North Carolina's community colleges are creating success for students across the state.
I began to work at a minimum wage job straight out of high school, without any plans to continue my education, because that just wasn’t what people in my family did. The fact that I had even graduated High School was a bit of a miracle for us.
Before I was a student at Wake Tech, I was unable and unqualified to work in jobs that gave me the satisfaction of being a valuable team member to create something amazing.
I walked into Blue Ridge Community College with a clear vision of what I wanted to achieve. What I didn’t expect was the level of encouragement and assistance I’d receive from the faculty.
I had a young child that my family cared for during the time I was incarcerated. Upon my release, I was determined to make a good life for myself and my son and felt the first step towards reaching this goal would be to go back to school.
Aaron Humphrey thought that completing college was something that was impossible for him to achieve. Struggling in areas such as math in high school Humphrey did not receive very high grades. Instead of college Humphrey started working in fast food restaurants and worked himself up to managemen
My time here at Central Carolina Community College has been nothing short of life changing. Like many adults or returning students, obtaining a college degree has been a lifelong desire of mine.
Everyone has a story and those stories have common themes; indeed, the human condition requires such. All humanity experiences love and hate; joy and consternation. Each and every soul shall encounter daunting obstacles in the pursuit of every endeavor.
In chemistry, there exists a concept titled potential energy. This concept is characterized by the accumulation of potential to exert a maximum amount of energy by a body due to its surrounding conditions.
All Daisha Jordan could think about her senior year of high school, was what college or university she was going to attend. Campbell University offered Jordan admission and an academic scholarship and Jordan attended with hopes of being a part of the women's basketball team. Unfortunately, Jor
Making the decision to attend early college program at Southeastern Community College gave Austin Todd the best opportunity to achieve the long-term goals he had set for himself. Transferring to the main campus while still a junior in high school he began working on a two-year associates degree
Born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska Emily West-Furey at the age of 19 moved to Jacksonville, North Carolina in 2010 with her husband. For the next 5 years, she devoted her time to building and focusing on a family and raising her daughter while her husband was deployed. In 2015 Fuery-West decide
Not having taken classes for the past 15 years made going back to school very scary for Kimberly Sheppard. Entering Richmond Community College at the age of thirty-three was a decision that would change Sheppard's life and also her perspective on life itself. The reason for the delay in getting
In during her senior year in high school, Sarah Elizabeth Shepherd made the decision to become dually enrolled in the RIBN Program through Wilkes Community College and Lenoir-Rhyne University. Taking several WCC classes during high school did not prepare Shepherd for how involved she could becom
Erin Peyton Jones many times has found herself reflecting on the words of Thomas Edison: “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
Paul Caroline, a senior at Franklin County Early College High, attends VGCC in a dual-enrollment program. The support from faculty at the high school and college has been transformative, and he has found that learning not only yields the power to better oneself, but the world as a whole.
In 2012 Ahn Nguyen immigrated from her native Vietnam to America to be with her husband and to make a better life for herself and their children. After her husband's disability changed their plans she decided to work and studied English for three years. During this time she found an educationa
Born on in Wilson County, and raised there on the family farm John "Bryant" Ballance has developed a passion for agriculture. Working on the family farm throughout high school and being involved in Farmers of America Ballance decided to enroll at Wayne Community College and earn a degree in Agri