Germanna's neighbor & and namesake presents a postquake workshop
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attending inauguration of UMW President Rick Hurley

Read a banned book.
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Germanna's All College Learning Day in the news:
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Germanna recognized as one of nation's top colleges in use of digital technology
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Explains a lot
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Time is the enemy for part-time students
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Germanna's All College Learning Day celebration in the news
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Germanna was recognized by e.Republic's Center for Digital Education for technology integration into college curriculum and campus life
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Thank you Chancellor Glenn DuBois for attending and speaking at Germanna's All College Learning Day in-service yesterday

Thank you GCC Board member & Foundation President Bruce Davis & Connie Kincheloe of the Foundation Bd for attending yesterday's in-service

Good news for Germanna and all of Virginia's community colleges
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Germanna is proud to partner for workforce development
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Detroit Tigers in playoffs. Detoit Lions 3-0 after comeback that didn't end in last minute collapse. Maybe the Mayan calendar business is right after all.

Vote for Mineral VA, the small town hit hard by the August earthquake.
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Everyday heroes at Germanna
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Germanna's Financial Aid Office has awarded 82%more awards compared to the whole last year with several months to go

Germanna's Financial Aid Office has received 68% more applications compared to the same point last year, a 256% increase since 2008

Welcome back Middle College students
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More on Germanna's recognition as military-friendly:
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Lunchtime, I met with students at the Stafford County Center and gave out free pizza---the pizza was popular.

More coverage on Germanna since the quake
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at its meeting yesterday, the Governing Board of the Germanna Educational Foundation voted unanimously on a resource development plan

Germanna is proud to be recognized as a military-friendly college. We strive daily to do right by our student veterans:
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attending meeting and reception of the State Council for Higher Education

Earthquake Recovery Status

There have been some questions after recent news articles about the status of the Dickinson Building at the Fredericksburg Campus. To reduce rumors and speculation, here are some bullets on the status as of September 19, 2011:

• The building is repairable.
• Estimates mentioned in the newspaper accounts of the Board meeting were based on experience at other institutions after similar disasters and were intended to give worst-case scenarios.
• The State has given initial expedited approval to contract with the firm that has designed the Phase III Building being constructed (Clark-Nexsen) and they will shortly begin detailed analysis and evaluation. Clark-Nexsen will take about a month to present a remediation plan. Final written approval is pending.
• Only after this plan will we have a clear idea of how long the repairs will take. We will announce this as soon as we know.
• We hope to get expedited approvals from the State for a construction company that specializes in such work. That is still pending and an answer here will help determine how long before work is started and thus finished.
• We hope to piggy back planned upgrades in Dickinson with the remediation to speed up our being able to fully move back in. These upgrades are part of the Building III project and will expand student services and student activities, create a small student lounge, and create a larger bookstore.
• Building III is on target to be ready for occupancy in the middle of the Spring semester. We are meeting now to determine a plan for what and when moves there, as well as a staged process of moving back into Dickinson. Again, we will announce the plan in outline as soon as we have firmer dates.
• As soon as leases are signed, we will post here and elsewhere the locations of services and programs moved off-site.
• Employees will receive updates in the electronic newsletter, Germane, available through Germanna Central our SharePoint site. Updates for faculty and staff will also be made during College Learning Day on September 27 at the Daniel Technology Center in Culpeper. Open Forums with the President have been held and will continue to be held---watch for announcements.

Please comment here with any questions and we will respond with clarifications as soon as possible. Please check back to this blog periodically as well.

My deepest thanks go out to all of Germanna's students, partners, faculty and staff for their patient understanding and collaboration during these difficult times.

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Factoid: The Fredericksburg Area Campus, which had the most damage, was the closest of our locations to the earthquake's epicenter at 27 miles. The Culpeper site, which has probably felt more aftershocks, was 31 miles from the epicenter. Our Locust Grove Campus is actually the farthest away from the epicenter at about 31.5 miles distance.

Germanna values its involvement in the Thomas Jefferson Partnership for Economc Deveopment
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Congratulations to Stafford's Don Newlin & thanks for your support for Germanna
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Germanna thanks Pam Gould of the Free Lance-Star for her excellent reporting
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The first session of the Germnna President's Leadership Academy Class of 2012---a great group

Germanna distributes ‘quake break’ T-shirts; Dickinson building reopening could take 12-18 months - Getting Schooled http://ping.fm/plVLu

Earthquake recovery reports at tHe Germanna College Board Meeting
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Germanna thanks the University of Mary Washington and President Rick Hurley
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Good deeds of service by Germanna alum, David Rao: http://ping.fm/HoVBA

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attending luncheon for foster care students in Germanna's Great Expectations program

walking the building at Germanna's Fredericksburg Campus

September 11
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Remembering
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We will not forget the day, or the courage of those who fought back
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Some good news for Culpeper
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Two of Germanna's best talk about how our college and students are recovering from the quake
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I am so proud of the faculty, staff and students---they have responded to our earthquake with flexibility, good humor and uncomon courtesy

walking the Locust Grove Campus---nurse students busy in the hall getting ready for check-offs, bookstore busy, spirits good

Germanna classes have restarted and Fredericksburg Campus building 2 is busy but mood positive

Thank you, Germanna students, for your patient understanding
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Germanna thanks all the sponsors & golfers
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Germanna thanks Orange Schools' Superintendent Bob Grimesey for his kind offer of support:
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at the Ray Glazebrook Memorial Golf Tournament for Germanna's Educational Foundation