Rowan-cabarrus Community College News

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  • • Budget talks on school board agenda (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on March 21, 2010 at 05:25:43 am
    By Kathy Chaffin kchaffin@salisburypost.com Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education members will discuss the school system's budget request to the Rowan County Board of Commissioners on Monday. During a March 8 work session, the school board agreed to ...
  • • Event Sunday a piece of recovery for Basinger (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on March 19, 2010 at 04:27:05 am
    By David Freeze For the Salisbury Post On New Year's Eve 2002, Margaret Basinger was severely injured in at fall while volunteering her time. Her doctors diagnosed that she had severe spinal cord bruising, and she was described as an incomplete q ...
  • • RCCC lists (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on March 18, 2010 at 04:55:03 am
    Rowan-Cabarrus Community College announces students making the President's and Dean's List during the 2009 fall semester. - To qualify for the President's List, a student must attend full-time, carry a minimum of 12 credit hours and achieve a grade- ...
  • • Granite Quarry police chief decides it's time to call it quits (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on March 15, 2010 at 04:11:05 am
    By Mark Wineka mwineka@salisburypost.com GRANITE QUARRY â A fellow police officer radioed for Chief Clyde Adams Jr.'s assistance at the Dollar General on the western end of town. It was Jan. 17, 2001, and Adams took off for the store in his jet bl ...
  • • Business roundup: Reece joins Citizens South (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on March 14, 2010 at 05:35:03 am
    Stan Reece, a Kannapolis native and 30-year banking veteran, was recently named Rowan County executive for Citizens South Bank. Based in Salisbury, Reece is responsible for Citizen South's commercial banking services in the Salisbury and Statesvill ...
  • • Civitan scholarships (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on March 11, 2010 at 05:50:48 am
    Scholarships totaling $12,000 were awarded March 4 as the Salisbury Civitan Club observed its annual Scholarship Day during a meeting at the Country Club of Salisbury. The 2010 local college and high school students were selected as recipients of th ...
  • • RCCC offers courses (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on March 11, 2010 at 05:50:28 am
    CONCORD â The Office of Corporate and Professional Development at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College is offering basic and intermediate courses on the latest versions of Microsoft PowerPoint and Access. Classes will meet twice over two weeks in May at ...
  • • Homeless population up (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on March 9, 2010 at 06:10:44 am
    By Shavonne Potts spotts@salisburypost.com More people are homeless in Rowan County this year, according to an annual count that tracks the homeless population. The Point in Time count is conducted once a year. This year's count was conducted duri ...
  • • Rowan-Cabarrus to offer FastTrac program (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on March 4, 2010 at 06:56:24 am
    CONCORD â The Small Business Center at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College (RCCC) will offer the award-winning FastTrac New Venture entrepreneurship program at no cost to displaced workers, beginning March 22. The three-week class will meet at RCCC's Ca ...
  • Several serious wrecks, but snow will melt rapidly (The Charlotte Observer)
    posted on March 3, 2010 at 01:19:58 pm
    Main roads are wet this morning, but secondary roads are partially snow-covered. While Mecklenburg schools are open, a number of neighboring schools are on a delay.
  • • Schools on 3-hour delay (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on March 3, 2010 at 11:55:03 am
    Rowan-Salisbury Schools are on a three-hour delay for students; a one-hour delay for staff. Rowan-Cabarrus Community College classes start at 10 a.m. The East Rowan YMCA will open at 9 a.m. ...
  • • Helping hands unite (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on March 1, 2010 at 05:42:04 am
    By Shelley Smith ssmith@salisburypost.com Rowan-Cabarrus Community College and Stanly Community College students came together Saturday for a community service project on the new Habitat ReStore, priming and painting walls. The two schools are part ...
  • • Cohen seeks office for first time (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on March 1, 2010 at 05:40:53 am
    Chris Cohen, a Salisbury contractor, has filed for a seat as county commissioner. Cohen, 52, is seeking elected office for the first time. He is a Republican and nephew of former county commissioner chairman J. Newton Cohen. In a prepared statement ...
  • • RCCC programs to get people back to work (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on March 1, 2010 at 05:40:03 am
    Rowan-Cabarrus Community College has announced a new schedule of "JobsNow" certificate programs starting this month. As part of the statewide "JobsNow 12-in-6" initiative, RCCC's programs will provide unemployed adults the opportunity to be trained ...
  • N.C. Research Campus leases building to community college for career center (Local Tech Wire)
    posted on February 25, 2010 at 11:33:08 am
    Get the latest news alerts: Follow LTW at Twitter. KANNAPOLIS, N.C. — Rather than renovating the downtown Visitors Center and reopening it as a tribute to science, textiles and NASCAR, the N.C. Research Campus has leased the building to Rowan-Cabarrus Community College.
