Edgecombe Community College Nursing students, Medical Assisting students, and instructors are volunteering at the free Farmworker Health and Resource Fair in Rocky Mount. The event is taking place every Sunday 12-4 p.m. in the Walmart parking lot on Benvenue Road. Resources include COVID-19 testing and support, food boxes while supplies last, and blood pressure and […]
Keihin Carolina System Technology has donated a 2021 Honda Accord Sport Turbo 2.0 liter 10-speed automatic as a hole-in-one prize for the Edgecombe Community College Foundation’s 35th Annual Golf Tournament on Thursday, April 22. Shown from left are KCST and ECC officials Lynwood Roberson, Tammie Barrett, Batt Masterson, Dr. Greg McLeod, and David Catt. Set […]
Sylvia Hinton-Grant, director of Human Resources Development at Edgecombe Community College, participated in the recent NC Division of Motor Vehicles Drive-Thru Career Fair in Rocky Mount. Human Resources Development programs focus on strengthening basic workplace skills by providing skill assessment services, employability skills training, and career development counseling to unemployed and underemployed adults. To learn […]
The Rev. Jerry W. Spruell, director of the Edgecombe County Board of Elections and an Edgecombe Community College trustee, will give the keynote address during Commencement at ECC on Saturday, May 8. Commencement will mirror last year’s event as the College celebrates the Class of 2021 with a Drive-Thru Graduation Parade. Remarks by Rev. Spruell, […]
Edgecombe Community College Nursing students, Medical Assisting students, and instructors are volunteering at the free Farmworker Health and Resource Fair in Rocky Mount. The event is taking place every Sunday 12-4 p.m. in the Walmart parking lot on Benvenue Road. Resources include COVID-19 testing and support, food boxes while supplies last, and blood pressure and […]
Edgecombe Community College and Edgecombe County Memorial Library are partnering on a national initiative to learn more about the lives of formerly enslaved African Americans in the 1860s. Local residents can help. ECC and the library are working with the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Smithsonian’s Transcription Center on the […]
Edgecombe Community College will host a virtual celebration of Black History Month on Thursday, February 11, at 12 p.m. The theme is “Expanding Career Horizons for African American Women in Our Community.” The public is invited to join the Zoom event through the link edgecombe.edu/black-history2021. Synthia Kearney, battalion chief with the Gastonia Fire Department, will […]
The Edgecombe Community College Foundation has received $100,000 through a bequest from the estate of Thomas S. Fleming Jr., who passed away in 2020. Thomas S. Fleming Jr. was the son of Dr. Thomas S. Fleming (pictured), a Tarboro dentist who served on the ECC Board of Trustees for 36 years, from 1971 to 2007, […]
Edgecombe Community College employees and Edgecombe County commissioners Evelyn Powell (left), District 1, and Viola Harris, District 2, were recognized recently by the Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners for completing a twelve-week online Colin Powell National Leadership class sponsored by the National Association of County Commissioners. Both Powell and Harris serve in the Office of […]
The family of Betty B. Ipock has endowed a scholarship in her memory at Edgecombe Community College. Ipock, who passed away in 1999, was a lifelong registered nurse. Her service to the profession included teaching nursing students at ECC. The Betty B. Ipock Memorial Endowed Scholarship will support students who are studying toward a degree […]
