Featured We want to know what community college students think by Nation Hahn | January 14, 2020 Welcome to another week of Awake58! If you were forwarded this email, be sure to subscribe by clicking here. Hello, y’all....
Featured Join the Virtual Town Hall by Reach NC Voices Team | January 14, 2020 In 2019, EdNC.org began holding student town halls at community colleges across North Carolina. We are showing up to have real conversations...
Featured How do we achieve big goals in education? Community colleges are working on solutions. by Nation Hahn | December 19, 2019 North Carolina has seen a lot of effort dedicated to statewide conversations around education in recent years. Commissions. Court-ordered reports....
Featured The community college stories of 2019 by Nation Hahn | December 17, 2019 Hello, Awake58 readers! As we approach the end of 2019, this newsletter will take a break after a special edition...
Perspective Perspective | TPM Academy takes first steps on new NC workforce development program by Gary Salamido | December 11, 2019 With a skills gap that threatens North Carolina’s competitiveness and an ambitious educational attainment goal to reach on our horizon,...
Perspective Perspective | Framing the state’s myFutureNC goal at the local level by Matthew Meyer | December 10, 2019 This article was written by Matt Meyer in association with the State Council for Sector Strategies. “Ensuring that by 2030,...
Featured What will happen with student transfers in the future? by Nation Hahn | December 10, 2019 Welcome to another week of Awake58! If you were forwarded this email, be sure to subscribe by clicking here. Sandy Shugart...
Featured Today’s college students are ‘hardly carefree kids’ by Nation Hahn | December 5, 2019 American mass media have long portrayed a particular ideal of students entering college. They’re fresh-faced teens, just moving out of...
News Video: Sandy Shugart delivers 2019 Dallas Herring lecture by Jordan Wilkie and Taylor Shain | December 4, 2019 Sanford “Sandy” Shugart, president of Valencia College in Orlando, Florida, keynoted this year’s Dallas Herring lecture about urgent and emerging...
Featured An extra hill to climb for our community college students by Nation Hahn | December 3, 2019 Welcome to another week of Awake58! If you were forwarded this email, be sure to subscribe by clicking here. Western Piedmont...
Featured College students of North Carolina battle the storms of poverty by Rupen R. Fofaria | December 3, 2019 Ken Outlaw’s goal was to graduate community college with a 4.0 grade point average. He wanted to make up for...
News Improving the transfer ecosystem in North Carolina: The 2019 Dallas Herring lecture by Jordan Wilkie | December 3, 2019 Dallas Herring was a visionary education leader in North Carolina, and he is credited as a key figure in establishing...
