Meet Donald Cooper -One of Ten
Valley Proteins Fellows Program Recipients
Donald Cooper is 1 of 10. Of the to a greater extent than than 250,000 students served past times the Virginia Community College System, he was 1 of exclusively 10 selected every bit a Valley Proteins Fellow. That’s impressive. And fifty-fifty to a greater extent than impressive, this is the minute twelvemonth inwards a row a Reynolds pupil has been chosen for this prestigious program.
“I am really grateful for the honor. I was upwards against a lot of candidates together with the application procedure was a chip intimidating,” says Cooper. “Reynolds provided me amongst the tools together with the opportunities, similar the Valley Proteins program, to larn an education.” The scholarship, combined amongst professional person development, travel, together with cultural opportunities, has an gauge value of $15,000.
The heart together with soul mission of the Valley Proteins Fellows Program is to assist promising, second-year students at Virginia’s community colleges pursue their academic goals together with strengthen their leadership skills. In improver to receiving amount tuition, majority expenses together with fees, the Fellows participate inwards a unique curriculum of intellectual together with cultural activities. The Fellows also participate inwards eighty hours of community service during the academic twelvemonth to hone their leadership abilities together with educate a rigid foundation for futurity success, patch maintaining a required minimum 3.5 degree indicate average.
“Receiving this fellowship has alleviated to a greater extent than or less of the fiscal stress I was feeling close how to pay for my education. And what’s priceless is that it has already given me the incredible chance to larn to the governor’s mansion together with encounter Governor Terry McAuliffe. I shook the governor’s paw together with thanked him for supporting the Virginia Community College System.”
The fellows computer program is made possible through the generous back upwards of Valley Proteins, Inc. The Winchester-based companionship has been inwards the rendering line organisation for to a greater extent than than lx years together with currently operates plants inwards Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, together with Texas. The management of Valley Proteins is committed to outstanding corporate citizenship, first-class client service, technological invention together with back upwards for the community college mission.
President of Valley Proteins, Inc. Gerald Smith, Jr., said, “My blood brother together with I are pleased to back upwards the Valley Proteins Fellows computer program because it provides us amongst the chance to educate a to a greater extent than educated together with competitive Virginia.”
For a pupil who readily admits exclusively a few years agone his goals weren’t thus lofty, Cooper has come upwards a long agency together with gives Reynolds the credit for his growth. He plans to graduate from Reynolds inwards May 2018 every bit a Business together with Social Science major, earlier continuing his pedagogy inwards economics, finance or police describe at the University of Virginia, University of Richmond, or William together with Mary. Cooper says, “I’d similar to hold upwards the somebody who shows others that opportunities are out at that topographic point together with waiting if exclusively they volition position forth the endeavor to pursue them.”
“The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education is dedicated to expanding opportunities past times leveraging partnerships,” said Glenn DuBois, chancellor of Virginia Community College System. “This computer program is a dandy event of the synergy that comes from joining together employers that are vested inwards the lineament of tomorrow’s Virginia workforce together with the community colleges that nurture it every day.”
Serving over 18,000 students annually, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College is the youngest together with 3rd largest of 23 community colleges inwards Virginia. The College operates 3 campuses serving residents inwards the City of Richmond together with the counties of Henrico, Hanover, Goochland, Powhatan together with Louisa.
