The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a public research university in Greensboro,North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina system. Like all members of the UNC system,UNCG is a stand-alone university and awards its own degrees. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award baccalaureate,masters,specialist and doctoral degrees. It is classified among "R2:Doctoral Universities –High research activity".
Wake Forest is a town in Franklin,Granville and Wake counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina;located almost entirely in Wake County,it lies just north of the state capital,Raleigh. At the 2020 census,the population was 47,601. That is up from 30,117 in 2010,up from 12,588 in 2000. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the city's population to be 47,601 as of April 1,2020. In 2007,the town was listed by Forbes magazine as the 20th fastest growing suburb in America,with a 73.2 percent increase in population between 2000 and 2006. Wake Forest was the original home of Wake Forest University for 122 years before it moved to Winston-Salem in 1956.
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is a public,historically black land-grant research university in Greensboro,North Carolina. It is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina System. Founded by the North Carolina General Assembly on March 9,1891,as the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race,it was the second college established under the provisions of the Morrill Act of 1890,as well as the first for people of color in the State of North Carolina. Initially,the college offered instruction in agriculture,English,horticulture and mathematics. In 1967,the college was designated a Regional University by the North Carolina General Assembly and renamed North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
Wake Technical Community College is a public community college in Raleigh,North Carolina. Its first location,Southern Wake Campus,opened in 1963. Wake Tech now operates multiple campuses throughout Wake County. The largest community college in North Carolina,Wake Tech is part of the North Carolina Community College System and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
Vanderbilt Peabody College of Education and Human Development is the education school of Vanderbilt University,a private research university in Nashville,Tennessee. Founded in 1875,Peabody had a long history as an independent institution before merging with Vanderbilt University in 1979. The school is located on the Peabody Campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville. The academic and administrative buildings surround the Peabody Esplanade and are southeast of Vanderbilt's main campus.
Craven Community College is a public community college with its main campus in New Bern,North Carolina. It also has campuses in Havelock and Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point. Established in 1965,it was originally an extension of Lenoir Community College—Craven IEC. It later added degree-awarding programs in several technical fields and became a technical institute. In the early 1970s,college-transfer degrees were added and the school became a community college. It is part of the North Carolina Community College System.
Walter M. Williams High School,the flagship school of the Alamance-Burlington School System,is a high school in Burlington,North Carolina,United States. It was named in honor of philanthropist,industrialist,and former Burlington City Schools chairman Walter M. Williams. The school entered its eighth decade of operation in the 2022 school year.
The North Carolina Community College System is a statewide network of 58 public community colleges. The system enrolls over 500,000 students annually. It also provides the North Carolina Learning Object Repository as a central location to manage,collect,contribute,and share digital learning resources for use in traditional or distance-learning environments.
Carson K. Miller is an American academic who is the President Emeritus and founding President of Washington State Community College,a comprehensive state college serving southeast Ohio and northern West Virginia. He served as president from October 1,1985 through his retirement on June 30,2002.
Pitt Community College (PCC) is a public community college in Winterville,North Carolina in Pitt County. The college is part of the North Carolina Community College System. It has an enrollment of over 9,000 undergraduate students with a total of 11,771 students enrolled in the Curriculum Program. Pitt Community College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award associate degrees.
Avery Odelle Craven was an American historian who wrote extensively about the nineteenth-century United States,the American Civil War and Congressional Reconstruction from a then-revisionist viewpoint sympathetic to the Lost Cause as well as democratic failings during his own lifetime.
Eric B. Dent,Ph.D. holds the Uncommon Friends Endowed Chair in Ethics at Florida Gulf Coast University. Earlier in his career he served as the Dean of the School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and has made important contributions to many topics,such as the resistance to change and Complexity Theory.
Eastern North Carolina is the region encompassing the eastern tier of North Carolina,United States. It is known geographically as the state's Coastal Plain region. Primary subregions of Eastern North Carolina include the Sandhills,the Lower Cape Fear,the Crystal Coast,the Inner Banks and the Outer Banks. It is composed of the 41 most eastern counties in the state. Cities include Greenville,Jacksonville,Wilmington,Rocky Mount and North Carolina's first capital New Bern.
AmeriCorps VISTA is a national service program designed to alleviate poverty. President John F. Kennedy originated the idea for VISTA,which was founded as Volunteers in Service to America in 1965,and incorporated into the AmeriCorps network of programs in 1993. VISTA is an acronym for Volunteers in Service to America.
The North Carolina Learning Object Repository (NCLOR) is a service offered by the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS),that provides a central location to manage,collect,contribute,and share digital learning resources for use in traditional or distance learning environments. The NCLOR is available to all K-20 teachers across the state and provide vendor and peer resources for users. NCLOR participants include the 58 colleges from the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS),University of North Carolina (UNC) System,North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities,the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI),and North Carolina Virtual Public School (NCVPS).
The National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) is a non-profit research and graduate education institute headquartered in Hampton,Virginia,near NASA's Langley Research Center.
The North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) is the governing body for North Carolina's 58 public community colleges and has been empowered by the state of North Carolina to "adopt all policies,regulations and standards it may deem necessary for operation of the System" by the North Carolina General Assembly. On March 19,2010,the State Board of Community Colleges approved policy 23 N.C.A.C. 02C .0301 entitled "Admission to Colleges". The State Board has been researching and amending the policy for a decade now and it was implemented on July 10,2010,after completing the full amendment process. The Admission to Colleges policy states "undocumented immigrants can enter the system's 58 community colleges if they are a graduate of a United States high school,pay out-of-state tuition,and do not displace a North Carolina or United States citizen"
North Carolina House Bill 11,titled "No Post-Secondary Education/Illegal Aliens," was brought before the North Carolina General Assembly by Representative George Cleveland. The bill was introduced on January 31,2011,and is currently in committee. The bill calls for the prohibition of admission for undocumented students to North Carolina community colleges and universities.
Hilda Pinnix-Ragland is an American business executive and philanthropist. As the former Vice President of Corporate Public Affairs for Duke Energy,she was the first African-American woman to serve as a vice president at the company. She previously worked as the Vice President of Energy Delivery Services,Vice President of the North Region,and Vice President of Economic Development for Progress Energy Inc and was the first African-American woman to serve as a vice president. She currently serves on the board of directors for RTI International as Chair Audit &Risk Committee,in 2016,she was appointed to the 8 Rivers Capital,an energy technology company's Board and in 2020 she was appointed to the Board of Directors of Southwest Water Company. She is often the first African-American woman board member. Pinnix-Ragland also serves as the chairwoman of the board of trustees at North Carolina A&T State University. In May 2017 she co-authored the book The Energy Within Us:An Illuminating Perspective from Five Trailblazers.
