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Product Design and Development
Digital Arts and Design
Hospitality and Tourism

The Southern Virginia Higher Education Center has developed a bold, proactive approach to the regional need for knowledge-economy workers trained in the fundamental skills of innovation, creativity, collaboration, problem solving, and critical thinking. The first program, Digital Art & Design, will be unlike anything else in the Commonwealth in its emphasis on the creation and command of new media technologies. The second, Product Design & Development, will feature a Research and Development Center for Advanced Manufacturing Technology and Energy Efficiencies. The third, Hospitality and Tourism , will leverage all of southern Virginia as a destination travel location. Each program will provide three key assets to southern Virginia. It will:

1. Train a large workforce in the fundamental skills needed in the knowledge economy;
2. Create an industry-education partnership that will uniquely prepare business and industry to be leaders in the manufacturing renaissance;
3. Prepare and poise the region to be a global leader in the emerging energy economy.