Schools
- NCGAP: You’re in, but you’re not
The General Assembly needs to defer its deferred admissions program.
In a provision tucked into the state budget last year, legislators declared that 6-year graduation rates at our state’s public universities ... Read more - Eagle Connect houses Durham Tech students on NC Central campus DURHAM – Fourteen students at Durham Tech already have one foot on a university campus.
Literally.
When applicants fall just short of admission standards at NC Central University, NCCU doesn’t write them ... Read more
- Voters Approve $350 Million for NC Community Colleges Much-Needed Construction, Repair and Renovation to Begin at all 58 Colleges
RALEIGH (March 16, 2016) – North Carolina voters approved Tuesday’s $2 billion bond referendum with nearly two-thirds supporting the infrastructure ... Read more
- Connect NC and NC Community Colleges If voters approve on March 15, North Carolina’s community colleges plan to use proceeds from the Connect NC bond package to help students fill jobs in each community they serve.
The ... Read more
- Ralls “a tireless advocate” By Gary M. Green
President, Forsyth Technical Community College
WINSTON-SALEM – In 2008, North Carolina, and the entire country, entered the most difficult economic period since the Great Depression. The colleges of ... Read more
- “One of the most visionary and effective community-college leaders in the country.” BOONE – With word that NC Community College System President Scott Ralls will leave his post next fall to head a 75,000-student college in Virginia, the system’s former president says ... Read more
- Community Colleges the “Unsung Heroes” of NC Higher Ed, Bandwidth CEO says David Morken, Co-Founder and CEO of rapidly growing mobile phone provider Bandwidth, discusses community colleges as the “unsung heroes” of higher education in North Carolina.
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- Robert Ingram: NC Community College System “one of the best in the country.”
Former GlaxoSmithKline CEO and Chairman Robert Ingram feels that North Carolina Community College graduates are well-prepared for the state’s ever-growing pharmaceutical and biotechnology manufacturing job market.
Ingram explains that this was ... Read more
