DATE: Friday, July 25, 1997                 TAG: 9707240591

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BULLETIN BOARD

REGIONAL

It could pay for college-bound high-school students to visit private colleges next month. Literally.

The 24 members of the Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia are sponsoring their first series of free campus open houses and information sessions during Virginia Private College Week. From Aug. 4 through 8, 24 of the state's private schools will offer guided campus tours and programs on admissions, financial aid and curriculum each day at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Participants will receive ``passports'' that will be stamped at each college they visit. Those visiting four or more schools during the week can have application fees waived for up to three schools - applications that normally cost $25 or more.

Area institutions participating are Virginia Wesleyan College in Virginia Beach and Hampton University in Hampton.

For more information, call (540) 586-0606, or see the council's World Wide Web home page at (http://www.cs.rmc.edu/CICV), or call Virginia Wesleyan at 455-3208 or Hampton University at 727-5328.

VIRGINIA BEACH

The school division's Office of Adult and Continuing Education will hold its 12th annual GED recognition ceremony on Thursday, at 7:30 p.m. in the First Colonial High School auditorium. The ceremony recognizes individuals who have earned a GED certificate during the 1996-97 school year. The public is invited to attend.

Cheryl Peters has been named the division's new director of gifted education and magnet schools. She comes to the Beach from a similar post in the Rockford (Ill.) public schools.

Peters holds a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana, a master's degree from Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi, and a doctorate in education from the University of Houston.

She began her career as a teacher of speech and English before moving into administration. Peters has also taught at the college level and worked as an independent consultant. She is writing a book on the gifted minority child.

SUFFOLK

The Suffolk School Board will hold its annual retreat Aug. 4 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., to discuss its goals for the 1997-98 school year. A location will be announced later.

During the final two hours of the retreat the School Board will study updates to the school division's 10-year building plan.

For more information, call the board's clerk, JoAnne D. Miltier, at 925-5500.

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