Reynolds Community College Is Pleased To Denote That Jacqueline Gooden

Reynolds Gooden-Seay Chosen for VALOR Program

Reynolds Community College is pleased to denote that Jacqueline Gooden-Seay, Adjunct Faculty inwards the School of Math, Science & Engineering at Reynolds Community College, has been chosen every bit a fellow member of the Cohort IV grouping of the Virginia Agriculture Leaders Obtaining Results (VALOR) programme to cause down inwards September 2018.

The Virginia Agriculture Leaders Obtaining Results (VALOR) program, the commonwealth's premier agriculture-leadership grooming program, is housed at Virginia Tech inside the College of Agriculture as well as Life Sciences. VALOR is a two-year grooming programme that includes experiential travel, leadership discourse, as well as networking designed to create fellows to undertake leadership roles facilitating community problem-solving as well as promoting Virginia agriculture – communicating its realities, vigor, as well as needs – inwards forums in, as well as exterior of, the industry.

VALOR is 1 of virtually xl agricultural leadership programs active inwards the United States, Canada, Europe, as well as Australia. Agricultural leadership programs work a research-based experiential learning approach that builds professional person leadership skills inwards the context of agriculture. In add-on to on-the-ground agriculture, agricultural policy as well as communications are included inwards visits to the nation as well as national capitals. An international sense crowns each VALOR programme past times couching Virginia agriculture inwards the context of globe trade, cooperation, as well as global connectivity. 

Fellows come across every other calendar month for 2 years to train, network, as well as locomote throughout Virginia’s ix distinct agricultural regions. Professional as well as personal evolution themes for these seminars include agriculture merchandise as well as communicating alongside others, urban agriculture as well as national agriculture policy, squad edifice as well as collaboration, as well as communicating the industry, amidst others.

“Seminar content is a hybrid of ‘must keep’ content from previous years as well as novel experiences unique for each class. As a result, our entire grouping of electrical flow as well as past times VALOR fellows has a broader collective noesis of the bang-up diverseness as well as affect represented past times the many facets of Virginia agriculture,” said Seibel.

As they travel, VALOR fellows are hosted past times agricultural leaders who illustrate regional realities, challenges, as well as innovations on their household unit of measurement farms, dairies, livestock as well as hit operations, urban greenhouses, crop fields, angling boats, as well as forests.

Congratulations, Jacqueline.