More than two years into the pandemic, community colleges and four-year institutions across the country face an imperative to ensure students from communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic can access, persist through and realize their higher education aspirations.
Wor-Wic Community College recently held a reception for employees who retired after many years of dedicated service to the college.
Wor-Wic Community College recently held its 20th annual golf tournament at the college’s Ocean Resorts Golf Club in Berlin. Proceeds from the tournament, nearly $55,000, benefit the college’s on-campus child development center.
Kelly Carey, director of continuing education and workforce development transportation for Wor-Wic Community College, has been elected to the board of directors of the National Association of Publicly Funded Truck Driving Schools (NAPFTDS).
After a lifetime of spending far too much time in hospitals and doctor’s offices, Caroline Wheeler of Fruitland couldn’t be blamed for avoiding them. Diagnosed with a rare medical condition at age 4 that led to a life-saving liver transplant when she was just 10, Wheeler instead embraced her insider knowledge.
Truck driving classes take place year-round, but there’s something students in the eight-week commercial truck driver training course could easily miss, depending on the weather: driving in snow or heavy rain. But that’s not a problem for commercial driver’s license (CDL) students at Wor-Wic, thanks to a new, high-tech simulator that gets students behind a virtual wheel to practice in all kinds of conditions.
Rick Shores of Delmar, Md., took a non- traditional path to his degree — a path that at one point put his life at risk — but thanks to his choices, Shores is now embarking on Salisbury University’s (SU) master in business administration program. On the way, at Wor- Wic, he found not only an educational starting point but also a family.
Kendall Beauchamp of Parsonsburg and John Todd of Salisbury recently became Wor-Wic’s first graduates in its STEM honors program at the 2022 commencement. Beauchamp and Todd completed lengthy capstone projects consisting of 90 hours of laboratory research to earn the distinction.
Anatomy and physiology class might be inextricably linked with frogs and the odor of formaldehyde. But now, students at Wor-Wic are reaping the benefit of a more accurate, and scent-free, technology, in the form of Anatomage tables.
During Wor-Wic Community College commencement ceremonies at the Wicomico Youth and Civic Center in Salisbury, Dr. James D. Fielder, Maryland’s secretary of Higher Education, encouraged the graduates to take on the challenges of leadership in a changing world.