Wayne Community College will hold two information sessions for anyone considering entering the allied health field. The hour-long meetings will be held at noon and 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 5 in Room 224 of the Pine Building on the college’s main campus in Goldsboro.
The presentation will cover career opportunities as well as WCC program expectations, financial aid options, and admissions criteria. The practical and associate degree nursing, dental hygiene and assisting, medical assisting, medical laboratory, pharmacy, and phlebotomy programs will be discussed. No advance registration is required.
Individual appointments are available for anyone who cannot attend these sessions.
For more information, contact Counselor Carl Brow at (919) 739-6727 or brow@waynecc.edu or Janet Grant in the Allied Health Department at (919) 739-6770 or jpgrant@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, 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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Wayne Community College will present a talk on the state of the world’s food supply as its World View talk next week.
Dr. John M. O’Sullivan will speak on “Global Food Issues Present and Future” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 27. The free public event will be held in Moffatt Auditorium in the Wayne Learning Center on the college’s main campus in Goldsboro.
O’Sullivan recently retired as professor of Sustainable Agriculture, Local and Community Food Systems at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and co-director of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems which is located in Goldsboro.
O’Sullivan’s lecture is provided by the college’s Cultural Diversity/Global Education Task Force and serves as the kickoff to the 2015 Wayne County Reads “Season of Reading.”
A dozen local food producers and agriculture-related organizations and agencies will have samples, information and displays set up in the Atrium outside of the auditorium for a half-hour before the talk and during the reception that will follow it.
The public can also view the “Lexicon of Sustainability,” a show of 24 “information artworks” that illustrate various concepts of sustainable agriculture. The works will be on display at the college Jan. 26-30 then will move to a new location in the county each week in February in this order: Wayne County Public Library in Goldsboro, Wayne County Museum, Gov. Charles B. Aycock Birthplace Historic Site, and Moye Library at the University of Mount Olive.
The book that the community reading program will explore in 2015 is Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver. Related programs will follow this event every Tuesday in February.
Those events are:
Book discussion with WCC English Instructor Liz Meador and WCC Agriculture Instructor Kathy Pfleger (mid-day) or WCC Agriculture and Natural Resources Department Chair Gabe Mitchell (evening) – Tuesday, Feb. 3, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., Weil Auditorium, Wayne Co. Public Library (A light lunch will be served at the 11 a.m. event. Participants should bring their own beverage.)
“A Seat at the Table: N.C. Farming and Foodways Then and Now” Panel Discussion with Cheryl Alston, Wayne Food Initiative; Marisa Benzle, Center for Environmental Farming Systems; June Hoyle, Wayne County Master Gardener; Gabe Mitchell, Wayne Community College; Jessica Strickland, Wayne County Cooperative Extension; and moderated by Shorlette Ammons, NC A&T State University/CEFS – Tuesday, Feb. 10, 7 p.m., Wayne County Museum
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 earlier events.)
“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, and Wayne County Public Schools.
For more information on the talk or Wayne County Reads, contact Tara Humphries at (919) 739-7002 or tarah@waynecc.edu. Contact Maria Cerra about the WCC Global Education/Cultural Diversity Task Force at (919) 739-6899 or mdcerra@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, 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.
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The Small Business Center at Wayne Community College is celebrating 30 years of providing support and assistance to small businesses and start-ups as a member of the Small Business Network of the North Carolina Community College System.
Created in 1984 when the North Carolina General Assembly funded 14 SBCs, the Small Business Center Network (SBCN) had expanded to include at least one SBC at each community college by 1995.
Today, with more than 60 sites, the Small Business Center Network has locations within a 30-minute drive of almost every North Carolinian. It is known as the most expansive state-funded technical small business assistance program in the United States.
Small Business Centers (SBCs) are located at each of the state’s 58 community colleges, providing confidential business counseling and seminars to small business owners and entrepreneurs. Each year, the centers assist in starting an average of 650 businesses and help create and retain more than 3,000 jobs.
“The Small Business Center at Wayne Community College could not be more excited to be moving forward with 30 successful years behind it,” said Charles Gaylor IV, the director of the center at Wayne Community College. “This longevity is a testament to the college, the community leadership, the past directors, and the economic prospects that are inherent in Wayne County, N.C.”
“Last academic year, the SBC at Wayne Community College kept more than 60 people employed in jobs that would have otherwise been cut, while simultaneously creating almost another 20. It also conducted 49 training events attended by over 470 people,” Gaylor said.
“The main mission of the SBC at Wayne Community College is to increase the number of viable businesses in Wayne County. Last academic year, almost 130 individuals received hands-on technical counseling from the SBC, resulting in 11 new businesses.”
The mission of the Small Business Centers is to increase the success rate and number of viable small businesses in North Carolina by providing high quality, readily accessible assistance to prospective and existing small business owners, with the goal of job creation and retention.
