Wayne Community College Continuing Education will hold several information sessions in March about its nurse aide program.
Anyone interested in enrolling in a Nurse Aide I or II course in the summer 2015 session must attend an information session about the registration process for the program. The sessions are free and do not require pre-registration.
The sessions are scheduled for 12-1 p.m. on March 3, 10, 26 and 31; 1-2 p.m. on March 17; and 5:30-6:30 p.m. on March 5, 9, 19, 23, and 30.
All will be held in Room 101 of the Walnut Building on the college’s main campus in Goldsboro. Attendees must stay for the entire session in order to obtain registration paperwork and be allowed to sign up for a course during the registration period that will be held in April.
Two Nurse Aide I courses will be taught in the morning – one traditional and one hybrid (partially online) instructional methods – and two sections of evening traditional method classes will be provided in the summer semester, which runs late-May through mid-August. Nurse Aide II courses will also be offered. Details can be found at www.waynecc.edu/continuing-ed/ allied-health/.
For additional information on these or any other WCC Continuing Education allied health courses, contact Joyce Hamilton-Fleming at (919) 739-6929 or jhfleming@waynecc.edu or Terrie Wynn at (919) 739-6935 or tjwynn@waynecc.edu.
Wayne Community College is a public, learning-centered institution with an open-door admission policy located in Goldsboro, N.C. As it works to develop a highly skilled and competitive workforce, it serves 14,500 individuals annually as well as businesses, industry and community organizations with high quality, affordable, accessible learning opportunities, including more than 90 college credit programs.
Wayne Community College’s mission is to meet the educational, training, and cultural needs of the communities it serves.
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Students who still want to attend Wayne Community College this spring have one more chance to register for classes.
Registration for “Spring II” condensed courses will be held 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 26 on the college’s main campus in Goldsboro. Tuition and fees must be paid by 4 p.m. on March 4.
Registration for classes taught on Seymour Johnson Air Force Base will be held 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Feb. 17-March 9 at the Watkins-Das Education Center on Seymour Johnson Air Force Base for active duty military personnel.
More than five dozen classes that provide a full semester’s material in an eight-week format are available, such as Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture, Art Appreciation, Brake Systems, Principles of Supervision, Fundamentals of Computing, Criminal Law, Principles of Microeconomics, Beginning Tennis, Music Appreciation, Pre-calculus Trigonometry, State and Local Government, General Psychology, World Religions, and Introduction to Sociology. Many four-week developmental mathematics and reading/writing courses are also being offered.
A complete schedule of Spring II courses can be found at www.waynecc.edu/wp-content/uploads/spring-2.pdf.
Classes offered on campus and the base, as well as distance education courses, start March 9 and end May 12.
Before students can register, they must complete the admission process, including taking placement tests. The application and instructions are available at the college’s Web site, the Admissions Office on the main campus and the offices on base.
Call (919) 735-5151 or go to www.waynecc.edu for more information.
Wayne Community College is a public, learning-centered institution with an open-door admission policy located in Goldsboro, N.C. As it works to develop a highly skilled and competitive workforce, it serves 14,500 individuals annually as well as businesses, industry and community organizations with high quality, affordable, accessible learning opportunities, including more than 90 college credit programs.
Wayne Community College’s mission is to meet the educational, training, and cultural needs of the communities it serves.
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The Foundation of Wayne Community College’s series of lectures on American Civil War battles continues Monday, Feb. 16 with “Sherman’s March: Atlanta to Goldsborough.”
The presentation will include the “Sherman’s March To The Sea” video from The History Channel’s “The Conquerors” series with commentary by local historian Kirk Keller.
The rest of the lectures in the series will be back on the Tuesday evening schedule. They include “Battle of Bentonville, N.C.” on March 17 and “Sherman’s Occupation of Goldsborough, N.C.” on April 21.
All are set for 7 p.m. and will be held in Moffatt Auditorium. They are free and open to the public with no reservations or registrations required.
For more information, contact the Foundation at (919) 739-7007 or awnorthington@waynecc.edu.
The college encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing accommodation or having questions about access, please contact the Foundation at (919) 739-7007 or awnorthington@waynecc.edu. Allow sufficient time to arrange accommodations.
The Foundation of Wayne Community College is a non-profit organization that works to broaden the base of community support for educational opportunities at the college. In addition to offering cultural activities such as those in its Arts and Humanities Program, the Foundation assists students, providing 368 scholarships worth more than $243,000 in the 2013-14 academic year, and funds innovative campus projects and employee recognition opportunities.
Wayne Community College is a public, learning-centered institution with an open-door admission policy located in Goldsboro, N.C. As it works to develop a highly skilled and competitive workforce, it serves 14,500 individuals annually as well as businesses, industry and community organizations with high quality, affordable, accessible learning opportunities, including more than 90 college credit programs.
Wayne Community College’s mission is to meet the educational, training, and cultural needs of the communities it serves.
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Individuals who plan to attend college in the 2015-16 academic year and their families can get assistance with the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) forms later this month.
From 9 a.m. to noon, on Saturday, Feb. 28, financial specialists and college aid professionals will assist with completing and submitting the forms which are required to be considered for all federal and most state financial aid for college, including scholarships and grants. There are locations in every county in the state, including the Spruce Building at Wayne Community College in Goldsboro.
Pre-registration is strongly encouraged. Contact the College Foundation of North Carolina at (866) 866-2362 or www.CFNC.org/FAFSAday to register for this free program.
