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The North Carolina Board of Community Colleges recently approved a policy that makes it easier for bachelor-degree holding college graduates to obtain a teacher license and become elementary-school educators.
Published: Sunday, March 19th, 2023 @ 5:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Thomas Stith has tendered his resignation as president of the N.C. State Board of Community Colleges, marking the latest departure in a community college system that has seen high turnover in recent years. The resignation is effective July 22.
Published: Saturday, July 23rd, 2022 @ 10:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s community colleges are struggling to avoid revenue shortfalls and payroll problems.
Published: Friday, April 24th, 2020 @ 2:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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K-12 schools in North Carolina are currently shut down due to the Coronavirus outbreak, but they are not the only educational institutions that are being rocked by the virus.
Published: Tuesday, March 31st, 2020 @ 6:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The State Board of Community Colleges has issued new measures to increase flexibility for students and teachers as they adjust to the national COVID-19 outbreak.
Published: Saturday, March 21st, 2020 @ 7:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Community college classes are canceled or moving online through the end of the month as COVID-19 spreads in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, March 20th, 2020 @ 3:28 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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As state community colleges struggle to raise enrollment, they are looking to recruit more non-traditional students — those older than 25.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2020 @ 1:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Many political and education leaders in North Carolina say that our economy would be better off if our level of educational attainment was higher.
Published: Sunday, July 7th, 2019 @ 10:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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UNC-Chapel Hill is expanding its transfer student program by adding partnerships with Guilford Technical and Central Piedmont community colleges.
Published: Wednesday, January 16th, 2019 @ 3:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory led an educational discussion about Connect NC today at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Governor McCrory is the first governor to visit the UNCSA campus in more than 10-years. The conversation focused on what the bond would bring to UNCSA and the Triad...
Published: Monday, February 22nd, 2016 @ 3:37 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory and N.C. Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla, III joined over 200 business and education leaders today at the 7th annual small business summit to celebrate North Carolina's economic successes.
Published: Wednesday, January 13th, 2016 @ 3:46 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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After nearly eight months of lengthy and heated discussion, Republican leaders in the North Carolina Senate and House have come to a consensus on a $21.7 billion state budget for the next two years. Since education comprises the single biggest item in the state budget, there is a lot of interest...
Published: Monday, September 21st, 2015 @ 12:16 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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When you think of community colleges, you tend to think of things like, Offshore-Re-education-Camp-Lesson-6oh, job training and continuing education.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 6:09 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today
Published: Thursday, August 20th, 2015 @ 6:16 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory signed two bills into law today to support veterans and military families through in-state tuition at University of North Carolina (UNC) system universities and North Carolina Community Colleges and by improving job opportunities for veterans by extending the time period...
Published: Thursday, June 25th, 2015 @ 6:32 am
By: McCrory Communications
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The end of the semester and graduation are fast approaching at BCCC. Several events have already been held and are being planned in the next few weeks to salute our graduates and mark the end of the year.
Published: Sunday, May 3rd, 2015 @ 1:18 am
By: Barbara Tansey
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Clark Twiddy, a Dare County resident, was elected by the Senate on Thursday, April 16, 2015 to serve on the North Carolina State Board of Community Colleges for a term of six years.
Published: Friday, April 24th, 2015 @ 8:35 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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State lawmakers have started reviewing Gov. Pat McCrory's budget proposal for the 2015-2017 biennium. It sets out McCrory's General Fund spending plan for $22 billion in each of the next two fiscal years. The General Fund makes up a significant chunk of the overall state budget of more than...
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 12:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The taxpayers of North Carolina have historically made a tremendous commitment to education, and the next biennium will continue that legacy. More than 54 percent, or over $12 billion of our General Fund spending will be directed to education in each year of the biennium.
Published: Wednesday, March 11th, 2015 @ 8:17 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Attend a North Carolina State Board of Community Colleges meeting and you are likely to fall asleep as board members and community college system office staffers take turns dispassionately checking off the month's agenda items to unanimous approval.
Published: Monday, February 2nd, 2015 @ 10:43 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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BarryO has decided he wants to give everybody a free ride through community college. Heck. His radical overhaul of healthcare has worked *so well.* Why not meddle here?
Published: Saturday, January 31st, 2015 @ 2:39 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor McCrory released the following statement after today's University of North Carolina Board of Governors Meeting...
Published: Saturday, January 17th, 2015 @ 6:33 pm
By: Chris Downey
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During each legislative session, education is at the forefront of budget and policy discussions. Expenditures on elementary, secondary, and higher education (the University of North Carolina system plus the community college system) added up to more than $11.5 billion last year, or 58 percent of the
Published: Thursday, January 15th, 2015 @ 12:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In most states, community colleges offer only associate degrees in nursing, which require two to three years of education.
Published: Saturday, December 13th, 2014 @ 11:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Time was political candidates didn't spend all their money and energies telling us what a contemptuous scoundrel their opponent was.
Published: Saturday, October 18th, 2014 @ 12:03 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Governor Pat McCrory is calling for a scholarship program that will give newly separated veterans the equivalency of in-state tuition at the state's University of North Carolina institutions. In April, the governor said he will ask the Legislature for in-state tuition at the state's 58 community...
Published: Monday, May 12th, 2014 @ 12:47 am
By: Chris Downey
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Four presidents of North Carolina community colleges took the rest of the community college system by surprise last week. Three of them appeared before the legislature's House Study Committee on Education Innovation to ask for a legislative study about adding four-year bachelor's degrees to their...
Published: Saturday, May 3rd, 2014 @ 1:43 am
By: John William Pope Center
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BCCC students and faculty have been away from campus this week enjoying Spring Break while staff members have taken the opportunity to catch up on their work while the campus is less busy than usual.
Published: Monday, April 28th, 2014 @ 1:00 am
By: Barbara Tansey
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BCCC saluted its graduates this week at the annual Graduate Recognition Ceremony.
Published: Sunday, April 20th, 2014 @ 12:44 am
By: Barbara Tansey
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The Beaufort County Community College Board of Trustees on Tuesday agreed to seek an increase in appropriations from the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners in the coming fiscal year with the majority of the increase coming from needed construction projects.
Published: Thursday, April 17th, 2014 @ 10:30 am
By: Barbara Tansey
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The Beaufort County Community College Board of Trustees on Tuesday agreed to seek an increase in appropriations from the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners in the coming fiscal year with the majority of the increase coming from needed construction projects.
Published: Sunday, April 6th, 2014 @ 2:09 am
By: Barbara Tansey
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