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 ...

DOBSON – Lory Puckett knows that if she could do it, so can others. Puckett, a nursing instructor at Surry Community College, is very literally a master of her craft.  She ...

Our neighbors in Tennessee invented “free” community college. In 2014, Republican Gov. Bill Haslam launched the Tennessee Promise – two years of tuition-free community college for Tennessee high school graduates.  Tennessee ...

GREENSBORO – There are fancy names for the partnerships UNC Greensboro announced last week to make it easier for students from Guilford Technical Community College and Alamance Community College to ...

RALEIGH (Aug. 2, 2017) – The sudden departure of NC Community College System President Jimmie Williamson1 is yet another jolt to North Carolina higher education systems that have seen their ...

FAYETTEVILLE – Fayetteville State University Chancellor James Anderson dismisses any suggestion that there’s something wrong with starting out at a community college. “One of the misperceptions about the relationship between a ...