With so many people in the area struggling to maintain healthy lifestyles, Edgecombe Community College is offering students a chance help their neighbors to better health. Thanks to a $25,000 grant through Durham-based Manpower Development Corp., which develops projects to reduce poverty, the College began offering tuition-free Community Health Coach classes this year. “We’ve had […]
The Rocky Mount Rotary Club presented Edgecombe Community College with $22,000 on Monday to support student scholarships. The presentation took place during a Rocky Mount Rotary Club meeting, during which Rotary leaders presented $66,000 in scholarship funds to support local students attending Edgecombe Community College, Nash Community College, and North Carolina Wesleyan College. The funds […]
Nash UNC Health Care is providing scholarships to five Edgecombe Community College nursing students. The scholarship recipients participated in a recent Signing Day ceremony as they committed to participating in the Nash UNC Nurse Scholars Program. The scholarship program funds the cost of each student’s education, tuition, and books. It also includes a monthly stipend […]
Dr. Greg McLeod, president of Edgecombe Community College, and Dr. Karrie Dixon, interim chancellor of Elizabeth City State University, met last week to discuss partnerships between the two schools. Dr. Dixon, who was recently appointed interim chancellor of ECSU, traveled to ECC’s Tarboro campus on October 16 as part of her regional tour of community […]
The Edgecombe Community College Foundation’s 33rd Annual Golf Tournament raised more than $24,000 for student scholarships. The tournament was held October 9 at Maccripine Country Club in Macclesfield. Thirty-three teams competed in the tournament, which is among the largest fundraisers for student scholarships held by the ECC Foundation. “It was a beautiful day, the players […]
On October 10, East Carolina University admissions staff introduced Edgecombe Community College students to the Pirate Promise, a new partnership that provides a seamless transition for ECC College Transfer students to the university. The program enables students, while enrolled at ECC, to benefit from a variety of ECU services prior to transferring. Shown is Erica […]
Edgecombe Community College health sciences students provided health information and free blood glucose and blood pressure checks at the Health Sciences Fair held Wednesday on the Rocky Mount campus. Shown from left are Cashonna Griffin, a second-year Nursing student, and Patricia Davis, an ECC staff member.
Josie Brown Davis of Rocky Mount was recently appointed to a four-year term on the Edgecombe Community College Board of Trustees. Appointed to the board by Governor Roy Cooper, Davis is a retired educator who spent 38 years as a teacher and administrator in Nash-Rocky Mount Schools and Edgecombe County Public Schools. She also worked […]
For the past 20 years, Edgecombe Community College’s Tutoring Center has helped thousands of students pass classes, graduate with credentials, and even weather life’s ups and downs. Vicky Bolivar, who graduated in 2015 with degrees in Spanish and business administration, raves about the College’s Tutoring Center. Shawn Smith, who is studying accounting at ECC, says […]
Edgecombe Community College’s Practical Nursing (PN) graduates who completed the program in August 2018 scored 100% on the National Council Licensure Examination for Practical Nurses (NCLEX-PN). ECC’s PN graduates have achieved a 100% pass rate since the program began in 2003. The NCLEX-PN is required for practice as a licensed practical nurse. From left are […]