To be fully prepared to complete the FAFSA that day, participants should either file their 2014 federal taxes in advance or bring the following items: both the student’s and parents’ federal 1040 tax forms for 2014 (or W-2 forms and other income and asset documents if completed tax forms are not available); the student’s and one parent’s Personal Identification Numbers (PINs) obtained in advance from the U.S. Department of Education website, www.pin.ed.gov; and a 2015-16 FAFSA on the Web worksheet with as much information entered as possible. The online worksheet is available at www.fafsa.gov.
FAFSA Day is sponsored annually by the N.C. Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, State Employees’ Credit Union, and College Foundation of North Carolina (CFNC).
Additional free college planning information is available at the College Foundation of North Carolina website, CFNC.org. Families can find financial aid videos, college cost estimators, listings of scholarship, grant and loan opportunities, financial literacy materials, career information, virtual tours of more than 100 of the state’s college campuses, and online college admission and financial aid applications.
Wayne Community College is a public, learning-centered institution with an open-door admission policy located in Goldsboro, N.C. As it works to develop a highly skilled and competitive workforce, it serves 14,500 individuals annually as well as businesses, industry and community organizations with high quality, affordable, accessible learning opportunities, including more than 90 college credit programs.
Wayne Community College’s mission is to meet the educational, training, and cultural needs of the communities it serves.
College Foundation of North Carolina (CFNC) is a free service of the State of North Carolina provided by a partnership of the Department of Public Instruction, the N.C. Community College System, the N.C. Independent Colleges and Universities, the University of North Carolina, College Foundation, Inc., and the N.C. State Education Assistance Authority.
A not-for-profit financial cooperative owned by its members, the State Employees Credit Union has been providing employees of the State of North Carolina and their families with consumer financial services for 77 years. The Credit Union also offers a diversified line of financial advisory services including retirement and education planning, tax preparation, insurance, trusts, estate planning and investments through its partners and affiliated entities. SECU serves nearly 2 million members through 254 branch offices, 1,100 ATMs, 24/7 Contact Centers and a website, www.ncsecu.org.
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The rich legacy of food and agriculture in North Carolina will be the subject of the next Wayne County Reads activity.
A panel of local experts will celebrate and reflect on Southern food and farming culture through their personal stories and recollections, and will share their vision for the future of food and agriculture in North Carolina. The discussion will take place at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 10 at the Wayne County Museum on William Street in downtown Goldsboro.
Panelists include
Cheryl Alston of the Wayne Food Initiative,
Marisa Benzle of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS),
June Hoyle of the Wayne County Master Gardeners,
Gabe Mitchell of the Wayne Community College Agriculture and Natural Resources Department, and
Jessica Strickland of the Wayne County Cooperative Extension.
It will be moderated by Shorlette Ammons of N.C. A&T State University and CEFS.
The public can also view the “Lexicon of Sustainability” show of 24 “information artworks” that illustrate various concepts of sustainable agriculture. The works will be on display at the museum Feb. 10-14 then will move to the Gov. Charles B. Aycock Birthplace Historic Site for a week, and finally to Moye Library at the University of Mount Olive.
Other programs related to the book will follow this event every Tuesday in February.
Those events are:
Book Discussion, Brown Bag Book Club – Wednesday, Feb. 11, Noon, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base Library
Tuesday Tasting with Ed Cogdell – Local Food in Practice – Tuesday, Feb. 17, 7 p.m., Ed’s Southern Foods and Spirits, Goldsboro (Due to limited space, participants will be chosen by drawings from attendees at each of the activities prior to it.)
“Exploring the Local FoodScape: An Evening of Agriculture” Panel Discussion featuring Dr. Sandy Maddox, Director of the University of Mount Olive Agri-Business Center, and Ed Olive, Assistant Director of the center – Tuesday, Feb. 24, 7 p.m., Moye Library, University of Mount Olive
Details about the events will be posted under the Wayne County Reads tab at www.wcpl.org.
All Wayne County Reads activities are free and open to the public with no registration required.
“Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” has won numerous prizes including the Book Sense Book of the Year Award and the James Beard Award for Writing and Literature. It can be borrowed from local library branches or purchased from the Wayne Community College Bookstore and Books-A-Million.
Since it started in 2004, Wayne County Reads’ selections have included “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, “Big Fish” by Daniel Wallace, “Night” by Elie Wiesel, “Walking Across Egypt” by Clyde Edgerton, “Blood Done Sign My Name” by Tim Tyson, “Blackbeard: America’s Most Notorious Pirate” by Angus Konstam, “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury, “Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace … One School at a Time” and “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan” by Greg Mortenson, “The Pleasure Was Mine” by Tommy Hays, “Bless Me, Ultima” by Rudolfo Anaya, and “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien.
The 2015 Wayne County Reads Partners are the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, Mount Olive College, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base Library, Wayne Community College, Wayne County Extension and Community Association, Wayne County Public Library System, Wayne County Public Schools, and many dedicated individuals.
For more information on Wayne County Reads, contact Tara Humphries at (919) 739-7002 or tarah@waynecc.edu.
Wayne Community College encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing accommodations or have questions about access, please contact the college’s Disability Services Counselor at (919) 739-6729 or lbcowan@waynecc.edu.
Wayne Community College is a public, two-year college with an open-door admission policy located in Goldsboro, N.C. As it works to develop a highly skilled and competitive workforce, it serves 14,000 individuals annually as well as businesses, industry and community organizations with high quality, affordable, accessible learning opportunities, including more than 100 college credit programs.
