The 91ӣƵ Library has installed outdoor book return bins on both campuses. “We’re always on the lookout for ways to make our campuses safer for students during the pandemic, so enabling them to return books without having to enter a building was a no brainer,” says Deborah Parisher, director of library services at […]
Reserved parking spaces for 91ӣƵ students who are veterans or active duty military have been designated on the Tarboro and Rocky Mount campuses. A total of seven parking spaces, four on the Tarboro campus and three on the Rocky Mount campus, are reserved for student veterans. The spaces are strategically located in high […]
91ӣƵ student Alexia J. Richardson has received a People Helping People Scholarship from the State Employees Credit Union Foundation. The SECU Foundation established the People Helping People Scholarship program to assist students in each of the 58 community colleges in North Carolina. The scholarship provides a maximum of $1,250 per semester for four […]
When Hailee Griffin first reported to Nash General Hospital in May, she was working under a provisional license in an effort to get more respiratory therapy graduates in the field to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. “It was like a ghost town,” Griffin says of the Rocky Mount hospital’s COVID-19 wing. “No family; no visitors; just […]
91ӣƵ 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 […]
91ӣƵ 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 91ӣƵ, 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 91ӣƵ’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, […]
The Rocky Mount Rotary Club presented 91ӣƵ 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 91ӣƵ, Nash Community College, and North Carolina Wesleyan College. The funds were raised […]
91ӣƵ 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 […]
