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Wayne Community College is one of 52 community colleges in the state that will increase opportunities for students to transfer to teacher education programs within the University of North Carolina

Hashim Davis will soon be taking classes at Forsyth Tech, and he’ll do so without one major stressor — how to pay for it. Davis, a recent graduate of Mount Tabor High School, is taking advantage of a new program at Forsyth Tech that offers incoming freshmen one free year of schooling, and that includes tuition, fees and books, a value of about $6,000. Parents are nervous about how they will pay for college following the pandemic. Buzz60’s Keri Lumm shares the results of a new stu...

Students who graduate from North Carolina high schools in 2021 and choose to attend a North Carolina community college in the fall may be eligible for a Longleaf Commitment Grant

Governor Cooper announced Monday that he has directed $51.4 million in new funding to help students access and complete postsecondary education.

Gov. Cooper announces $51.4 million in education grants, new financial aid program "Students and educators across our state have faced challenges both inside and outside the classroom over the course of the pandemic," Governor Cooper said. Author: Meilin Tompkins Updated: 6:29 PM EDT May 24, 2021 RALEIGH, N.C. — Governor Cooper announced Monday that he has directed $51.4 million in new funding to help students access and complete postsecondary education as the ...

. Four lucky Durham Technical Community College students will soon pioneer a bold new apprenticeship program with Durham-based KBI Biopharma designed to groom more workers for pharmaceutical manufacturing. The apprenticeship program announced today opens a Triangle-based jobs development partnership that is expected to serve as a model for the North Carolina Community College System’s statewide ApprenticeshipNC Program. The project also targets military veterans who might not recognize they h...

/ Flickr Enrollment at Central Piedmont Community College dropped by 20% from fall 2019 to fall 2020, according to data from the North Carolina Community College System. The schools enrollment dropped from 30,835 students down to 24,609. Fewer students have been enrolling in North Carolinas community colleges over the last year, and officials say the pandemic is to blame. According to figures published online by the North Carolina Community College System, enrollment was down 17% in the fall 20...

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Five political questions for 2021

  Figuratively speaking, of course. I stopped relying on the polling aggregator I built earlier the decade. I took fewer glances at the aggregators built by other pundits and political websites. Instead, I looked at a broader set of metrics — survey data about public attitudes instead of partisan preferences, for example, and trends in voter registration and behavior. I also started talking to a more varied collection of sources, via phone calls and email. I cast a wider net. I took more ser...