Edgecombe Community College’s Alpha Omega Nu chapter of Phi Theta Kappa welcomed seventeen new members into its membership this fall. Phi Theta Kappa is an honor society for students attending two-year schools. The organization recently held a virtual induction ceremony. The guest speaker was Rick Basile, chair of Criminal Justice and 2019-2020 Keihin Endowed Faculty […]
Edgecombe Community College Student Ambassadors participated in Feed the City at Mount Zion First Baptist in Rocky Mount on December 12. The event was held to assist people who have been struggling to make ends meet during the pandemic. Approximately 2,000 individuals were fed during the event. From left are ECC Student Ambassadors Nahdia Sharp […]
Yazmin Lopez, an Early Childhood Education student at Edgecombe Community College, uses an ice cream cone to create a Christmas tree during an EDU 151 Creative Activities class. Students create visual recipe charts so that preschoolers who cannot yet read can look at the charts and prepare simple recipes. Spring semester classes at ECC […]
Santa came early this year at Edgecombe Community College. The College recently received more than $850,000 for the Rural College Broadband Access project from the North Carolina Community College System to address technology needs, access, and security. This funding will assist ECC with critical information technology infrastructure and network security improvements. ECC will use the […]
When spring classes begin at Edgecombe Community College on January 7, the teaching and learning landscape will look very similar to fall semester: safe and effective. Most classes will be delivered online, with some offered as a hybrid of online and in-person instruction. In general, lecture courses will be offered online unless there are multiple […]
The Edgecombe Community College Library has installed outdoor book return bins on both campuses. “We’re always on the lookout for ways to make our campuses safer for students during the pandemic, so enabling them to return books without having to enter a building was a no brainer,” says Deborah Parisher, director of library services at […]
Reserved parking spaces for Edgecombe Community College students who are veterans or active duty military have been designated on the Tarboro and Rocky Mount campuses. A total of seven parking spaces, four on the Tarboro campus and three on the Rocky Mount campus, are reserved for student veterans. The spaces are strategically located in high […]
Edgecombe Community College student Alexia J. Richardson has received a People Helping People Scholarship from the State Employees Credit Union Foundation. The SECU Foundation established the People Helping People Scholarship program to assist students in each of the 58 community colleges in North Carolina. The scholarship provides a maximum of $1,250 per semester for four […]
When Hailee Griffin first reported to Nash General Hospital in May, she was working under a provisional license in an effort to get more respiratory therapy graduates in the field to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. “It was like a ghost town,” Griffin says of the Rocky Mount hospital’s COVID-19 wing. “No family; no visitors; just […]
Edgecombe Community College has received nearly $137,000 to help students cover the costs of short-term workforce training programs. The support is part of $95.6 million in new funding for North Carolina K-12 and postsecondary students impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding is North Carolina’s share of the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) Fund, a […]
