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30315
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Dr. Scott Ralls became the seventh president of the North Carolina Community College System in May. Ralls points out that some of the major issues facing the System are degree completion, faculty salaries, and workforce shortages in jobs. In this article, Ralls discusses how he will focus on five major areas to overcome these issues and challenges in the state’s community colleges.
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29537
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Vance-Granville Community College is training the areas workforce with four campuses across the region. The college is also involved with economic development and offers direct assistance to small businesses in the area.
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29584
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The numbers show that Pitt Community College is an asset to eastern North Carolina. Seventy-eight percent of students who enrolled at Pitt stayed in the region and have contributed to the local economy, especially through health sciences.
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29590
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The Small Business Center, associated with Pitt Community College, provides client-oriented resources through individual counseling times, classes, and seminars for new business owners or established businesses in the region.
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North Carolina's fifty-eight community colleges prepare workers for jobs in existing industries and for the jobs of the future. There is a campus practically within a thirty-minute drive of every state citizen. The community college system had 158,000 students enrolled in distance learning programs in 2004, and another 800,000 students took at least one course on campus. Maurer discusses some of the more unusual course offerings, including aquaculture and marine science, aviation, court reporting and captioning, crime scene investigation, cyberscience investigation, culinary technology and hospitality, and nanotechnology.
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The North Carolina Community College System is the country's third largest. Around 800,000 students are served by 58 colleges with more than 100 campuses. Not only does the system provide citizens with basic skills for the workplace, it also makes available and provides higher education instruction. Gimpel highlights a number of the colleges and an offered specialty that is determined by the school's location: Brunswick Community College (aquaculture); Sandhills Community College (golf course management); and Surry Community College (grape cultivation and wine making).
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5901
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In 1963, the North Carolina General Assembly created a statewide community college system. Today the system has become a model for the nation and is rivaled only by those in California and Texas. Around 800,000 students are enrolled across the state.
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3833
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Martin Lancaster was appointed president of the North Carolina Community College System in 1997. His background as a state representative and U.S. Congressman provides good experience in dealing with the General Assembly in matters of funding to improve the system's out-dated equipment and to boost teacher salaries.
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24316
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Distance learning is becoming more popular at the collegiate level. Various community colleges offer distance learning and other video-taught classes.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 7, July 1997,
p50-55, il
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36152
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This historic house was home in the mid-1960s to the newly created Craven Industrial Educational Center. The center, soon expanding beyond the three rooms on the third floor, necessitated the construction and purchase of adjacent buildings. By the late 1960s, student body growth, expansion of programs, and referendum-generated monies made possible the campus where Craven Community College is today.
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Lloyd V. Hackley is the new president of the North Carolina Community College System. His goal is to get K-12 schools and two- and four-year colleges to coordinate their efforts to produce a literate, job-ready workforce.
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1649
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After eleven years at the helm of the North Carolina Community College System, former governor Bob Scott is retiring.
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1875
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Despite the passage of a first-ever funding referendum, some state community colleges, mostly ones in rural areas, are struggling to raise the required matching funds.
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1876
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Former governor Bob Scott is ending his 11-year tenure as head of the community college system. Scott's advocacy has been an invaluable part of making the state's community college system a model for the nation.
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569
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Rising tuition at North Carolina's community colleges may be closing doors to an increasing population of students who are trying to increase their marketable skills.
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