“Closing the Skills Gap”
Governor McCrory’s new workforce development strategy will need substance to match the slogans.
Bachelor’s Degrees at Community Colleges?
Apr 27, 2014 ·
Harry Painter
In an unexpected move, four college presidents present the idea to the North Carolina legislature.
New Era Looms for Community College System
Jul 12, 2007 ·
Jane S. Shaw
The North Carolina Community College System is choosing a successor to H. Martin Lancaster, its current president, who will step down in May 2008. In a series of meetings, the search committee has solicited public comment about the “qualifications and characteristics” needed by the next president.
The July 11 meeting in Raleigh, chaired by Norma B. Turnage, vice chair of the committee, was low-key, with only eight commentators. But enough issues surfaced to suggest that the next president will face some troublesome conflicts.
Do Sports Programs and Community Colleges Mix?
Jul 11, 2007 ·
George Leef
Community colleges are and supposed to be an educational stepping stone for people who didn’t make much of their K-12 years or find that they need to learn a new skill if they are to find a new job. The idea that those schools would become more effective in their role by adding organized sports programs seems strange. Quite a few of them are doing so, however.
Are community colleges and sports programs a sensible mix?
Community Colleges Make Case for Bigger Salaries
Dec 21, 2000 ·
Martin Center Staff
Anticipating a bumpy financial road during the next session of the General Assembly, leaders for the North Carolina Community College System this week couched their request for more money to boost faculty and staff salaries in careful terms.
Community Colleges to Examine “Critical Needs”
Feb 17, 2000 ·
Martin Center Staff
Members of the State Board of Community Colleges met today to begin developing a proposal for financing capital needs at the state’s community college campuses. The North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) announced last Friday that they would partner with UNC to create a funding package that would address both systems’ capital needs.