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Pamlico CommunityHigher  PAMLICO COMMUNITY COLLEGEWell-nighPCC Admissions Programs Student ResourcesPolityContact UsWell-nighPCC Admissions Programs Student ResourcesPolityContact Us   News  Well-nighAccreditationWorkbenchof Trustees Employment Foundation Gainful EmploymentPowerlessnessServices & Accessibility Institutional Effectiveness Facilities, Safety & Security  Organizational Charts Our Mission & Vision President's Message Quality Enhancement Plan Consumer Information   News News News Archives President's Blog  Sense& Staff Employee Directory Maps & Directions   Table of Contents 2018 PCC's Welding Program Offers Lots of Options PCC Graduate Returns to Electrical Program PCC Summer Enrollment Continues Upward Trend Tuition-Free ClassesUnshuttoUpperSchoolers Burlington Woman Pursues Dream at PCC PCC Ranked No. 3 CommunityHigherin America by SmartAsset New Schedule Features Wide Range of Options Cosmetology, Esthetics to HostUnshutHouse Sale ofWendtoGoodyFoundation PCC's Study Abroad Team Returns from Overseas Middle Schoolers Enjoy PCC's STEM DayZanyHough Named PCI's Instructor of the Year ECUTry-onCreates Options for Students SmallMerchantryCenter Offers Advice, Support PCC to Offer STEM AdventureZanyfor Middle Schoolers Non-Profit Breakfast Draws aProdto PCC Study Abroad Team Off to the Far East Non-Profit Breakfast Set for May 31 at PCC PCC Presents Awards atPreludeOrientations Set forVitalSkills Classes Sixteen Inducted into Phi Theta KappaPreludeSet for May 11 at PCC Campus Cosmetology Grads Are Living Their Dreams PCC Students Take Part in Durham ConferenceUnconfinedTeamwork Leads to Enrollment Growth Promise Place to Offer Counseling on Campus New Director Hired for PCC's EDT Program PCC Lunch Encourages Student Interaction PCC Alumna Says She's Thrilled To BeWhenPCC Students Raise Money for Study Abroad Trip 'Library Junkie' Finds New Home at PCC Giles Brings Varied Experiences to Job Modest Leary Receives PCC President'sRibbonTwo Programs Team Up for Valentine's Offer EDT Student Travels from Texas to PCC You Can Sign Up for Online Courses at PCC Spring Semester Gets Underway at PCC PCC Adds Two Days to Registration Period   PCC's Welding Program Offers Lots of Options     September 7, 2018 Enrolling in one of PamlicoPolityCollege’s short-term Continuing Education courses is a unconfined way to develop job skills, explore a new career, find a hobby or just learn something new.   One of the college’s most popular Continuing Education offerings is Welding, where students learn the skills needed to join metal to metal through a variety of processes.   They moreover experiment with wearing and grinding metal and learn well-nigh important safety procedures.   PCC’s Continuing Education courses in Welding are taught by Instructor Joe Flynn, an experienced welder who moreover leads the college’s curriculum, or “for credit,” program in Welding.   “Welding is one of the college’s most versatile program options,” said PCC President Dr. Jim Ross. “We offer pathways for students to earn an associate’s stratum or multiple certificates in Welding. Students plane can start in upper school. We moreover offer a short-term Continuing Education option for men and women who want to try their hand at welding or who need to learn the skill for their current jobs. Whatever your reason for exploring our Welding program, we have a place for you at PCC.”   Welding jobs can be lucrative for people who attain upper levels of skill and experience.Equalto the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the stereotype hourly wage for a welder in 2017 was $20.87 per hour. The number of jobs in the field is expected to grow by 6 percent between now and 2026, equal to federal projections.   Flynn said jobs are misogynist virtually the world and tropical to home. Just this week, a student who was enrolled in the current Continuing Education undertow left to take a welding job in South Carolina, he said.   MiQuan Johnson of Alliance enrolled in the Continuing Education Welding undertow to see if he would be interested in pursuing it as a new career option.   “It takes a little increasingly patience than I thought,” he said, subtracting that he has enjoyed the matriculation so far and is considering enrolling in PCC’s curriculum program in Welding.   Ellyn Daly of Oriental enrolled in the matriculation considering she wants to learn how to create outdoor art from metal.   She described the matriculation as “harder and hotter” than she thought it would be, but she said she once has plans for her first welding project in mind: a snifter tree.   “I’ve got to learn how to do that,” Daly said with a chuckle.   Meanwhile, students Kenneth Smith of Stonewall and Danny Raynor of Oriental said they simply wanted to learn the skill. Both men are retired.   “All of us at the higher are here to help you reach your educational goals,” Ross said. “Contact us today to get started.”   For increasingly information PCC’s curriculum or Continuing Education courses in Welding, contact Joe Flynn at jflynn@pamlicocc.edu or at 252-249-1851, ext. 3058.  Whento Top   PCC Graduate Returns to Electrical Program     August 30, 2018 A former student has wilt the teacher in PamlicoPolityCollege’s Electrical Systems Technology program.   Larry Monk, a 2012 graduate of the program, began work Aug. 7 as its new instructor.   He comes to PCC without working at Hatteras/Cabo Yachts in New Bern, where he installed electrical equipment on high-end boats.   “It’s a unconfined opportunity,” the 41-year-old Pamlico County native said recently. “I’m ready. It’s going to be good.”   PCC’s Electrical Systems Technology program trains students to install and maintain electrical and electronics systems found in homes, businesses and industrial sites.   Coursework, most of which is hands-on, includes topics such as AC/DC theory, vital wiring practices, programmable logic controllers, industrial motor controls, applications of the National Electric Code and other subjects.   Students can earn an Associate ofUnromanticScience degree, and there are document options available.   Monk remembers stuff intrigued by electricity and electronic devices when he was a boy.   “I really liked that kind of thing,” he said. “I loved electronics. I loved putting things together.”   Monk went on to enroll at PCC and did well in the Electrical Systems Technology program. He now hopes to share his knowledge and skills with students and to show them the opportunities misogynist in the field.   “It’s a good trade to have,” he said. “A lot of people don’t do electrical work anymore.”   Monk said there is a quite a bit of math in the program, but he said the hands-on learning makes it an lulu option to potential students.   The lab where he teaches looks much the same as it did when he was a student, but there are several new pieces of sophisticated equipment that were not misogynist just a few years ago, including a three-dimensional printer, a robotic arm and a robot.   PCC leaders are excited well-nigh the future of the program.   “We are pleased that Larry Monk has joined our college’s faculty,” said PCC President Dr. Jim Ross. “His roots run deep in the community, and he has shown himself to be driven and very ruminative to detail. We are looking for unconfined things from him and the Electrical Systems Technology program.”   Monk and his wife have two foster children. They now live in New Bern.   For increasingly information well-nigh PCC’s Electrical Systems Technology program, contact Monk at lmonk@pamlicocc.edu or 252-249-1851, ext. 3029.  Whento Top   PCC Summer Enrollment Continues Upward Trend     August 27, 2018 Enrollment at Pamlico CommunityHighercontinues to trend dramatically upwards, thanks to a team-orientated tideway to registering students and an idealistic tideway to waffly people’s lives through higher education.   Final numbers for the Summer term showed enrollment at PCC grew by a remarkable 50 percent from last summer, when measured by Full-Time Equivalents, or FTE.   Summer’s tremendous growth followed similarly strong enrollment growth for the past two semesters. Enrollment for the Spring 2018 semester was up 13.1 percent from a year ago, while enrollment for the Fall 2017 semester grew by 6.4 percent, records show.   “These no-go increases are considering of the no-go teamwork we have ripened at our higher that has embraced a shared vision to make lives largest by increasing enrollment and increasing student success and making these priorities of our college,” said PCC President Dr. Jim Ross.   Nevertheless, he moreover cautions that enrollment growth is increasingly than numbers or trend lines. Instead, it’s a well-spoken signal that increasingly men and women are coming to PCC to make their lives better.   “By focusing on the human beings who will goody rather than the numbers, we unzip much greater success considering we are pursuing a noble cause. This changes the way we tideway every speciality of this,” Ross said. “By increasing enrollment so dramatically, that ways we are enabling many increasingly people in Pamlico County to modernize their lives through higher education, improving their families’ lives and improving their overall community.”   The president said the teamwork tideway to enrollment management begins with energetically making people enlightened of the college, its programs and the national recognition it has received in recent years.   