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, […]
North Carolina Wesleyan College (NCWC) recently reauthorized an agreement that will help qualified graduates of Edgecombe Community College (ECC) transfer to Wesleyan. The agreement aims to provide a seamless transfer for students who enroll at Wesleyan following completion of their two-year degree at ECC. Leaders of both colleges attended the September 29 signing held on […]
The Rocky Mount Rotary Club presented Edgecombe Community College with $17,000 on Monday to support student scholarships. The presentation took place during a Rotary Zoom meeting, during which Rotary leaders presented $51,000 in scholarship funds to support local students attending Edgecombe Community College, Nash Community College, and North Carolina Wesleyan College. The funds were raised […]
Edgecombe Community College is offering a fall mini-term that begins October 20 and ends December 17. This eight-week mini-term makes it possible for students to complete a course with the same quality of instruction as a standard sixteen-week course, but on a shorter schedule. Most of the classes are online, but several are hybrid classes […]
Edgecombe Community College paused to observe 9/11 on September 11. The virtual event included patriotic music by Suzi Shippen-Wagner, program chair of Surgical Technology; prayer led by the Rev. Kenny Parker, ECC trustee; and comments by Carole Mehle, English instructor and chair of the Diversity and Global Connections Committee, which sponsored the observance. Read their […]
