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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
News Release Highlights: ·
Dr. John Capps selected as next president of Central Virginia Community
College in Lynchburg. ·
Dr. Capps is vice president of academic and student affairs at VWCC in
Roanoke. ·
He will assume his new post in March 2011. |
MEDIA CONTACTS: Jeffrey Kraus Assistant Vice Chancellor for Public Relations (804) 819-4949 |
John
Capps to Become President at
Central
Virginia Community College
RICHMOND
– Dr. John S.
Capps of Roanoke has been selected to become the next president of Central
Virginia Community College (CVCC) in Lynchburg, Virginia, announced Dr. Glenn
DuBois, chancellor of Virginia’s Community Colleges.
Capps
is vice president of academic and student affairs at Virginia Western Community
College in Roanoke, and recently served as interim president at Lord Fairfax
Community College while a presidential search was under way there. He will
assume his new post about March 1, 2011, according to DuBois.
“I’ve
worked with John during my entire tenure as chancellor of Virginia’s Community
Colleges,” DuBois said. “He is an outstanding administrator and I’m confident
he will do a terrific job at CVCC.”
“On
behalf of the college board and community, we feel a very robust and thorough
process yielded an excellent group of candidates,” said Martin F. Giudice,
chair of the college board at CVCC.
“After receiving excellent input from the college and community, we
believe this appointment will provide the leadership required to take CVCC
forward in the manner of excellence that we, as a community, were looking for
and have come to expect.”
“I’m
thrilled to have this opportunity,” Capps said. “CVCC enjoys an enviable
reputation for academic excellence, and its workforce development programs are
second to none. I am honored to count myself as the newest member of this
outstanding institution, and I look forward to serving the college community as
we work together to advance the mission of CVCC and meet the needs of Region
2000.”
Capps has served as vice president of academic
and student affairs at Virginia Western since 2002, after serving in a number
of leadership positions at that college, including chair and dean of the
division of humanities; director of distance learning; interim dean of the
divisions of health technology, natural sciences and mathematics; interim
director of development; and program head of the English Department. He began
at VWCC as an English instructor in 1978.
He holds bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral
degrees from Virginia Tech.
Capps will follow Dr. Darrell Staat as
president at CVCC. Staat left earlier this year to become chancellor of the
community and technical college system in South Carolina. Dr. Cynthia Bambara of Lord Fairfax Community
College has been serving as interim president at CVCC and will continue in that
position until Capps assumes his new post.
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About
Virginia’s Community Colleges: Created more than 40 years ago, Virginia’s
Community Colleges are 23 individual schools located on 40 campuses across the
Commonwealth. Nearly half a million students
take classes at one of Virginia’s Community Colleges. Together the colleges
enroll more than two-thirds of the total public undergraduate population in
Virginia. For more
information, please visit myfuture.vccs.edu.