Student Services
Counseling
The Counseling Center offers educational support services to enrolled students. These services help students to acquire skills and to access resources and information that are necessary for academic success. Trained counselors and advisors are available to help students establish their occupational and educational goals, and to identify and address obstacles to academic achievement. Advisement and counseling services include, but are not limited to:
Academic Advising
Counselors work with degree and non-degree seeking students to help them select courses and programs that meet their occupational and educational goals. Counselors also provide information and resources on transfer requirements of four-year colleges and universities.
Academic Support
Through course offerings, workshops, and advising sessions, students may learn how to manage time, study more effectively, and minimize test anxiety. Counselors can also refer students to appropriate professionals and community support services if personal problems are inhibiting the learning process.
Career Services
The Division of Student Services provides resources and services to assist students and graduates in carrying out decisions related to obtaining a rewarding career. Comprehensive career resources, advising sessions, and classroom presentations help students learn how to acquire self-knowledge, knowledge of careers and employers, transfer opportunities, and the lifelong ability to conduct a job search. Graduates and current students also are notified of job listings through postings on the BRCC website (www.brcc.edu), on the Weyers Cave campus and at the Harrisonburg and Augusta Centers. Students should contact the Coordinator of Career Services at extension 2237 for additional information.
College Preparedness Testing
Students who wish to enroll in a curriculum or in English or mathematics classes are required to take an adaptive, computerized, untimed test unless they are exempt. The testing helps to ensure that students either possess at the time of admission, or acquire through appropriate developmental studies, the basic skills of reading, writing and mathematics. Students may be required to meet minimum levels of reading proficiency in order to enroll in most credit-level courses. Students who have scores of 530/Reading, 530/Writing, and/or 520/Math on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or ACT scores of 22 or higher English/Reading/Math, or who have successfully completed developmental or college-level English and mathematics are exempt from taking all or portions of the College Preparedness Test.
Disability Services
The Office of Disability Services is part of the Blue Ridge Community College Counseling Center. Its mission is to provide disabled students with the support services needed to access the College and its programs. Any individual who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities and who has a record of such impairment is eligible for services. Relevant documentation of a disability is required in order to obtain requested services. Students must contact the Coordinator of Disability Services to be considered for any accommodation. Individual instructors do not grant accommodations.
Peer Tutoring
The College offers one-on-one and small group academic support to students.
The concept of students tutoring students has proven to be a successful,
enriching endeavor for participants. This service is coordinated through the
Student Activities coordinator and involves no cost for those who participate.
The College pays qualified tutors a competitive wage.
Applications to become a tutor can be obtained by contacting the Student
Activities coordinator at extension 2350.