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RVC Professor Awarded Grant to Preserve Rockford Education Desegregation Stories

Dr. Mathew Oakes has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grant for a two-year oral history, archival, and instructional project on the legal and community history of desegregation and education in Rockford. The $60,000 grant will fund his project, “Chronicles of Change: Archiving Stories of Desegregation in Rockford Public Schools, 1989-2002.”

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2023 GED Grad Seeks Self Improvement

Receiving her GED hasn't hit Grace Petrus just yet, but she's happy and excited to have the willpower to do it, and more importantly, she did it for herself.


2023 Certificate Student Gets a Second Chance

Angel Rivera's adolescent years saw a lot of mistakes & decisions that he says could have gotten him killed or thrown in prison.


RVC Business Department Announces Annual Merit Award Recipients

The Rock Valley College Business Division presented its annual merit awards to outstanding students on May 19, 2023. Each year, the business faculty honor outstanding graduates in the areas of office professional, business administration, and/or accounting.


2023 Sankofa Ceremony & Celebration

Each year since 2009, RVC has conducted a Sankofa Ceremony and Celebration. This year's ceremony was held on Friday, May 12, 2023, at the Stenstrom Center for Career Education. Sankofa is not a graduation; instead, like many other similar cultural celebrations, it is considered a rite of passage, a moment when a society or community recognizes that some of its members have reached a milestone and will move on to the next steps in their journeys.


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