Category: TVCC

Press release

Around 50 students representing 26 area school districts visited the Trinity Valley Community College Athens campus last Saturday to participate in the Leaders of Tomorrow Conference presented by Phi Theta Kappa.

Each student was selected to participate based on their exhibition of leadership qualities in the classroom, on the athletic field or in the community. A number of the students represented their local chapters of student government or the National Honors Society. Continue reading “‘Leaders of Tomorrow’ Honored at TVCC Conference”

By Jayson Larson/TVCC Public Information

Shelley Sparks knows what a dead end looks like.

It’s a string of demoralizing minimum-wage jobs with little hope of a raise in pay or position. The hours are long and the labor is physically and mentally exhausting. Education and the prospect of advancement are lean.

But Sparks, a Mabank resident, also knows what hope looks like. She began to recognize it in the classroom at Trinity Valley Community College as she studied in the Medical/Nursing Assistant program through the Community Services and Workforce Education departments.

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“My life has changed in so many ways that it almost seems unreal when I look back to how things were,” said Sparks, a medical assistant at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Kaufman. “I am now making double what I was making only a few years ago.” Continue reading “Education Opens Doors for TVCC Student in Medical/Nursing Assistant Program”