WINSTON-SALEM (Feb. 28, 2018) – NC House Speaker Tim Moore voiced broad support for public education at a special gathering this week. “When it comes to our state budget, education is ...

DOBSON – David Shockley has felt it himself. He’s felt the stigma, he says in the accompanying video, that going to community college is somehow less than being a student at ...

DOBSON – There’s a reason they’re called community colleges. North Carolinians embrace their community colleges in both big ways and small. “We have had individuals in the community that just are always ...

DOBSON – There’s little doubt there are jobs waiting for nursing students. “Demand is huge,” Lory Puckett, a nursing instructor at Surry Community College, declares in the accompanying video. “The demand in ...

DOBSON – The sea of letters can seem baffling – LPN, RN, FNP, CMA…. “Whenever you go into an office, you’re going to see a lot of different faces, and not ...

DOBSON – High demand usually means high pay – and depending on their skills and experience, some nurses enjoy very comfortable wages. A Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) with a one-year degree ...

CHARLOTTE – We hear a lot about the skills gap – people without jobs and jobs without people. But in the accompanying video, Jennifer Haygood, Acting President of the NC Community ...

DOBSON – The welding shop at Surry Community College is a study in supply and demand – and the upshot is high wages for welders the college trains. Five-and-a-half years ago, ...

DOBSON – Many of us don’t realize how many ways community colleges touch our lives. “We truly reflect the citizenship of our region,” President David Shockley of Surry Community College says ...

DOBSON – Grow grapes from tobacco soil?  They said it couldn’t be done. But construction and real-estate developers Charlie and Ed Shelton believed the red clay of the Yadkin Valley shares ...