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’s chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society was recently recognized for 20 years of participation in the Adopt-A-Highway program. At least twice a year since 2000, the group has sponsored seasonal drives to pick up litter along a three-mile stretch of Wilson Street in front of the Tarboro campus. The most […]
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 […]
Phillips/Bricks Alumni Association Scholarship Endowment Donors of $100 and Above Brenda Asbury Gwendolyn W. Barnes Eleanor Battle‐Sharpe Vivian M. Batts Minnie R. Bell Katherine Bellamy Maurieta E. Cozart Clarence Daniels Mary E. Davis In Loving Memory of Alfred Dickens, Class of 1950 Jacqueline O. Dickens Kary Dickens Freida P. Diggs Maniza Findlater DeLois G. Hamilton […]
David Joyner, general manager of the Rocky Mount Event Center, recently brought local college presidents and the Golden LEAF Foundation together to brainstorm on collaborative efforts to better serve area students. Shown from left are Dr. Lew Hunnicutt, Nash Community College; Scott Hamilton (behind Dr. Hunnicutt), president and CEO of Golden LEAF; David Joyner; Dr. […]
Edgecombe Community College announces 2020-2021 Student Government Association executive officers. From left are Isabella Garay, president, Associate in Science major; Nykia Lloyd, vice president, Early Childhood Education; Brooke Clark, parliamentarian, Respiratory Therapy; and Chantel Evans, Edgecombe Early College High School representative, Associate in Arts.
From left, Victoria Sowers, instructor, and Isabella Garay, president of the Student Government Association at Edgecombe Community College, reach for the sky during a Stretching and Flexibility Class held at ECC on September 30. The SGA sponsored the class, which met on the Tarboro campus greenway. The SGA is sponsoring Drive-In Movie Night on October […]
Students in Edgecombe Community College’s new program in Agribusiness Technology recently toured the Steven Brake poultry farm – S&N Enterprises – a contract grower for Perdue. The Pinetops farmer hosts students and others in the community who want to know more about growing commercial broiler chickens. ECC students dressed the part and learned about biosecurity, […]