  • • Education roundup: RCCC gets car from race team (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on February 25, 2010 at 05:55:14 am
    CONCORD â Red Bull Racing, a NASCAR Sprint Cup team fielding cars for drivers Brian Vickers and Scott Speed, has donated a Sprint Cup Series Toyota from its fleet to Rowan-Cabarrus Community College's Motorsports Management Technology program. The c ...
  • • Randall Correll files for sheriff (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on February 24, 2010 at 01:25:03 pm
    By Jessie Burchette jburchette@salisburypost.com Randall Correll sent a shock wave through local politics in 2006. He took on two-term incumbent Sheriff George Wilhelm and pulled in 35 percent of Republican votes. Wilhelm retired in November. Th ...
  • • Rowan Co. in 'good financial shape' (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on February 24, 2010 at 05:27:34 am
    By Karissa Minn kminn@salisburypost.comIn spite of a struggling economy, Rowan County is in good financial shape, said County Finance Director Leslie Heidrick. "We are monitoring our revenues, and through January, we looked pretty much on track for ...
  • • Kannapolis, Concord addresses confusing (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on February 22, 2010 at 06:11:16 am
    By Emily Ford eford@salisburypost.com KANNAPOLIS â When TLC's popular television show "American Chopper" broadcast an episode last year from Stewart-Haas Racing, the host pronounced that he was in "Concord, North Carolina." Viewers in Kannapolis c ...
  • • New dean at Rowan-Cabarrus (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on February 18, 2010 at 06:41:24 am
    Salisbury native Phil Cameron has joined Rowan-Cabarrus Community College's academic leadership team as dean of special projects. In the newly created dean position, Cameron will lead initiatives in sustainability, information technology/intellectua ...
  • • RCCC electrical course (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on February 18, 2010 at 06:40:44 am
    Rowan-Cabarrus Community College (RCCC) is offering a one-day electrical contractor's course: "National Electrical Code Simplified." The class will meet 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 6, at RCCC's North Campus, in Salisbury. The course fee is $65, ...
  • • Stirewalt set to take on Brock (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on February 18, 2010 at 05:55:56 am
    By Kathy Chaffin kchaffin@salisburypost.com A Rowan County man filed Friday as a third Republican for the 34th District N.C. Senate seat presently held by four-term incumbent Andrew Brock. Robert Dale Stirewalt of China Grove will face Brock and f ...
  • • County backs keeping illegal immigrants out of school (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on February 17, 2010 at 06:25:47 am
    By Karissa Minn kminn@salisburypost.com The Rowan County Board of Commissioners heard from several people Monday about the illegal immigration resolution they later passed unanimously. The resolution calls for the prohibition of illegal immigrants ...
  • • RCCC can show how to help displaced workers (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on February 16, 2010 at 05:55:24 am
    By Emily Ford eford@salisburypost.com A delegation from Rowan-Cabarrus Community College will meet Wednesday with the state's job task force to share the college's expertise in helping laid off workers. The college's innovative responses after mas ...
  • • Shaver wins spelling bee (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on February 10, 2010 at 06:11:14 am
    By Kathy Chaffin kchaffin@salisburypost.com The third time was a charm for Augusta Shaver of Corriher-Lipe Middle School, the winner of Tuesday night's 2010 Rowan-Salisbury School System District Spelling Bee. Augusta, a seventh-grader at Corriher ...
  • • Hall files for re-election (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on February 10, 2010 at 06:10:44 am
    Staff report Rowan County commissioner Tina Hall filed for re-election Monday. Hall, 59, is seeking a second term on the Board of Commissioners. She ran in 2006 as a Democrat but changed her affiliation to Republican in 2009. "Almost four years ag ...
  • • RCCC earns economic development honor (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on February 10, 2010 at 05:40:35 am
    CHARLOTTE â Rowan-Cabarrus Community College has won an economic development award from the Charlotte Regional Partnership. RCCC and nine other community colleges in the Charlotte region will be honored May 25 with Jerry Awards for work in the publi ...
  • • RCCC Foundation receives Cannon grant (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on February 10, 2010 at 05:40:24 am
    Rowan-Cabarrus Community College Foundation has received a $400,000 grant from the Cannon Foundation to improve and update the college's information technology network. RCCC will use the Cannon Foundation grant, other gifts and some state funds to c ...
  • • Business roundup: Kannapolis native's firm receives $9.5 million federal research grant (The Salisbury Post)
    posted on February 7, 2010 at 05:25:24 am
    The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a three-year, $9.5 million research grant to South Shore Clinical Consulting (SSCC), a Cornelius-based research firm founded by Kannapolis native Brent Lambert. The Cooperative Studies Program Clinical ...
  • RCCC sees increased enrollment (Independent Tribune)
    posted on February 3, 2010 at 11:00:00 am
    CONCORD — Enrollment is at an all-time high for the spring semester, said Carol Spalding, president of Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, at a board of trustees meeting at the Cabarrus Business and Technology Center last week.