PCC moreover has widow several new wonk programs with the goal of subtracting new opportunities for polity residents for outstanding careers that fit needs of regional employers.  Flipsidecomponent has been the establishment of strong relationships with the community. Ross decided nearly two years ago to waive rental fees at the college’s DelamarPart-wayfor all non-profit groups and causes. One result has been a 300 percent increase in polity residents coming on campus to shepherd events. The higher moreover hosted Non-profit Leadership Breakfasts in 2017 and 2018 to thank the non-profit organizations publicly for their work.   Finally, PCC staff members – including the president – have been persistent in making follow-up communications with new and returning students during registration periods. The goal is to make students enlightened of the help the higher can provide in making classes increasingly affordable and convenient.  Senseadvisors reached out to them, followed by department chairs, then Student Services staffers, and then the president himself.   Every effort has been made to prevent students who registered at PCC from stuff “purged,” which is a harsh term for removing students who have registered for courses but not paid from higher rolls.   Ross continues to praise the spirit of teamwork among higher employees. He not only says it has helped the higher grow enrollment and transpiration lives, it is reflected in PCC’s 2018 designation as the No. 3 polity higher in America by SmartAsset, a New York-based personal finance technology company. Pamlico is one of only two polity colleges in the nation to be recognized as one of the top three by SmartAsset two years in a row.  Whento Top   Tuition-Free ClassesUnshuttoUpperSchoolers     August 16, 2018 Pamlico CommunityHighercan help you get a upper quality higher education for a very affordable price. If you’re a upper school junior or senior, you don’t have to pay tuition at all!   Local students are eligible to take higher courses – tuition self-ruling – while they are in upper school, thanks to the N.C. Career &HigherPromise program.   The credits earned by passing the self-ruling courses offered by Pamlico CommunityHighercan be unromantic to an Associate in Arts stratum or Associate in Science stratum and can transfer to all public colleges and universities in North Carolina. Many of the state’s private colleges and universities winnow the transfer credits, too.   Taking college-level courses while in upper schools helps students get superiority in their studies and save money.   “I don’t think you can write-up free, transferrable higher courses from one of America’s most highly ranked polity colleges,” said PCC President Dr. Jim Ross. “Career &HigherPromise courses are one of the weightier things we offer at PamlicoPolityCollege. I strongly encourage upper school students and their parents to trammels out the program and see how it can help them.”   There are two Career &HigherPromise pathways:   •HigherTransfer Pathway (CTP) requires the completion of at least 30 semester hours of transfer    courses including English and mathematics.   • Career and Technical Education Pathway (CTE) leads to a document or diploma aligned with a upper    school career cluster.   Interested upper school students and their parents can learn increasingly well-nigh the Career &HigherPromise program by visiting PCC’s diner at Pamlico CountyUpperSchool’sUnshutHouse, which is set for Wednesday, Aug. 22, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the upper school.   Derek Godwin, PCC’s director of Career &HigherPromise, will be there to wordplay questions and explain the options misogynist to upper school students and their families.   “Career &HigherPromise at Pamlico CommunityHigheris an spanking-new opportunity for juniors and seniors at our zone upper schools to take higher courses and have transferrable credits when inward a two- or four-year higher or university,” he said. “This enables students to walk into the university setting with unstipulated education credits and be superiority in their program from Day 1. For career-minded students, this is an spanking-new opportunity to explore a career path and see if it’s the right fit for them surpassing going to higher or inward the workforce. And weightier of all, these Career &HigherPromise courses are free.”   Registration for upper school students who want to enroll in PCC courses will be held Aug. 27, 28 and 29 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the college’s Bayboro Center, which is located abreast the PCHS campus on N.C. 55.   Qualified juniors and seniors from Pamlico CountyUpperSchool, Arapahoe Charter School, Pamlico Christian Academy and local home schools are eligible to enroll in Career &HigherPromise courses.   For increasingly information well-nigh Career &HigherPromise, please contact Derek Godwin at 252-745-7349 or dgodwin@pamlicocc.edu.  Whento Top   Burlington Woman Pursues Dream at PCC     August 13, 2018 Kimberly Shoffner knows exactly what she wants to do with her life now, and Pamlico CommunityHigheris going to help her make it happen.   Shoffner crush increasingly than three hours from her home in Burlington last Wednesday to sign up for classes. Her goal is to enroll in the college’s Electroneurodiagnostic Technology (EDT) program and wilt qualified to self-mastery studies on patients’ smart-ass waves.   “This is my dream,” the 49-year-old said enthusiastically. “I’m passionate well-nigh it. I knew that I wanted to do this. I crush all the way here from Alamance County considering it’s so exciting!”   Shoffner’s passion for studying the smart-ass began without her 24-year-old son started suffering seizures as a child. He sooner was diagnosed with nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy.   Shoffner, who describes herself as a woman of unconfined faith, believes her experiences as the mother of a special needs child have prepared her for this new phase in her life.   “I did not segregate this path for myself,” she said. “I believe I can make a difference by using what I know and learning increasingly to help someone else.”   PCC is currently one of only two polity colleges in North Carolina offering an EDT program, and PCC is the only higher that offers its EDT associate’s stratum program entirely online. The program is accredited by the Commission onWarrantof Allied Health Education Programs and is headquartered in the college’s Delamar Center.   The program trains students to self-mastery sophisticated tests on the electrical waves in a patient’s smart-ass and spine. The tests can be essential in the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders.   Shoffner grew up in Alamance County and enjoyed a long career in local government wardship surpassing deciding to pursue her EDT degree. Her husband, who works for Norfolk Southern Railroad in train signal maintenance, has been very encouraging, plane joking that Shoffner soon will be employed in “brain signal maintenance.”   PCC President Dr. Jim Ross said Shoffner’s wits shows men and women can reinvent themselves and pursue their passions at any age.   “I salute Kimberly Shoffner for pursuing her dream of helping make other people’s lives better,” he said. “That’s our college’s primary mission. We’re here to help people modernize their lives and the lives of others.”  Withoutsigning up for classes Wednesday, Shoffner made the long momentum home to Burlington. In an email, she praised the college’s sense members and staff for their help.   “My enrollment wits at PCC far exceeded anything I could have hoped it would be,” Shoffner wrote. “Everyone was so helpful at PCC from the moment I stepped onto campus. Truly, everyone seemed to take as much joy in helping me navigate registration as I felt in stuff there to uncork my higher dream. I couldn’t be increasingly grateful for everyone’s participation in making this one of the most memorable days of my life.”   There’s still time to register for seated and online courses this semester. New and returning students can still register for seated courses as long as they sign up surpassing the first day of class, which is Monday, Aug. 20.   Meanwhile, students who are interested in online classes can sign up until the first day of matriculation for those web-based offerings, which is Wednesday, Aug. 29.   Contact the college’s Student Services staff members at 252-249-1851, ext. 3001, or at studentservices@pamlicocc.edu via email to discuss the options available.  Whento Top   PCC Ranked No. 3 CommunityHigherin America by SmartAsset     August 7, 2018 Pamlico CommunityHigherhas earned its latest national recognition as one of America’s peerage polity colleges. SmartAsset, a New York-based personal finance technology company, recently ranked Pamlico CommunityHigheras America’s third-best polity college.   SmartAsset’s list was based on federal data from 798 polity colleges from every state in America. The visitor used a combination of data from the NationalPart-wayfor Education Statistics’ Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System from the last two wonk years to rank colleges based on graduation/transfer rates, student-to-teacher ratios, and costs.   PCC received exemplary scores for its graduation/transfer rate of its students of 64 percent, which is 50 percent higher than the national stereotype of 42 percent; its student-instructor ratio of 9-to-1; and its restrictedly low forfeit and affordability, equal to SmartAsset.   “Last year’s top polity higher continues its tradition of stuff one of the weightier by taking the third spot in this year’s ranking,” a release from SmartAsset stated. “Affordability is a top priority for many polity higher attendees, and it’s tough to write-up Pamlico when it comes to price. The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System moreover reports that Pamlico has a student-to-faculty ratio of nine, so students studying here will have plenty of one-on-one time with their instructors.”   PCC President Dr. Jim Ross said he was excited the higher maintained a upper ranking among the nation’s weightier polity colleges, and he saluted current and former employees as stuff the reason for this unrenowned national achievement.   “We are extremely pleased with this news, and I requite total credit for this honor to the outstanding work of our sense and staff and our supportive community,” he said. “It is a unconfined honor to be ranked among the very weightier polity colleges for a second straight year. Most importantly, it shows our sense and staff members are providing no-go service helping students succeed so they can modernize their lives and the lives of their families.”   PCC is one of only three colleges in the U.S. to be listed in SmartAsset’s top five for both last year and this year. It is one of two colleges to be ranked in the top three both this year and last year.   Topping SmartAsset’s list this year was theHigherof Eastern Idaho, formerly known as Eastern Idaho Technical College. This year’s No. 2 spot went to James SpruntPolityCollege, which is located in Kenansville in nearby Duplin County. Then came Pamlico in this national ranking at No. 3.   “We congratulate both theHigherof Eastern Idaho and James Sprunt CommunityHigherfor their achievements,” Ross said. “We are particularly happy for our North Carolina CommunityHigherSystem colleagues at James Sprunt; Cape Fear; Montgomery; Roanoke-Chowan; and Western Piedmont, each of whom are rated in the top 10. These rankings indicate unmistakably that our state’s polity colleges are doing an outstanding job. I would have no reservations well-nigh suggesting students consider peekaboo any one of North Carolina’s 58 polity colleges, considering they are all excellent.”   News of PCC’s No. 3 ranking by SmartAsset comes just days surpassing registration for the Fall 2018 semester gets underway. It moreover comes tween several other state and national honors PamlicoPolityCollege’s has received in recent years.   Most notably, the Aspen Institute named PCC to its 2018-19 prestigious list of 150 peerage polity colleges in America and invited the higher to wield for its $1 million Aspen Prize.   The higher moreover has been recognized for its online stratum offerings.   “An important part of receiving any of the national recognitions we are receiving is that these recognize our current and past employees, some of the most defended and caring I have overly known, and advances our wonderful Pamlico County. Most importantly, it lets our citizens know they can enroll in our higher and receive an no-go education, as documented by national sources, and hopefully encourages many to transpiration their life for the largest by coming to indulge us to serve them.” Ross said. “We invite our local citizens to contact us today to learn well-nigh enrolling at Pamlico CommunityHigherfor this fall semester to indulge us to partner with them to help them transpiration their lives for the better.”   For increasingly information well-nigh enrolling at PamlicoPolityCollege, undeniability 252-249-1851, ext. 3001.  Whento Top       New Schedule Features Wide Range of Options     July 30, 2018 Pamlico CommunityHigherhas unveiled a 32-page booklet that offers men and women a multitude of learning opportunities for the upcoming five months.   The Fall 2018UndertowSchedule includes a comprehensive squint at the curriculum and Continuing Education courses and programs the higher plans to offer between now and December.   A link to the schedule has been posted on the college’s website –http://www.pamlicocc.edu/pdf/PamlicoCCschedule_Fall2018.pdf – and printed copies of the document are in the mail.  Higherleaders say the fall 2018UndertowSchedule is a helpful tool for people who are looking to learn what they need to modernize their lives.   “This semester’sUndertowSchedule is the largest we have produced in recent years,” said PCC President Dr. Jim Ross. “It is teeming with innovative curriculum courses and programs for students who are looking to start a career and for those who want to well-constructed their first two years of a four-year degree. It moreover features an enhanced slate of Continuing Education classes for people looking to proceeds spare job skills. I encourage everyone to requite the booklet a look.”   The release of the fall 2018UndertowSchedule comes well-nigh two weeks surpassing PCC’s registration period for the fall 2018 semester. The registration period is set for Aug. 8 and 9 from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the JohnsonTowerson campus.   However, plane surpassing the formal registration period begins, PCC leaders are encouraging new and returning curriculum students to contact the higher now so they can be prepared to register for classes on Aug. 8 and 9.   “New students can go superiority and well-constructed their applications and speak with Financial Aid and others so they can enroll at PCC surpassing the registration period,” Ross said. “Returning students are welcome to reach out to their advisors or Student Services and preregister for curriculum classes.”  Moreoverin the undertow schedule is information well-nigh PCC’s Career andHigherPromise program, which offers self-ruling higher classes to upper school students, including those at Pamlico CountyUpperSchool, Arapahoe Charter School, Pamlico Christian Academy and home-schoolers.   Meanwhile, PCC’s Continuing Education semester has assembled an impressive slate of courses and programs for the upcoming semester. These short-term classes are designed to train men and women for new careers or to help them move up in their current positions.   A featured zone in Continuing Education is Health Occupations, which features popular classes in Nurse Aide and Phlebotomy. Other Continuing Education topic areas include Business, Construction, Horticulture, Hospitality, Marine Trades, Public Safety and others.   TheUndertowSchedule includes information well-nigh the college’s SmallMerchantryCenter, which has planned a series of offerings for current and aspiring entrepreneurs. There is moreover information on the college’s Career Center, which can help people find jobs, and PCC’sHigherand Career Readiness/Basic Skills area, which is single-minded to helping men and women build their wonk skills and earn their GEDs.   The undertow schedule moreover features a semester-long listing of the college’s popular Cultural & Life Enrichment classes. These classes are a unconfined way to learn something new, meet some new friends and have some fun.   “We are extremely excited well-nigh the start of the new semester, and this undertow schedule shows we have a lot to offer,” Ross said. “I encourage everyone to trammels it out and see how PCC can help them reap the skills they need to modernize their lives.”   For increasingly information well-nigh getting prepared for registration, contact the higher at studentservices@pamlicocc.edu or 252-249-1851, ext. 3001, or waif by the campus at 5049 N.C. 306 South in Grantsboro!  Whento Top   Cosmetology, Esthetics to HostUnshutHouse     July 19, 2018 PamlicoPolityCollege’s Cosmetology and Esthetics programs will host anUnshutHouse for prospective students and polity members on Saturday, July 28, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.   The self-ruling event, which will take place at the PCC CosmetologyTowerslocated at 703 Main St. in Bayboro, will include demonstrations of the latest hair styling and verisimilitude methods.   Over in the Esthetics area, hydrotherapy will be featured.   Most importantly, prospective students and others will get an opportunity to meet the programs’ sense members, tour the facility and ask questions.   “The unshortened polity is invited to stop by our CosmetologyTowersin Bayboro and meet our outstanding sense members and students,” said PCC President Dr. Jim Ross. “We are proud of our Cosmetology and Esthetics programs. They protract to produce talented graduates who go on to have outstanding careers in our community’s highly regarded salons.”   This year’sUnshutHouse comes just days surpassing the college’s Fall 2018 registration period, which is set for Aug. 8 and 9 at PCC’s main campus in Grantsboro. It moreover follows an extremely successfulUnshutHouse the programs hosted last July.   “Last year’s event was a unconfined success, so we wanted to follow up this year,” said Cosmetology Instructor Debi Fulcher, who will host the event with fellow Cosmetology Instructor Christy Laney and Esthetics Instructor Shanna Lewis.   Lewis said theUnshutHouse was a unconfined way to spread the word well-nigh the two hands-on programs.   PCC offers both a diploma and a document program in Cosmetology. Both programs can be completed in four semesters.   The college’s Esthetics program offers a document option that can be completed in two semesters.   Both programs full-length small matriculation sizes and individualized attention. Also, upper school juniors are eligible to uncork the programs plane surpassing they graduate.   