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Nash Community College

School Overview:

School Notes:

• Nash Community College, a unit of the North Carolina Community College System, was founded in 1967 and is a public two-year post secondary educational institution with an open door admission policy. Its mission is to provide adults in the Nash County service area with quality and convenient learning opportunities consistent with identified student and community needs. Over 11,000 citizens participated in programs at Nash Community College during the 2003-2004 school year.
• The College is located on 86 acres midway between Nashville and Rocky Mount, North Carolina. While the primary service area is Nash County, the convenient location attracts students from the surrounding counties of Franklin, Wake, Wilson, and Halifax. Five modern buildings including the 48,000 square foot Business and Industry Center and a four-star rated Child Development Center comprise the campus physical plant. A new two-story 46,000 square foot Science and Technology Center is under construction that will encompass specialized classrooms and state-of-the-art labs to support instruction in biology, anatomy and physiology, chemistry, physics, and networking technology. The projected completion of the Science and Technology Center is fall 2005.
• Vocational, occupational, business, and industry related programs are offered which prepare students for jobs and provide a skilled workforce for the area. Additionally, the College offers Adult Basic Education, GED, and adult high school to meet the diverse needs of the citizenry in Nash County and surrounding area.
• Nash Community College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award the Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, Associate in General Education, and the Associate in Applied Science Degrees.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

In the News:

• Shag festival to boost soldiers, tourism (Rocky Mount Telegram)
  posted on October 26, 2009 at 03:33:28 am
  Nash County tourism officials are organizing a shag dancing festival over the New Year’s holid...
• Health care executives sound off on reform efforts (Rocky Mount Telegram)
  posted on October 14, 2009 at 01:16:54 am
  The national debate on health care came to Rocky Mount during a forum on reform Tuesday at the Busin...
• Vendors tout their wares (Rocky Mount Telegram)
  posted on October 14, 2009 at 01:01:54 am
  Dave Hansen has promoted his mail-order business at expos and trade shows all over the United States...
• Chamber to sponsor expo (Rocky Mount Telegram)
  posted on October 12, 2009 at 04:47:26 am
  Local hospital administrators will be part of a panel discussion on health care reform at the upcomi...
• Chamber gears up for Expo (Rocky Mount Telegram)
  posted on October 12, 2009 at 04:32:06 am
  Local hospital administrators will be part of a panel discussion on health care reform Tuesday at the Rocky Mount Area Chamber of Commerce’s Business Expo ’09.

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