The Southern Virginia Higher Education Center

Revitalizing Southern VA through educational access & innovation

Community-based

• 20+ year track record

• Early community recognition of nexus b/t education & economic development

• 2001 move to new facility, financed & equipped with no state monies

• 2006 state agency designation

• SCHEV Report recommendations expand role to program development & innovation

Collaborative

• Environment where rural citizens can get an education

• Facilities, technology, support services

• Nine educational partners

• From GED to PhD

• 2009 unduplicated headcount of 3124

• Students from 16 VA counties & 4 cities

• Degree programs – 82% Non-degree – 14% Dual enrollment – 4%

Tech driven

• Center for Nursing Excellence: CNA, ADN, MSN, Family Nurse Practitioner

• Advanced manufacturing labs configured in smart factory approach

• 21-station design-industry standard digital MAC lab

• Southern Virginia Educational Network (SVEN)

• Free WIFI and 200 station open computer labs

Innovative

• Business of Art & Design signature programming

• Modeled after VCU’s da Vinci Center & Georgia Institute of Technology

• Focused on Knowledge Economy creative & collaborative skills

• Holistic, project-based

• 2+2+2 educational pathway

• National juried competitions

• International component

Research & Development

• R&D Center of Advanced Manufacturing & Energy Efficiencies

• Big “D” little “R”

• CCAM & RR tie-in

• Smart Factory approach

• Blacksburg “toy”

• Wine barrel

• Scramjet

Impact of budget reductions on SVHEC2 0 0 8 2 0 0 9 2 0 1 0 TOTAL cumulative

3% 10% 10% 23%$43,004 $43,004 $43,004 $43,004

$194,166 $215,166 $215,166

$212,675 $212,675

$43,004 $237,170 $470,845 $470,845Impact of additional cuts

in 2011-12

Literacy Coordinator reduced to 10 hrs/wk

Literacy Coordinator funded by NGF-grants

Building owner forgave rent on new lab space

Eliminate 1 FT Operations position

Evening Student Support Specialist reduced to25 hrs/wk

CREED Program Coordinator eliminated

Eliminated all PT Student Support Specialist positions

Reduce operating hrs: no weekend/early a.m.

classes

Non-credit Coordinator position funded w/ tuition-generated NGF

Gave back 2 new positions: Program Coordinator & Marketing Specialist

Moved 1 FT IT position to Student Support

Reduce FT workweek (and salaries) to 36

hrs

Deferred purchase of Mobile Computer Lab for Workforce Services

25% job sharing of Student Support responsibilities by 2 FT positions in other departments

Eliminate Center for Nursing Excellence

Non-personnel operating expenses cut

Additional non-personnel operating expenses cut

Eliminate Business of Art & Design

Programming

Executive Director Search funded w/ NGF

Eliminate all Non-credit Programming

Questions?

Dr. Betty H. AdamsExecutive Director

bettyadams@svhed.org