Graduates of the programs are eligible to test for their respective state licenses and to embark on a career path that can be both potentially lucrative and personally satisfying.   For increasingly information well-nigh theUnshutHouse, contact Fulcher, Laney or Lewis at 252-745-5537. Their email addresses are dfulcher@pamlicocc.edu, claney@pamlicocc.edu and slewis@pamlicocc.edu.  Whento Top   Sale ofWendtoGoodyFoundation     July 12, 2018 Attention, wooden wend enthusiasts: Pamlico CommunityHigherFoundation (PCCF) recently took receipt of a just-built traditional Carolina skiff and it could soon be yours!   The 17-foot Bateau-style skiff, or “skimmer,” was built in well-nigh two days during the Oriental Rotary Club’s yearly wend show in April by renowned Harkers Island wend builder Heber Guthrie.   The Rotary Club, which once supports the higher through scholarships and an emergency fund for students, donated the wend to the Foundation last week. The club had raffled the wend off, and the winner graciously donated it when to Rotary.   The Foundation is offering the wend for sale, with proceeds going toward scholarships and education enhancement projects for deserving PCC students.   “We profoundly fathom the no-go partnership Oriental Rotary Club has maintained with the higher over the years”, said PCC President Dr. Jim Ross. “Their exemplary record of polity service in this county should be an inspiration to all citizens.”   Guthrie built the wend using the traditional “rack of the eye” method. It is a centuries-old technique of towers vessels without formal written plans, schematic drawings or blueprints. The builder envisions what the consumer wants the wend for, and the vision is translated by the builder’s hands into a finished boat.   Each wend is a true one-off; no two are exactly alike.   Guthrie is a familiar squatter virtually the water. In wing to volunteering for Oriental Rotary and other societal groups, his boat-building talents are supported by the N.C. Coastal Heritage Association, which seeks to preserve the traditional coastal way of life.   Guthrie built the Foundation’s donated skiff out of spruce and pine. It is joined with stainless steel screws and a polyurethane sealant.   “This wend is a beauty,” says Foundation Executive Director Michelle Noevere. “It can be powered by a 25-horse engine and is a perfect little day boat. This is an opportunity to own a unique piece ofLanugoEast culture crafted by a renowned wend builder.”   The Foundation is offering the wend for sale as is.   “It will need a good sanding and two or three coats of primer and paint to finish it,” Noevere said.  Increasinglyinformation well-nigh the boat, including its asking price and a time-lapse video of the wend under construction (produced by Keith Smith of TownDock) can be found at http://www.pamlicocc.edu/about-foundation.php.   For spare information, contact Michelle Noevere at 252-249-1851, ext. 3084, or mnoevere@pamlicocc.edu.  Whento Top     PCC's Study Abroad Team Returns from Overseas     July 9, 2018 PamlicoPolityCollege’s globetrotting team has returned from a month-long, life-changing trip to the Philippines.   While in the Pacific island nation, PCC Environmental Science Instructor Zac Schnell and four students – Francisco Arreol-Muro, Jenny Mills, Anthony Raisch and Aaron Royal – planted trees, visited cities and farms, explored remote locations, swam with giant sea turtles, spoke to higher students and met dozens of new friends.   “Overall it was a unconfined trip,” Schnell said, subtracting that the students enjoyed stuff immersed in Filipino life and culture.   The students moreover got valuable hands-on wits that helped them develop the skills needed to implement environment-enhancing plans and projects.   “I am very happy our students had this fantastic opportunity to learn well-nigh flipside country,” said PCC President Dr. Jim Ross. “Very few polity colleges are worldly-wise to send students halfway virtually the world. I then salute Zac Schnell for his leadership on this would-be project, and I thank everyone in our generous polity who helped make it possible.”   Schnell conceived of the Study Abroad initiative last year. He had spent two years in the Philippines as a member of the Peace Corps, and the contacts he ripened there were hair-trigger to putting the trip together.   The 21-hour journey to the Philippines began on May 24 at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.   When the team members arrived in Manila, they soon discovered they had traded a warm, moist climate in sunny North Carolina for an plane warmer, increasingly moist climate in the Far East.   PCC group members spent most of the trip in the Romblon province, where they assisted with fieldwork and environmental projects. They started on Romblon Island and then moved on to Tablas Island.   They visited the towns of Odiongan and Ferrol, where they saw a mangrove forest – well-constructed with bamboo walkways – and took part in a huge fiesta.   They moreover met local leaders and offered a presentation on their trip and environmental stewardship to students at Romblon State University.   Raisch said he was impressed by the Filipinos’ efforts to reduce waste.   “I love how they recycle and reuse so much of their glass and plastic,” he said. “The waste is minimal. I learned so much well-nigh their culture and how they love their country.”  Moreoveron the trip, team members swam in the well-spoken Pacific Ocean with sea turtles and explored a cave. They moreover wonted invitations to some birthday parties and got to enjoy fresh coconuts and schizy with a sublet family, where they moreover learned how to produce copra from coconuts.   Near the end of the trip, the five PCC ambassadors visited the Manila American Cemetery, where 17,000 people who died during World War II are buried. They moreover did some shopping at a huge indoor-outdoor market ramified surpassing whence the long trip when to North Carolina.   They returned early on the morning of June 25.   The students said the trip reverted their perspectives on many things, including life in the United States.   “It was a completely eye-opening wits to see and be involved in a completely variegated culture that is variegated than our own,” Mills said. “The people there live such simple lives with not very much and yet they offer so much through their kindness and generosity and they are happy with what they have. It has definitely given me a new outlook on life.”   Royal said he was grateful he was worldly-wise to take such a trip.   “The trip was something that reverted my perspective of the world, completely,” Royal said. “Never would I have thought that someone like me from Pamlico would have a endangerment at something like this.”   Schnell hopes to alimony the momentum from the trip going, subtracting that he’d like to see the higher undertake increasingly Study Abroad trips.   He says the group is planning a public presentation soon as well as a video documentary well-nigh the trip by the students that will be posted online. Team members moreover will be posting spare photos and videos from their trip on the college’s Facebook page, which is misogynist at https://www.facebook.com/pamlicocc/   For increasingly information, contact Schnell at zschnell@pamlicocc.edu or 252-249-1851, ext. 3115.  Whento Top     Middle Schoolers Enjoy PCC's STEM DayZany    July 2, 2018 Twenty Pamlico County middle schoolers recently spent a week learning well-nigh science-related subjects and having a unconfined time.   The students took part in PamlicoPolityCollege’s first “Under the Sea” STEMVentureDay Camp.   The four-day event, which was funded by a $4,000 grant from Duke Energy, included field trips and in-class activities designed to stimulate students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and math.   “We’ve had a good time, and we’ve had a good group,” said PCC Instructor Derek Godwin, who organized the day camp. “We really wanted to enrich the lives of Pamlico County middle school students and create interest in STEM-related courses and careers. Thanks to Duke Energy, we were worldly-wise to offer a self-ruling day zany with a lot of fun hands-on activities.”   The day zany was based at the college’s Bayboro Center, but most of the activities took place yonder from it.   On Monday, the group visited Sand Dollar Island in Carteret County to explore the ecosystem there. Tuesday’s worriedness was a daylong trip to the N.C. Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores, where students got a behind-the-scenes tour and a endangerment to see how the facility’s staff members superintendency for fish and wildlife.  MoreoverTuesday, the group placid clams and venereal in an zone of the sound.   A trip to the Aurora Fossil Museum and an afternoon classroom worriedness coordinated by the N.C. BioNetwork headlined Wednesday’s activities, while Thursday’s highlight was a trip to East Carolina University to see artifacts from the shipwreck of the Queen Anne’s Revenge.   PCC President Dr. Jim Ross said he was pleased that the day zany was a success.   “We were happy to be worldly-wise to host this heady week of activities to local middle school students,” he said. “We are extremely grateful for the generous support of Duke Energy, which enabled the higher to offer this zany without forfeit to parents. I know everyone involved has enjoyed a very rented week.”   