Talk:Virginia College

Working towards NPOV
In conjunction with Bearian I've edited this page to remove the perceived advertisement slant. I think it's getting there - though it wasn't all that blatant in the first place, compared to some I've seen! Not sure if we should keep the curriculum list, and also not sure about the external links, which are, after all to for-profit sites. What do others think? Smalljim 22:36, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I think's it's fair to have commercial, for-profit entities on external links. I shortened the curriculum list to cut out most of the red links and keep all the blue links, but such lists are fine for college and university web sites.  I, too, am concerned that an advertising tone does not make a NPOV.  The original article was probably cribbed from the college's website -- as noted on the history page.  I'll take another crack at it another day.  I should tell you folks that I have a potential conflict of interest, as I work for another proprietary college.  I am trying not to promote our sector of education, but Virginia College is neither a direct competitor nor my employer.   I should also alert you all that my college is a member of APC and ERCBEC.  See my user page at Bearian for more info.Bearian 23:32, 3 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Query to whomever: When does a link to a commercial site become spam as in {clear-spam} ? Bearian 16:12, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I changed the tag from advert to tone. Bearian (talk) 20:02, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Updates to page
Hi - I have a few suggested edits to the Virginia College page. For full disclosure, I am a contractor of Education Corporation of America, which owns Virginia College. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Main Section updates: Virginia College is an accredited for-profit post-secondary career college with more than 25 campuses located primarily in the southeastern United States. Virginia College also offers online degree programs. Virginia College awards certificates, diplomas, associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s degrees related to specific professional fields such as health and medical, information technology, culinary arts, cosmetology, business, office management and criminal justice. The college continually researches the job market in order to offer degree programs in areas where the most job growth is expected and offers small classes both at night and during the day taught by instructors with real-world experience.

Righthand Column Info Add Logo (found here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByMMbyRdFMn9NlFFQkF5T0F2R1E) Add Motto: Your Success Starts Here Change Owner to: Education Corporation of America Change # of Students to: Approx. 11,000 Change Location to: United States Add Campus: 27 campuses and Online

Ownership Change to: Virginia College is owned and operated by Education Corporation of America, a privately held corporation. ECA is a category leader in the post-secondary career college market with 72 locations in 16 states and current enrollment of over 30,000 students. ECA career college holdings include Brightwood College, Brightwood Career Institute, Ecotech Institute, Golf Academy of America, and Virginia College. Other holdings include the fully online New England College of Business.

Locations Add Greensboro location Add Baton Rouge, Greensboro, Greenville under Culinard Remove GAA locations

Curriculum Virginia College offers courses in health care, cosmetology, therapeutic massage, culinary arts, criminal justice, paralegal studies, information technology, and trades, including HVAC, truck driving and welding.

Katie style (talk) 17:41, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi there. I have reviewed the edit request, and implemented the following changes: added logo and motto, updated the number of students, and added the trades programs, making use of the citation offered. However, I decided not to implement some of the other changes requested, such as the ownership changes described above, which was due to some of the content there being openly promotional, and although present on college website(s) (or other related sources), unsuitable for Wikipedia. I have also not added the culinary programs courses - I could not find any mention of them in the citation offered.

Regards, VB00 (talk) 17:34, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

LOCATIONS: Fwiw, on 8/20/2022 my passenger spotted a “Virginia College” sign on Fairfax Christian School’s former campus in Fairfax County, VA, on W side of Hunter Mill Rd just N of Sunser Hikls Rd & VA267. Mailing address there was Vienna, VA 22182. AndersW (talk) 03:20, 21 August 2022 (UTC)