For more information on services or assistance with a concept or existing business, contact Gaylor at (919) 739-6941 or cpgaylor@waynecc.edu or go to www.wayneworksnc.com/.
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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Wayne Community College’s Upsilon Chi chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year colleges, has inducted 48 students into its membership in its fall 2014 ceremony.
Phi Theta Kappa members represent the top 10 percent of students enrolled in two-year schools. To be invited into the society, WCC students must show academic achievement with a minimum grade point average of 3.5. They must have completed at least 16 hours of associate degree course work and demonstrate good citizenship characteristics.
The new members and their majors are
Benson
Taylor Lee Sermersheim, Animal Science Technology
Cameron
Michael Carl Poole, Aviation
Clayton
Howard Gregory Parker, Aviation
Dudley
Billy Stanley Bye, Mechanical Engineering/Industrial Systems; and
Tot Reeves, Business Administration/Operations Management
Fremont
Joseph Landry Balance, Associate in Science and Associate in Arts; and
Deborah Lynn High, Business Administration
Goldsboro
John Anthony Baptista, Associate in Arts;
Katrina Sophie Bonenfant, Associate in Science;
Ashley Sarah Bundrick, Associate in General Education;
Collin Michael Cornelius, Associate in Science;
Christina Sharon Daniels, Associate Degree Nursing;
Amy Elizabeth Jordan, Associate in Science;
Samuel Curtis Langley, Medical Assisting;
Ashley Nicole Larimore, Associate in Science;
Johnny Rawie Martin, Associate in Science;
Brittany Marie Minahan, Associate in General Education;
Dayani Padma Mirihana, Medical Assisting;
Daniel Carl Ratliff, Mechanical Engineering;
Francis Ervin Rawson, Associate in Arts;
Kimberley Shanae Robinson, Accounting;
Samai M Saleh, Associate in Science;
Travis Christian Thaxton, Associate in Arts;
Cianna Elizabeth Wilson, Associate in Arts; and
Alice Meiyi Zhao, Associate in Arts and Associate in Science
Mount Olive
Michaela Gevay Agee, Associate in Science;
James Grant Kornegay, Associate in Arts; and
Jason Qin Wei Li, Associate in Science
Pikeville
Stephanie C. Dimatteo, Associate in Arts;
Kayleon Elizabeth Dortch, Associate in Arts;
Lisa D Freels, Associate in General Education;
Derrick R McGill, Aviation;
Victor Julius Prezbindowski, Associate in Arts;
Ashton Dale Rochelle, Aviation;
Kenneth Christopher Sanders, Aviation;
Jessica Nicole Skidmore, Associate in Science; and
Dylan Blake Smith, Associate in Arts
Princeton
Nathan Asher Tubb, Associate in Arts; and
Nolan Anson Tubb, Associate in Arts
Selma
Ashley Lee Owens, Associate in Arts
Seven Springs
Andrew Justin Hill, Associate in Arts;
Joseph E Howell, Mechanical Engineering;
Paola Ponce, Associate Degree Nursing; and
Daysi Marielly Ramirez, Associate in Arts
Snow Hill
Julia Rebecca Poole, Associate Degree Nursing
Warsaw
William Thomas Lovelace, Aviation; and
James Taiwan Morrisey, Electronics Engineering
Winterville
Joseph Wilson Butler, Emergency Management
Phi Theta Kappa recognizes and encourages scholarship by providing opportunities for the development of leadership and service, an intellectual climate, lively fellowship for scholars, and stimulation of interest in continuing academic excellence.
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, Miss., is the largest honor society in American higher education with 1,285 chapters on two-year and community college campuses in all 50 of the United States, plus Canada, Germany, the Republic of Palau, Peru, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the British Virgin Islands, the United Arab Emirates and U.S. territorial possessions. Nearly 3 million students have been inducted since its founding in 1918, with approximately 135,000 students inducted annually.
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.
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Wayne Community College’s Adult High School Program has honored six students for outstanding academic achievement in the second fall 2014 session.
Joseph A. Arunski and Austyn R. Edwards of Goldsboro and Heather A. Lassiter and Tony H. Lucas of Seven Springs were named to the Honors List. To be included on this list, students must have completed at least two courses in the session with a “B” or higher average.
Tammy N. Sheard of Goldsboro and Olivia J. Cox of Pikeville earned a spot on the Scholars List. To receive this honor, students must complete a minimum of two courses in the session with an “A” average.
The Adult High School at Wayne Community College in Goldsboro offers a tuition-free program of courses for adults 16 years or older who want to complete their high school education. It is one of several programs in the Basic Skills Department that address the needs of Wayne County’s adult residents with below-high school education levels or who lack basic skills necessary to function effectively in society.
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.
