Keeping up with WRAL TechWire’s ongoing initiative to track events happening across North Carolina, here’s a look at what’s to come in February:
February 1
The NC IDEA Foundation is offering two grant opportunities for startups this season: NC IDEA MICRO provides $10,000 project-based grants to entrepreneurs looking to validate and advance their ideas. NC IDEA SEED provides $50,000 grants to early-stage companies, giving them the boost they need to scale faster. Applications for the spring 2021 cycle open on Feb. 1 and close on March 1.
February 2, 5:30-6:30 p.m. (online)
Flywheel is hosting a five-week educational program covering management and operations for startup founders and C-suite employees. The course is tailored toward startups that have raised funding and are ready to scale their business operations.
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Updated December 22, 2020 8:22 a.m. EST
By Cullen Browder, WRAL anchor/reporter
Raleigh, N.C. When the economy falters, community college enrollment normally rises as people seek to retrain for better employment opportunities.
After recession hit in 2008, for example, Wake Technical Community College President Scott Ralls said the impact was immediate and long-lasting. For about a three-year period, our enrollment grew by about 28 percent, Ralls said.
While the pandemic hasn’t caused the economy to collapse, many people are still struggling. In true 2020 fashion, the normal response to uncertain times is out the window.
Nationally, community college enrollment is down 9.5 percent this year. Wake Tech fared better, with only a 1.3 percent decline this fall, although that doesn t account for the drop in classes students are taking.
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The N.C. Community College System elected Thomas Stith III to lead it through the coronavirus pandemic and steep enrollment losses.
Stith will become president of a system of 58 community colleges that enroll about 700,000 students a year. He now serves as district director of the U.S. Small Business Administration, a federal agency that secured more than $16 billion in coronavirus relief for N.C. small businesses. Stith also was chief of staff to former Gov. Pat McCrory from 2013 to 2017.
He succeeds interim president William Carver and former President Peter Hans, who left in August to become president of the University of North Carolina System.