Schools
- Community Colleges: Vital work for North CaroliniansRALEIGH (July 13, 2022) – If you didn’t already, we hope our series on North Carolina’s community colleges helped you appreciate the many services these 58 colleges provide their communities ...Read more
- Central Piedmont: Bridge to CareersCHARLOTTE (June 30, 2022) – The Bank of America Bridge to Careers program at Central Piedmont Community College is an effort to connect Black and Hispanic/Latino students with high-demand careers ...Read more
- Bridge to Careers: ‘Anything that they need’CHARLOTTE (June 30, 2022) – The Bridge to Careers program at Central Piedmont Community College provides Black and Hispanic/Latino students tuition, fees, books and materials. But it provides a lot more, ...Read more
- Central Piedmont: So many health fieldsCHARLOTTE (June 30, 2022) – Central Piedmont Community College offers training in more than 20 health-care fields. There’s Nursing, of course, and nurses are in great demand. But Karen Summers, Dean of ...Read more
- Davidson-Davie: Health-care support jobsMOCKSVILLE (June 22, 2022) – The Davie campus of Davidson-Davie Community College sits not far from major health-care providers in the Piedmont Triad and Charlotte: Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, ...Read more
- Central Sterile Processing: Who cleans those instruments?MOCKSVILLE (June 22, 2022) – We don’t usually think about who prepares the instruments a surgeon uses – but they’re very important people. And situated as it is between major health ...Read more
- Wilkes: ‘Lifting a generation out of poverty’WILKESBORO (June 15, 2022) – Something remarkable is happening in Wilkes County. First, with a goal to lift a generation out of poverty, Wilkes Community College has dramatically improved completion rates ...Read more
- NC Tech Paths: Live. Train. Remain.WILKESBORO (June 15, 2022) – The nonprofit NC Tech Paths has a three-word slogan: “Live. Train. Remain.” “We’re not going to reach our goals for this community if we continue to ...Read more
- The Groundwork: A plan and philanthropic partnersWILKESBORO (June 15, 2022) – Wilkes Community College’s effort to connect graduates with the tech economy didn’t happen out of the blue – it took a plan. And it took ...Read more
- ‘Always a demand for truck drivers’MOCKSVILLE (June 1, 2022) — With the supply-chain delays we face these days, there’s never been a more important time to train truck drivers. “Even your automobile came to the dealership ...Read more