Edgecombe Community College Fall 2021 semester academic honor rolls are posted with corrections. Congratulations to the ECC Eagles who made the President’s List and Dean’s List! The following full-time students earned a 4.0 grade point average, placing them on the President’s List. Chapel Hill: Charles Price Denton: Heather Jones Elm City: Autumn Bryant, Parker Hobgood […]
Lynwood Roberson, executive director of the Edgecombe Community College Foundation, has been selected to receive an International Distinguished College Administrator Award from Phi Theta Kappa, the honor society for students attending two-year schools. Roberson is one of only 28 college administrators worldwide selected for the international distinction. He was nominated by Edgecombe’s Alpha Omega Nu […]
Dr. Valerie Bridges, superintendent for Edgecombe County Public Schools (ECPS), will give the keynote address during Commencement at Edgecombe Community College on Friday, May 13. Commencement will be an outdoor seated event on the Tarboro campus greenway. The ceremony will begin at 4 p.m. Dr. Bridges is the 2022 A. Craig Phillips North Carolina Superintendent […]
Dr. Greg McLeod, president of Edgecombe Community College, is the subject of a new Trailblazer Profile, an initiative of the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research at North Carolina State University. The Trailblazer Profiles are part of the Belk Center’s North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) History Project and highlight and celebrate the […]
June Cherry, a retired health care professional and a native of Tarboro, has been appointed to a four-year term on the Edgecombe Community College Board of Trustees. Appointed to the ECC board by the Edgecombe County Board of Education, she fills the position formerly held by Dr. Chad Cayton, who served on the board from […]
Edgecombe Community College is proud to announce its President’s List for the Fall 2021 semester. The following full-time students earned a 4.0 grade point average, placing them on the President’s List. Asheboro: Brook Allred Battleboro: Pamela Baker Black Creek: Anna Blackmon Chapel Hill: Charles Price Denton: Amy Gallimore, Heather Jones Edenton: Martha Smith Elm City: […]
For the second year in a row, Edgecombe Community College surgical technology graduates achieved a 100 percent pass rate on the national certification exam for surgical technologists. In December 2021, the seven members of the Surgical Technology Class of 2021 sat for and passed national certification administered by the National Board on Certification in Surgical […]
For two weeks last winter, Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte shut down following a ransomware attack that compromised much of the school’s computerized data. Numerous students were in danger of missing a full semester, or in some cases, possibly graduation, including 17 students in its health information technology program. That’s when Edgecombe Community College […]
“Education comes first” was a genuine family motto in the Batchelor household when Marlon Land was growing up. It makes sense, considering all the struggles her parents endured when they were just trying to find a public school that would accept them. “My mother had to leave home on two occasions just to finish school,” […]
When Michael Jordan, former vice president of student services at Edgecombe Community College, retired at the end of December, he ended a career that spanned 28 years with the college. Jordan, 62, says all he ever wanted to do was “help people.” Mission accomplished. From his first role at ECC as a psychology instructor to […]
