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Alliance for Excellence Service Areas

The Alliance for Excellence is a non-profit minority recruitment and retention program which is jointly sponsored by the Community College Ministries and four regional Community Colleges. These colleges are Central Virginia Community College, Danville Community College, Patrick Henry Community College, and Virginia Western Community College.

Each member college has a director who is in charge of programming for the institution. These programs consist of activities to enhance the image of the institution in the eyes of the minority population in order to facilitate greater recruitment and retention. Current programs include an annual academic excellence recognition program, motivational seminars, church-based tutoring services, and Youth Alliance programs. 

The efforts of the program coordinator and director have been directed toward floundering area high school seniors, parents who seek to return to school, displaced workers from area industries, and members of area churches. Programming is also available to the general public.

Central Virginia Community College

"Education is the great equalizer, you must, in order to compete in a global society-- you must have an education to be competitive." Dr. Muriel Mickles VP of Academic and Student Affairs

The Alliance for Excellence Program at Central Virginia Community College seeks to enhance opportunities for African American students to compete in a global society.


Each year the Alliance celebrates the academic excellence of students with a 3.0 gpa or higher at the Annual Awards Banquet. This event typically features more than 300 students that include local high school seniors and CVCC scholars.

Danville Community College

A New Narrative on Race


In 2018, the Danville group of Alliance for Excellence visited the Center for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation at Duke University. This began a long affiliation of working with young people in the community to build bridges and repair a history of racism in the region.


Community members in Danville and the surrounding area started meeting monthly to discuss the “new narrative on race” and a youth movement is in the works as of August 2020.


Patrick Henry Community College

Making a Difference through Engagement


The Alliance for Excellence at Patrick Henry Community College engages students of all ages through partnerships and service.


The longstanding partnership with the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) has afforded community youths exposure to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) opportunities. These opportunities range from conducting research on disease prevalent in Henry County to building robots.










Virginia Western Community College

Strategic Partnerships


 "The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together can do extraordinary things."
Barack Obama


Extraordinary things are happening throughout the Roanoke Valley as the Alliance for Excellence works with three Virtual Learning Academy organizations that provide safe spaces for Roanoke City Public School students to learn.


In addition to providing school supplies to these sites, the Alliance and its community partners have joined forces with Scoony’s Seafood to provide lunches to these students.


This has been particularly significant as we understand the role that health and nutrition play in the ability to learn. Food insecurity is a reality for so many students throughout the Valley. Providing lunches that are both tasty and healthy go a long way in meeting their basic needs.

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