Jim Rose, vice chair of the State Board of Community Colleges, advised graduates at Edgecombe Community College Friday night that the “secret to success is to encourage other people.” Rose gave the keynote address during Commencement exercises at the College on Friday, May 11. ECC’s Class of 2018 comprises 439 students who received 536 curriculum […]
Educators from across North Carolina traveled to Edgecombe Community College on May 4 to participate in the College’s first student success symposium. Nearly forty community college and higher education professionals attended the No Greater Odds: Student Success Symposium. James McCoy and Charlene Gibson, co-creators and producers of the acclaimed documentary “No Greater Odds,” led professional […]
Edgecombe Community College students won ten awards, including six first-place honors, at the SkillsUSA North Carolina State Leadership and Skills Conference. The event was held April 18-20 in Greensboro. More than 2,500 students, instructors, industry members, and volunteers were on hand for the largest showcase of career and technical education in the state. Nearly 1,800 […]
Edgecombe Community College is proud to announce its President’s List for the Fall 2017 semester. The following full-time students earned a 4.0 grade point average, placing them on the President’s List. Battleboro: Lisa Barkley Bethel: Stanley Davenport East Flat Rock: Sherri Strickland Elm City: Logan Joyner Enfield: Katie Holcomb, Shanietra Johnson Greenville: Nikeia Baker, Kimberly […]
A little more than a decade ago, Michael Parker dropped out of high school and joined the workforce, knocking around Eastern North Carolina, searching for his way in life. “I was not mentally focused,” he says of his decision to drop out of high school at age seventeen. After a few years of low-paying hourly […]
Participation in a science competition at Edgecombe Community College helped shape Jilianne Leary’s academic and career goals. In 2016 and 2017, while a student at Edgecombe Early College High School and ECC, Leary was a member of Edgecombe Community College’s NASA/NC Space Grant unmanned high altitude balloon challenge. In the April 2017 statewide competition, ECC […]
Students from Tarboro, North Edgecombe, and Southwest Edgecombe high schools, and North East Carolina Prep School attended an October 20 College Fair at Edgecombe Community College to learn about opportunities in higher education. About 50 college counselors associated with the Carolinas Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers were on hand to promote their schools and programs. Shown […]
