Randall Stamper

Randy Stamper is the associate vice chancellor for career education and workforce programs with the Virginia Community College System. He leads the administration and strategic planning for a variety of programs and initiatives, including postsecondary Perkins, credit, and noncredit workforce training and credentialing; economic development projects; and multiple publicly and privately funded special initiatives. He was part of the team that led the planning and implementation of the FastForwardVA program, which has changed the face of community college workforce development programming in Virginia. He also frequently consults with state and federal elected officials on workforce issues. Stamper serves on a variety of commissions and boards within Virginia’s workforce development system, as well as the National Skills Coalition’s leadership council.

He began his career in workforce development at The Literacy Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and then moved to the Virginia Department of Education’s Office of Adult Education and Literacy, where he served as a specialist and later state director of adult education. Stamper holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature and rhetoric from Ball State University (IN) and a master’s degree in English literature from VCU.