The 20 participating students came from Pamlico County Middle School and the Arapahoe Charter School.   PCC student Aaron Royal, who recently returned from a month-long college-sanctioned Study Abroad trip to the Philippines, assisted with the camp.Moreoverhelping were Szonja Nemes, a rising freshman at Western Carolina University, plus teacher Elizabeth Harwick, teacher assistant/bus suburbanite Kimberly Whitfield and parent-chaperone LoriAnn Dunn.   Godwin plans to seek grant funding for a similar STEM day zany next year.  Whento Top     Hough Named PCI's Instructor of the Year     June 21, 2018 Kim Hough is an extremely positive, helpful person who unchangingly has a smile on her face, equal to Pamlico CommunityHigherVice President of Instructional Services Michelle Willis.   “She’s fair, honest and professional,” said Willis, who is Hough’s supervisor.   The always-pleasant Hough, who teaches PCC AdultVitalEducation classes at Pamlico Correctional Institution in Bayboro, is the college’s 2018 Instructor of the Year at the prison.   She received the award, which is voted on by student offenders, during the yearly graduation recurrence held at the prison June 20.   “Kim Hough is a wonderful person who does an outstanding job,” said PCC President Dr. Jim Ross. “She brings out the weightier in students, and they unmistakably fathom her kindness and transferral to their success.”   Hough works with a matriculation of well-nigh 10 offenders four days a week helping them to master English and math so they can go on to earn their upper school equivalency.   She says she enjoys the work, despite the unusual surroundings.   “I have several students who have learning disabilities and I have some who are just as smart as they can be,” Hough said recently. “It’s really rewarding considering you can see the students’ progress.”   She said she never planned to be an educator, and she never imagined she would find her professional calling overdue bars.   Hough grew up in Wake County and earned a bachelor’s stratum from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1990.Withoutmoving to Pamlico County in 1994, she took a part-time job as a GED instructor at PCC.   When a full-time position became misogynist in 2003, Hough was intrigued, plane though the job was to teach offenders in the local prison.   “I went into the prison and I was like, ‘this is fine. I can do this,’” she said.   PCC operates the largest prison education program in North Carolina. In wing to vital education and upper school equivalency classes, the higher offers vocational training, entrepreneurship and other courses that are designed to help offenders learn the skills they need to be successful and productive without they’re released.   Hough said her students are often very attentive, punctual and eager to learn.   “They stun themselves at what they can do,” she said, subtracting she unchangingly tries to treat the men with respect.   “Everybody’s got something that you like well-nigh them,” Hough said. “These guys are no different. They’ve just made mistakes and are paying for it.”   Hough’s selection as Instructor of the Year was a popular one with the offenders. Nearly all of them at the graduation recurrence cheered without her name was announced, with one offender shouting, “You deserve it.”   Hough says she was surprised and humbled by the honor.   “It ways a lot, and it will alimony me going for the next 10 years,” she said with a chuckle.  Whento Top   ECUTry-onCreates Options for Students   East Carolina University Chancellor Dr. Cecil Staton signs the university’s co-admission try-on with PamlicoPolityCollege. Photo courtesy of ECU June 14, 2018 Full-time students who well-constructed an associate’s stratum at Pamlico CommunityHigherwill be worldly-wise to transfer seamlessly to East Carolina University under a new co-admission try-on tried recently by both institutions.   Under the agreement, interested students will wield to PCC and ECU simultaneously. As long as they commit to maintaining full-time status (12 credit hours) at PCC, they will be guaranteed ticket to ECU and will be worldly-wise to transition into a university bachelor’s stratum program without they well-constructed their associate’s stratum here.   Participating PCC students moreover will be eligible to receive joint wonk recommending and financial aid counseling, and they will have wangle to ECU’s libraries, student activities and other benefits.   Perhaps most importantly, ECU co-admission participants will save an unscientific $43,000 in tuition, fees and other financing by completing their first two years of higher at PCC, equal to the university.   PCC President Dr. Jim Ross said the ECU try-on builds on the college’s transferral to offering affordable, upper quality educational options for students.   “I’m very pleased that our higher is participating in this co-admission agreement,” he said. “We take pride in providing our students with a range of learning pathways to meet their needs. This innovative tideway with ECU will requite students flipside lulu option to consider, and it will enable participants who segregate this pathway to well-constructed a bachelor’s stratum tropical to home and with a tremendous forfeit savings.”   PCC is one of 14 zone polity colleges participating in the ECU agreement, which was spoken older this month.   PCC Instructor Neil Callahan, who moreover advises university transfer students at the college, is excited well-nigh the new try-on with ECU and the avenues it opens for students. As a parent, he moreover is intrigued by the projected forfeit savings.   “For upper school students in Pamlico County looking to shepherd East Carolina University, this is a wonderful opportunity,” Callahan said. “Students and their families can save tens of thousands of dollars by completing a transferable, two-year stratum at Pamlico CommunityHigherfirst surpassing transferring to East Carolina to well-constructed their bachelor’s degree. PCC stratum programs such as the Associate in Arts and Associate in Sciences are well suited for this purpose.”   The new co-admission program is expected to uncork this fall. News of it comes just a few weeks surpassing the registration period for the fall 2018 semester begins at PCC. It is set for Aug. 8 and 9 from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.   “This is precisely the sort of collaboration we need to largest serve the people of North Carolina and the east in particular,” ECU Chancellor Dr. Cecil Staton said in a statement. “We cannot be successful and protract to produce capable and engaged citizens who will go out wideness the communities of this state and make a difference if we don’t have a vital partnership with our polity higher system.”   Ross embraced the spirit of the agreement.   “We are proud of our partnerships with this state’s universities considering we know it helps to make lives largest for our students and our neighbors,” he said. “This co-admission try-on is a welcome step to increasing wangle to education for the residents of our community.”   In a statement well-nigh the co-admission agreement, ECU Provost Dr. Ron Mitchelson said: “Our most fundamental goal is to make higher ubiety a far less daunting endeavor for these students who might not think that going to higher is within their reach. In particular we want these students to understand that the polity college/university pathway is very forfeit constructive and to ensure that the transfer from the polity higher to the university is relatively seamless.”   For increasingly information well-nigh registering at PCC, please undeniability Student Services at 252-249-1851, ext. 3001, or visit www.pamlicocc.edu.  Whento Top     SmallMerchantryCenter Offers Advice, Support     June 7, 2018 Mindy Moore wants to talk merchantry with you.   Moore is the new director of PamlicoPolityCollege’s SmallMerchantryCenter, which is located overdue the college’s BayboroPart-wayoff N.C. 55.   The Ohio native took on the job in January without working as an instructor at the higher for nearly a decade.   “I’m learning all the time,” Moore said recently. “But I know what small businesses are about.”   PCC’s SmallMerchantryCenter is part of a network of state-supported, polity college-based centers designed to help entrepreneurs turn their ideas into thriving enterprises.   The part-way offers self-ruling confidential counseling to aspiring and current merchantry owners. It moreover offers a self-ruling series of cadre classes each year focusing on essential merchantry topics such as financing, market research, taxes and writing a merchantry plan.   Moore is no stranger to business. She owned and operated her own computer repair and tutoring visitor for well-nigh five years. The business, tabbed “PC Specialists,” was based in Pamlico County, she said.  Surpassingmoving to the Southeast in the 1980s, Moore worked in data entry and computer operations for the state of Ohio.  Withoutliving in Raleigh and Atlanta, she arrived in Pamlico County virtually 1988 and enrolled at PCC, receiving an written certificate.   Moore would return to school years later, earning her associate’s stratum from Pamlico in BusinessWardshipin 2008 and her bachelor’s stratum in BusinessWardshipfrom Mount OliveHigherin 2010.   At well-nigh the same time, Moore came to work as an office systems and computer instructor at PCC. It was at the higher where she got to know former SmallMerchantryCenter Director Jerry Prescott, who was both a colleague and a professional mentor.   “I worked very closely with Jerry Prescott, so I knew what the job was about,” she said.   When the post became unshut recently, Moore was a natural choice.   “Mindy Moore has hit the ground running as the new SmallMerchantryCenter director,” said PCC President Dr. Jim Ross. “She is an enthusiastic, caring person who wants to help people ventilator their dreams and find success. In addition, she is one of the most positive and uplifting people I have overly met.”   Moore said she sometimes has to tenancy her excitement when a vendee comes in to her office with an idea for a new business.   “They inspire me,” she said. “When someone walks in with a unconfined idea, I think to myself, ‘that sounds awesome!’ I can’t help it.”   In wing to offering one-on-one counseling and cadre courses on merchantry development, the SmallMerchantryCenter hosts self-ruling seminars on topics such as grant writing and using social media to build businesses.   The next seminars are scheduled for Saturday, June 16. The first one, which is set to run from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., will focus on using Instagram. The day’s second seminar, scheduled to run from noon to 2 p.m., will be on the Adobe Spark software.   Consultant Christina Williams will teach both seminars.   Moore moreover says she plans to revive the “roundtables” for small merchantry owners to meet for short presentations and discussions.   “We will meet at several variegated places throughout the county,” she said.   The SmallMerchantryCenter’s services are not just for start-ups, Moore said. The information is moreover relevant to operators of existing businesses and for the non-profit sector, she said.   Moore is moreover unshut to new ideas and suggestions.   “If you have any suggestions well-nigh what you’d like to learn about, just requite me a undeniability and let me know,” she said. “I’m there for everybody. I love this county.”   To contact Moore, please undeniability 252-745-7348 or email her at mmoore@pamlicocc.edu.  Whento Top     PCC to Offer STEM AdventureZanyfor Middle Schoolers     June 6, 2018 Applications are stuff wonted for PamlicoPolityCollege’s “Under the Sea” STEM AdventureZanyfor middle school students.   The day zany is unshut to rising sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders. It is scheduled for June 25-28 and is funded through a generous grant from Duke Energy.   Registration is self-ruling with limited space available. PCC hopes to alimony the zany small so the instructors will be worldly-wise to devote zaftig one-on-one sustentation to each student.   Parents are highly encouraged to submit a well-constructed using as early as possible. (Incomplete applications will not be considered.)   A well-constructed using includes: (1) ParticipantUsingForm; and (2) Parent Consent Form.   Mail or unhook well-constructed using to: PamlicoPolityCollege, Attn: Derek Godwin, P.O. Box 185, Grantsboro, NC 28529.   You are unchangingly welcome to unhook the material directly to Derek Godwin at the Bayboro Center, 701 Main St., in Bayboro. All using materials are due by June 19, 2018.   For increasingly information, contact Derek Godwin at 252-745-7349 or dgodwin@pamlicocc.edu.   STEMZanyApplication and Parent Consent Form    Whento Top   Non-Profit Breakfast Draws aProdto PCC     June 4, 2018 In an inspirational event that exceeded all expectations for attendance, 150 polity leaders came together in a spirit of triumph at the second yearly Pamlico CommunityHigherNon-profit Leadership Breakfast held May 31 at PCC’s Delamar Center.  Increasinglythan 60 organizations were represented at the uplifting and informative event, which brought together non-profit groups ranging from local churches and emergency responders to societal clubs, supplies banks and health clinics.   PCC President Dr. Jim Ross conceived of the event last year as a way to recognize and honor non-profit organizations in Pamlico County and to thank them for the important work they do to make lives largest here.   “First of all, thank you,” he said in his opening remarks. “We have people here who are doing so much good in so many ways.”   Event participants enjoyed a complimentary breakfast and got a endangerment to interact with friends old and new and discuss potential partnerships.   “It was a wonderful event,” said Sherwood Crawford, resource minutiae and marketing coordinator for the New Bern-based United Way of Coastal Carolina. “This opportunity allows those of us in the non-profit world a endangerment to network and to learn increasingly well-nigh the efforts of our friends and neighbors in Pamlico County. It was a truly eye-opening and heartwarming occasion.”  Withoutbreakfast was served, PCCPolityLiving student Sarah Vieregge kicked off the event by singing “The Star-Spangled Banner.”  Pursuitsome remarks by the president, representatives of each non-profit group in ubiety came forward to introduce themselves and to share information well-nigh their work.   “I’m learning so much today, and I think we’re all inspired by what we’re hearing today,” Ross told the crowd.   As he had washed-up last year, Brantley Norman Jr. of Brantley’s Village Restaurant donated $150 of his catering fee to a non-profit group in attendance. An unrecognized donor widow $25 to the pot, and the winner of the combined $175 was chosen by raffle.   John Hyde ofZanySea Gull had the winning ticket, but decided to donate the $175 to the college. Ross formally presented the money to the PCC Foundation, which will use it for student scholarships.   Non-profit leaders said this year’s event was both a source of encouragement and an opportunity to learn increasingly well-nigh the community.   “It was heartwarming to hear of all the good work stuff washed-up in the county by so many non-profits,” said Dottie Osmun, president of the Ol’ Front Porch Music Festival. “Having the opportunity to gather and hear of each other’s work was very educational and beneficial.”   Betsy Hughes, steering director for Girls on the Run of Pamlico County, said the event was “an appreciated step in establishing an undercurrent of collaboration among the dozens of Pamlico County non-profits and a tasty culinary venue to meet new like-minded polity members.”    Whento Top   Study Abroad Team Off to the Far East     May 24, 2018 Pamlico CommunityHigherhas gone international.   The college’s first-ever Study Abroad trip got underway Thursday (May 24) when PCC Environmental Science Instructor Zac Schnell and four students – Francisco Arreol-Muro, Jenny Mills, Anthony Raisch and Aaron Royal – topside a plane at Raleigh-Durham International Airport to uncork the 21-hour journey to the Philippines.   The month-long trip to the Pacific island nation is designed to requite the students valuable hands-on wits in Environmental Science and to help them develop the skills needed to implement environment-enhancing plans and projects.   Participants moreover will learn how to work with people unlike themselves and will wits the culture of a afar part of the world.   “The students are ready for it,” Schnell said surpassing the team left. “Through our Study Abroad orientation sessions, they have wilt enlightened of what’s to come.”   While in the Philippines, the group will be living and working on two islands in the Romblon province, where they will be conducting fieldwork and profitable with projects. Plans undeniability for the group to squire two municipalities, a non-profit group and a university with their efforts to preserve and protect the islands’ tropical environment.   The group is scheduled to return on June 24th.   “This promises to be a wonderful wits for our students,” said PCC President Dr. Jim Ross. “I am thrilled they have this opportunity to learn well-nigh flipside country and to interact with people in flipside part of the world. I salute Zac Schnell for his leadership on this initiative, and I thank everyone who has supported it through their donations and good wishes.”   This trip is a Douglas MacArthur-esque “return” to the Philippines for Schnell. The 29-year-old Wilmington native spent two years there working on coastal management projects as a member of the Peace Corps.   “I’m super-excited to go back,” said Schnell, who lived in the Philippines from 2012 to 2014. “I expect I will see some changes that have taken place there, but I moreover expect it has retained its distinctive undercurrent and culture.”   The contacts he ripened there have been hair-trigger to his nearly yearlong effort to launch a Study Abroad program for PCC students.   Schnell said the accommodations will be simple, and there will be times when he and the students will not have wangle to the internet, air workout or, on occasion, electricity. He said they’ll be eating unusual foods from time to time and will hear a lot of Tagalog, which is one of the worldwide languages spoken in the Philippines.   Schnell hopes to alimony the momentum from the trip going, subtracting that he’d like to see the higher undertake increasingly Study Abroad trips.   “I hope this gains unbearable ground to protract something in the future,” he said.   Schnell and the students moreover said they were very well-pleased of the financial support the effort had received from the community, and they invited everyone to follow their Far East venture through video links and photos that will be posted on the college’s website and Facebook page.   “Please stay informed on what’s going on and stay unfluctuating with what we’ll be doing over there,” Schnell said.   The college’s website is www.pamlicocc.edu and the college’s Facebook page is www.facebook.com/pamlicocc/    Whento Top     Non-Profit Breakfast Set for May 31 at PCC     May 17, 2018 Pamlico CommunityHigherPresident Dr. Jim Ross has brought a strong weighing that the college’s role is to serve our polity in every way possible to make it better. This has resulted in a rapid-fire list of upbringing that are transforming Pamlico County into a largest place in which to live.   One example is occurring now as PCC staffers are finalizing plans for the second yearly Non-profit Leadership Breakfast, which is set for Thursday, May 31, at the DelamarPart-wayon campus.   The event, in which representatives from every Pamlico County non-profit group are invited, will uncork at 8 a.m. with a meet-and-greet session.   A complimentary breakfast will be served whence at 8:30 a.m.   Ross conceived of the event last year as an opportunity to honor non-profit groups in Pamlico County and to thank them for everything they do to modernize lives here.   “Non-profit organizations do indispensable work here and in every other community, yet they seldom get the recognition they deserve,” he said. “This event is an opportunity for the polity to come together and honor these organizations for the unconfined work they do to transpiration and plane save local citizens’ lives.”  Ubietyexceeded all expectations last year as 70 organizations ranging from local churches and volunteer fire departments to service organizations, supplies banks and health clinics took part.   This year’s event originally was scheduled for May 24, but was moved to May 31 considering a non-profit organization had reserved PCC’s DelamarPart-wayfor an event for May 24.   “That certainly illustrates how our polity is embracing its use of the DelamarPart-wayand the need,” Ross said with a chuckle. “About two years ago, we waived the Delamar Center’s rental fees for all Pamlico County non-profit groups and causes. As a result, the towers has seen an no-go increase in use.Planethough we had settled on a preferred stage for our breakfast several months surpassing the event, flipside group had reserved it plane earlier. Rather than tumor a group that had requested it surpassing we had, we reverted our proposed stage to the 31st.”   PCC is inviting each organization’s executive director and members of its governing workbench to shepherd the event. The higher can unbend up to five people from each group.  Withoutbreakfast, the executive director of each organization will be invited to speak for well-nigh a minute on the work it does to modernize people’s lives in Pamlico County. Participants moreover can share a highlight or information well-nigh a project from the previous year.   The higher will have a photographer misogynist to take a picture of each group.   Participants will not be pressured to speak. Dress for the event will be merchantry casual, and the higher anticipates it will conclude virtually 11 a.m.   Organizations that plan to shepherd the event are asked to RSVP by noon on Friday, May 25. You can contact PCC Director of Public Affairs Sandy Wall at swall@pamlicocc.edu or 252-249-1851, ext. 3010. Be sure to state the name of your organization and the names of each member of your group who is coming.   The higher has made efforts to invite representatives of all Pamlico County non-profit groups. If you believe your organization has been overlooked, please contact Wall.   “I am extremely proud that this is one of the college’s signature events,” Ross said. “We want to gloat our non-profit organizations and thank them profusely for the life-changing services they provide. All of us are looking forward to it.”    Whento Top       PCC Presents Awards atPrelude    May 14, 2018 Pamlico CommunityHigherpresented its most prestigious yearly awards during thePreluderecurrence held May 11 at the DelamarPart-wayon campus.   “Commencement is the weightier day of the year at PamlicoPolityCollege, so it’s the platonic time to honor people who have excelled in the classroom, on the job and in their roles as important partners,” said PCC President Dr. Jim Ross. “We are honored to recognize these fantastic individuals.”   The ceremony’s first invitee was Kaitlyn H. Jones, who received the 2018WonkExcellenceRibbonand moreover was named the college’s Student of the Year.   Jones, who moreover graduated with her Associate in Arts stratum at the event, was selected for the ribbon from among four nominees. During the ceremony, Vice President of Student Services Jamie Gibbs presented her with a plaque and a medallion.   As the recipient of theWonkExcellence Award, Jones becomes PamlicoPolityCollege’s 2018 invitee in the N.C. CommunityHigherSystem’s “Great within the 58” list of high-achieving students.   Derek Godwin, who is an instructor in PCC’s Criminal Justice program and moreover serves as director of the Career &HigherPromise program, received the college’s Instructor of the Year Award. The award, which recognizes outstanding teaching, is voted on annually by students.   Instructor Dr. Garnett Whitehurst, who teaches biology and chemistry, received the AdjunctSenseMember of the Year Award, which moreover is voted on by PCC students.   Adjunct instructors work part time at the college, but are hair-trigger to students’ success.   Vice President of Instructional Services Michelle Willis presented both Godwin and Whitehurst with their awards during the ceremony.   “Both of these men are outstanding instructors,” she said. “I was extremely happy to see both of them recognized for the work they do every day to help our students succeed.”   Rhonda Tillman wonted the Staff Member of the Year Award, which is voted on by higher employees. Tillman works as an written technician in PCC’sMerchantryOffice.   Chief Financial Officer Sherry Raby presented Tillman with the award.   The college’s Alumnus of the Year ribbon went to Pamlico County Register of Deeds Lynn H. Lewis. Carla Byrnes, president of the PCC Foundation’sWorkbenchof Directors, presented Lewis with the honor.   Ross moreover recognized two polity leaders for receiving the President’sNo-goPartnership Awards. They are Pamlico Correctional Institution Superintendent Faye Daniels and N.C. Sen. Norman Sanderson.   Both Daniels and Sanderson were honored for their unrenowned partnership with Ross in establishing a novel pilot program to offer an associate’s stratum program with life skills courses to offenders at the prison in order to dramatically reduce recidivism when they re-enter society.    Whento Top   Orientations Set forVitalSkills Classes     May 11, 2018Well-constructedyour GED® or HiSETUpperSchool Equivalency at PCC!  VitalSkills Orientation dates:   * Tuesday, May 22, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. * Wednesday, May 23, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.   Location: The Continuing Education office in the Johnson Building.   Questions?Undeniability252-249-1851, ext. 3015.  Whento Top   Sixteen Inducted into PTK     May 11, 2018 PamlicoPolityCollege’s installment of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, Alpha Xi Omicron, welcomed 16 new members recently.   Nine of the 16 participated in an induction recurrence held Monday, May 7, at the DelamarPart-wayon campus.   The 16 new members are: Rebecca Albee, Allissa Alston, Julia Barbour, Tyeshia Bryant, Sytisha Cratch, Jacquelyn Currall, Clotilde Fleurime, Bernell Gaskins, Sheena Gibbs, Louisa Kesseh, Rhiannon Kravetsky, Emily McPherson, Logan Pierce, Stephanie Spain, Deborah Toler and Anwar Wahib.   Founded in 1918, Phi Theta Kappa is an international honor society that recognizes high-achieving students at two-year colleges.  Whento Top  PreludeSet for May 11 at PCC     May 4, 2018 Tassels will be turned and new vita will uncork when Pamlico CommunityHigherhosts its 2018PreludeExercises on Friday, May 11, whence at 6:30 p.m. at the Ned Everett DelamarPart-wayon the college’s Grantsboro campus.   Ninety men and women have qualified to graduate from the higher over the last year, including those who completed their coursework in the current spring 2018 semester, the fall 2017 semester and the summer 2017 session.   Those students have earned a combined 118 wonk credentials, including 55 associate’s degrees, eight diplomas and 55 certificates.   PCC President Dr. Jim Ross will preside over his second prelude as the college’s president. Lisa B. Estep of Wilmington, a member of both the StateWorkbenchofPolityColleges and the New Hanover CountyWorkbenchof Education, will requite the prelude address.   “Commencement is the happiest and most important day of the year at PamlicoPolityCollege,” Ross said. “It’s the reason we’re all here. All of us at the higher commend our graduates for their nonflexible work. We moreover salute the graduates’ families for the sacrifices they have made to help our students unzip these unconfined successes.”   Vice President of Student Services Jamie Gibbs saidPreludeunchangingly creates plenty of happy memories for everyone who attends.   “Watching the graduates receive their credentials provides everyone in ubiety with a lot of joy,” he said. “To the graduates, I say, ‘thank you for permitting Pamlico CommunityHigherto be a part of your educational journey.’”   