Virginia’S Community College Students Brand Annual Pilgrimage To Patch Capital

“Every Day is Community College Day” is inwards full-swing at the General Assembly. Students from the nearly 2 dozen community colleges scattered only about Virginia descend on the province uppercase 2 together with sometimes iii days a calendar week to instruct acquainted amongst the legislative procedure together with part their personal experiences amongst lawmakers who stand upward for their colleges’ voting districts. 

Last Thursday, nigh iii dozen students from Reynolds, Eastern Shore together with Mountain Empire Community Colleges made the journeying to Richmond. 

One of those students – Ruxandra Zait (sounds similar “Zyte”) – has traveled further than most. Zait says she could barely verbalize English linguistic communication when she offset arrived inwards the U.S. after leaving her dwelling terra firma of Romania inwards 2012.  

“The professors at Reynolds were real understanding. I had many resources that helped me amend together with heighten my English linguistic communication skills. There mightiness live on some mistakes when I’m nervous. But I effort to instruct myself into it together with thus I don’t brand equally many mistakes equally I used to.”

Zait, who’s similar a shot 23, already has an associate’s flat from Reynolds. But she wants more. “I desire to go a systems work concern analyst. I’d likewise similar to tumble out my graduate studies together with peradventure a PhD program. Who knows?” 

For Zait, Reynolds has go family. She was effusive inwards her praise of the college, proverb the little class-sizes together with the private attending she’s received own got been enormously beneficial. 

That’s the same message she would deliver to Delegate Betsy Carr a brusk spell later, amongst a niggling extra emphasis on why Virginia’s Community Colleges are important. 

“They’re of import because they’re the offset pace inwards our academic career. They assistance us to prepare professionally together with equally leaders.”






A native of Richmond, Craig Butterworth is an award-winning broadcast journalist together with communications professional. He has worked equally a spokesperson, staff author together with editor for a diversity of non-profit together with for-profit organizations throughout the Richmond area.