated master’s program after graduation from UNH and would like to focus her career in biopharmaceuticals.

Luciana is currently in the first year of a PhD program at the University of Southern California and was awarded several fellowships totaling $138,000. Their initial work involves developing a microscope-integrated instrument that may soon be used to study the role of electrical signaling in the migration of glioblastoma, a very aggressive brain cancer.

Rubinstein: Keeping postsecondary education within reach brings individual and public good

In a recent op-ed, CCSNH Chancellor Mark Rubinstein highlighted the impact of a postsecondary education and the critical role state support plays in keeping college in New Hampshire affordable for students and families. An excerpt:

“Over the past decade…the tuition rate for New Hampshire residents that the Community College System of New Hampshire charges has increased by less than 2.5 percent. That’s not 2.5 percent annually, but 2.5 percent total, over more than a decade. Accounting for inflation, even during the period of low inflation that existed before the current surge, the inflation-adjusted cost of CCSNH’s tuition for New Hampshire residents has actually fallen by about 25 percent. Across that span of time, students have benefited from the opportunities that CCSNH offers, and in turn, the state and its communities have benefited from the work of our graduates in a wide range of enterprises that each of us undoubtedly relies upon regularly, from healthcare to technology to skilled trades to business services and more.”

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The Community College System of NH is NH's statewide system of community colleges offering associate degree and certificate programs, professional training, transfer pathways to four-year degrees, and dual-credit partnerships with NH high schools. The System’s colleges are Great Bay Community College in Portsmouth and Rochester; Lakes Region Community College in Laconia; Manchester Community College; Nashua Community College; NHTI – Concord’s Community College; River Valley Community College in Claremont, Keene and Lebanon; and White Mountains Community College in Berlin, Littleton and North Conway.

RVCC offers summer entrepreneurship program for high school studen﻿ts

Scholarship established for North Country nursing students

Alumni Spotlight: GBCC sets bioengineers on pathway to solve clinical problems

RVCC offers summer entrepreneurship program for high school students