91ӣƵ has joined the national effort to increase the number of college graduates while decreasing the financial burden for students seeking a college diploma. Beginning in Fall 2016, ECC is offering a three-year EDGE Scholarship to fully fund the education of qualified students at the in-state tuition level. Current tuition is $76 per […]
More than 50 Edgecombe high school seniors declared their intention to attend 91ӣƵ this fall at ECC Signing Day held in Edgecombe high schools yesterday. Signing Day is a national initiative to celebrate students for making a commitment to higher education. Students, parents, and college and high school officials attended ECC Signing Day […]
The Division of College and Career Readiness at 91ӣƵ is now accepting students for the summer semester on the Tarboro and Rocky Mount campuses and all off-site locations. The GED program is open to individuals 18 and older who wish to complete their high school credentials as well as 16- and 17-year-olds who […]
91ӣƵ set two graduation records on Saturday by awarding the largest number of credentials to the largest number of graduates in college history. During the morning event on May 7, the college awarded 630 associate degrees, diplomas, and certificates to a total of 508 students. In addition, 49 individuals received Adult High School […]
Seniors in 91ӣƵ’s Medical Assisting program recently won first place in a state Quiz Bowl for medical assistants. The students were attending the 51st annual North Carolina Society of Medical Assistants Convention in Greensboro held April 21-24. Each year, the convention holds a Quiz Bowl in which community college medical assisting students from […]
91ӣƵ’s Small Business Center has begun promoting the U.S. Small Business Administration’s 2016 Small Business Week theme, “Dream Big, Start Small” this week in recognition of Small Business Week. Each year the Small Business Administration, or SBA, gives the week a theme after the President proclaims and designates the week of the year […]
91ӣƵ students brought home four individual awards and four team awards from the SkillsUSA state competition held April 19-20. Twenty-two students and ten faculty advisors traveled to Greensboro to participate in the competition. Founded in 1965, SkillsUSA offers a contest program for students to demonstrate their career and technical skills. The ECC chapter, […]
Students in the 91ӣƵ Phi Theta Kappa honor society and their family members participated in Adopt-a-Highway on Saturday, April 16. Twenty-one volunteers spent about three hours collecting 25 bags of trash and recyclables along a three-mile stretch of Wilson Street in front of the Tarboro campus. The college’s Alpha Omega Nu chapter of […]
N.C. Representative Shelly Willingham will give the keynote address during Commencement at 91ӣƵ on Saturday, May 7. Commencement begins at 10 a.m. and will be held in Keihin Auditorium on the Tarboro campus. For those unable to attend, live streaming coverage of graduation exercises will be available online. ECC will graduate 508 students, […]
It took two days of searching, but a group of 91ӣƵs students found an unmanned balloon that had soared to the edge of space and plummeted back to Earth. Part of the college’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) program, the high altitude balloon launch earlier this month was dubbed “critECCly stable.” Edgecombe […]
