Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College is a comprehensive community college located in a rural environment.  The College strives to fulfill current and future higher educational and vocation/technical needs of southern West Virginia, its service area and beyond.  Our College emphasizes student-oriented, transferable learning, enabling students to achieve work, career, and personal success.

Our College provides high-quality, affordable, student-friendly, and easily accessible educational services.  We are highly effective and flexible in responding to state and community demands, and adapting to a global socio-economic system.

Institutional Commitments

Southern exists to fulfill its mission.  To that end, the following institutional commitments are made:

1. To provide programs of study that can be effectively transferred to other institutions and applied toward the completion of a baccalaureate degree
2. To provide programs of study which prepare and/or upgrade students' skills in the occupation of their choice, especially those occupations which help meet the needs of the College's service district
3. To provide students with the services necessary to assist them in successfully realizing their educational goals
4. To provide developmental courses for students who enter under the "open door" admissions policy and who lack the necessary academic background;
5. To provide continuing education opportunities for individuals in the service district who are interested in personal, cultural, or occupational improvement;
6. To provide workforce training and retraining as a mechanism for economic development through partnerships with business, industry, labor, education, civic clubs and organizations, community leaders, and government; and
7. To provide activities which are culturally enriching and entertaining for the entire district, as well as for those enrolled at Southern.

Vision Statement

Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College will be the higher education leader in West Virginia and the region.  Southern will provide the leadership necessary to help West Virginia grow and prosper into the twenty-first century.  Southern will be the hub around which all education and training/retraining efforts will turn.  The College will act as the catalyst for economic development and change in the region.  Southern will establish proactive partnerships which include education, business, industry, labor, government, community and cultural organizations, as well as other leaders to achieve regional goals.  Southern will become a model of academic excellence, scholarship, creativity, innovation, and cooperation impacting the educational opportunities and economic growth of the region.

Reviewed and aproved by the
Board of Governors
October 19, 2006

Our Core Values

• Achieving excellence in education and service.
• Exhibiting integrity in all that we do.
• Collaborating and communicating actively with others.
• Being committed in word and deed.
• Imparting passion and compassion to our every task.
• Leading by encouragement and support of lifelong learning.
• Embracing change through bold actions.
• Being creative and innovative at all levels.
• Initiating opportunities for the community.
• Celebrating success.

Approved by the
Board of Governors
April 24, 2007