By Jane StancillExecutive Director of CommunicationsNC Community College System RALEIGH (August 14, 2019) – This week, the NC Community College System launches its first statewide marketing campaign, communicating with one voice about the value of community colleges. Funded initially with private support from the NC Community Colleges Foundation and the John M. Belk Endowment, the… READ MORE
Community Colleges: When graduates make as much as instructors…
RALEIGH – Community colleges are critically important to North Carolina’s workforce. At a time when 67 percent of jobs in North Carolina are projected to require education beyond high school by 2020,1 community colleges offer a more-affordable path to a degree, job-specific training and training for the trades. And North Carolinians love their community colleges… READ MORE
Woodson: Seamless transfer from community college
RALEIGH – All 16 universities in the University of North Carolina System are trying to smooth transfers from North Carolina’s community colleges. “All of us are working hard on seamless transfers from the Community College System,” NC State University Chancellor Randy Woodson says in the accompanying video. NC State works in a number of ways… READ MORE
Woodson: You can reinvent yourself at community college
RALEIGH – If school wasn’t for you the first time around, or if a four-year university seems too expensive, there are still ways to make it, says Chancellor Randy Woodson of NC State University. “One of the great things about America is that you’re not defined by a test score in the 8th grade –… READ MORE
N.C. A&T’s partnerships with community colleges
GREENSBORO – Like many universities, North Carolina A&T State University is seeing increasing numbers of students choose to start at a community college, then transfer to N.C. A&T. In the accompanying video, Chancellor Harold L. Martin Sr. says Guilford Technical Community College is one of N.C. A&T’s biggest partners; the university also recently announced a… READ MORE
Video: Governor Roy Cooper – Free Community College
Community colleges’ agenda: Workforce training, faculty salaries
RALEIGH – North Carolina community college leaders unveiled their 2019 legislative agenda this week, focusing on investments to improve workforce development. These are worthy requests that represent a solid, forward-looking plan. We hope the NC General Assembly will heed them. The agenda, announced by the NC Community College System, NC Association of Community College Presidents… READ MORE
Community Colleges: Not keeping up
RALEIGH – North Carolina’s community colleges are loved by their communities – 58 colleges throughout the state, within a 30-minute drive of 95% of North Carolinians. And they are a critical link in North Carolina’s workforce and economic development. Enrollment tends to jump at community colleges during recessions as workers seek to improve and update their… READ MORE
Hans: Maintaining community college access ‘a great thing’
RALEIGH – As more and more communities recognize the necessity of education beyond high school, more and more are trying to make that education accessible by offering tuition-free community college. Tennessee led the way with Tennessee Promise – a last-dollar scholarship that covers the cost of community-college tuition and fees that aren’t covered by Pell Grants,… READ MORE
Video: Dr. Jeff Cox – Challenges of NC Community College Funding
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