This year’s graduating matriculation includes a student from Texas who completed her associate’s stratum in Electroneurodiagnostic Technology entirely online. Twelve of North Carolina’s 100 counties, including Pamlico, are represented in the class. The youngest graduate is 18, and the oldest graduate is 58.   A new wing toPreludethis year will be the opportunity for each graduate to have a self-ruling family portrait taken shortly without the ceremony. Each complimentary portrait will be placed in a special frame and will be misogynist to take home that night.   Estep, who is this year’s featured speaker, is a native of Indiana who has lived in Wilmington for increasingly than 20 years. In wing to her wide-stretching wits in both the public schools and higher education, she is a successful purser who focuses on individual taxation.   “Lisa Estep is an outstanding role model for our students,” Ross said. “She is both a highly workaday professional in merchantry and a defended public servant. She moreover is a tremendous supporter of polity colleges and our mission to modernize people’s lives.”   During the ceremony, the college’sWonkExcellence Award/Student of the Year winner will be announced. The higher moreover will honor its Instructor of the Year, Adjunct Instructor of the Year, Staff Person of the Year and Alumnus of the Year.   In addition, Ross will recognize recipients of the President’sNo-goPartnership Awards.   A reception with refreshments will follow the recurrence in the Johnson Building.  Whento Top   Cosmetology Grads Are Living Their Dreams     April 27, 2018 Pamlico CommunityHigherCosmetology graduates Stacey Rochelle Boyce and Serina Nobles are proving true the old truism that if you segregate to do something you love, you will never work flipside day in your life.   Boyce owns and operates Indulgence salon in Oriental. Nobles rents a workspace there. Together they have created a successful, thriving and well-liked merchantry that the two say is moreover a lot of fun.   “I finger like I’m skipping to work every day,” the 46-year-old Nobles said with a chuckle. “Life is good.”   Make no mistake, both Boyce and Nobles work very hard. However, they moreover say that they are extremely happy with their careers, their clientele and the visualization they made to enroll at PCC.   “If you put your mind to it, you can do anything,” Boyce said.   Both women say they were attracted to Cosmetology without doing other things.   Boyce, who grew up in Pamlico County, initially enrolled in PCC’s MedicalProfitableprogram without upper school, but decided it was not for her. She later studied Phlebotomy at a neighboring polity college.   “Several years later, I decided I wanted to do hair,” the 34-year-old said.   She enrolled in PCC’s Cosmetology program and, without some initial nerves, found what she was looking for.   “It was the weightier thing for me,” Boyce said.   She said Cosmetology Instructor Debi Fulcher was a wonderful instructor and a tremendous help to her career.   “I owe her everything,” Boyce said. “She is part of my success.”   She graduated in December 2010 and worked at several salons surpassing deciding in 2015 to unshut her own shop.Withoutsome prayer and a search for a perfect location, Indulgence was born.   Like Boyce, Nobles did not immediately find a career in Cosmetology. She had children – and later grandchildren – at an early age and was single-minded to them.   “I put my life off for a long time,” Nobles said, recalling a story well-nigh how she once became jealous of a friend’s daughter who was taking Cosmetology courses.   “Every year, I put it off,” Nobles said. Finally, a friend told Nobles to leave her house, go straight to PCC, and enroll in the Cosmetology program. She did, and she hasn’t looked back.   “I loved it stuff in this wonderful little county,” Nobles said.   She graduated in May 2017 and went to work with Boyce without Fulcher suggested the two women meet.   “I could see that Stacey and Serina were going to do well in this field at an early stage,” Fulcher said. “Both were very energetic and eager to learn everything they could from day one. With their unconfined personalities, I knew that they would work well together. I felt that it was meant to be.”   It indeed has been a strong partnership: The two women say they are friends and work well together. PCC Cosmetology Instructor Christy Laney plane works in the salon from time to time, they said.   “All of us at Pamlico CommunityHigherlove to hear success stories well-nigh our graduates, particularly those who go on to start thriving enterprises right here at home,” said PCC President Dr. Jim Ross. “I congratulate these two hard-working, driven women on their achievements.”   Both Boyce and Nobles say they encourage others to trammels out Pamlico CommunityHigherand see how it can help them find a career that fits their interests so they can modernize their lives and their circumstances.   “It’s not easy, but it’s worth it,” Boyce said.   Nobles agreed.   “Whatever your dream, live it,” she said.  Whento Top   PCC Students Take Part in DurhamPriming    April 23, 2018 Five men from Pamlico CommunityHighertraveled to Durham in March to participate in a priming designed to equip minority males with the tools they need to succeed in college, on the job and in life.   PCC Vice President of Student Services Jamie Gibbs and four members of PCC’s MEBCO – Men Eliminating Barriers and Creating Opportunities – took part in the 2018 Minority Male Success Initiative Conference.   The event, which featured “Bridging the Gap: Innovative Approaches to Minority Male Success” as its theme, was part of the N.C. CommunityHigherSystem’s ongoing efforts to increase the success levels of minority male students at North Carolina’s polity colleges.   “It was a unconfined trip,” said Gibbs, who serves as MEBCO’s advisor. “This priming left an imprint on them that they will not relinquish.”   PCC and its MEBCO group have been participating in the state system’s Minority Male Success Initiative for well-nigh five years. The effort is supported with grant funds from the System Office.   MEBCO currently includes well-nigh eight PCC students who meet monthly to discuss wonk challenges, time management, financial literacy and other life skills. They moreover take part in higher activities and in service-learning projects.   Four of MEBCO’s members – Clifton Armstrong, Jawaan Coffey, Damius Davis and Jacobie Simmons – were worldly-wise to shepherd the Durham conference.   While, there, the men heard inspiring messages from Dr. Kenston Griffin, founder and CEO of Dream Builders Communication, Inc.; Marques Ogden, a former NFL player; Patrick Patterson, president of Global Partners for Fathers and Families Consulting, LLC.; and Bakari Sellers, a political commentator at CNN.   The PCC students moreover attended breakout sessions throughout the conference. All of them said they were particularly impressed by a session titled “What is Your Why?”, which suggested they focus on their “why” as a resource of power to unzip their definition of success.   Gibbs said the students moreover took wholesomeness of opportunities for networking and meeting new friends at the event.   “They all really benefitted from this conference,” he said.   The priming moreover was an opportunity for educators to compare notes and to proceeds valuable insights to help modernize their institutions’ student success efforts and their overall retention and graduation rates, organizers said.   “I am thrilled these students had an opportunity to participate in this valuable learning experience,” said PCC President Dr. Jim Ross. “We want to see them succeed here at PCC, and all of us squint forward to their unfurled success without graduation. I moreover salute Jamie Gibbs for the translating and guidance he provides to these young men.”  Whento Top  UnconfinedTeamwork Leads to Enrollment Growth     April 13, 2018 A vigorous outreach campaign, new wonk programs, strong polity partnerships and persistent follow-up communications with new and returning students have led to strong enrollment growth this year at PamlicoPolityCollege.   Enrollment for the Spring 2018 semester increased by 14 percent from this time last year, and enrollment for the Fall 2017 semester was up 6.4 percent from the previous year, higher officials stated.   “We are very proud of this considering it ways increasingly people’s lives will be made largest through our college,” said PCC President Dr. Jim Ross. “It was a fantastic team effort.”   The president and PCC’s leadership team took special interest in growing the college’s enrollment over the last year. The efforts have paid off in strong growth, as well as renewed enthusiasm and support for the higher within the community.   “The goal for all of us is to help our community’s residents modernize their lives through the outstanding education they receive at PCC,” Ross said. “We are single-minded to waffly as many lives as possible.”   To increase awareness, Ross and others have worked to build positive relationships with zone media outlets and to share information with them well-nigh the college’s programs and services that serve the community.   PCC moreover has established very positive relationships with the community’s non-profit groups. Ross decided to waive rental fees at the college’s DelamarPart-wayfor all non-profit groups and causes. One result has been a 300 percent increase in polity residents coming on campus to shepherd events. The higher moreover hosted the inaugural Non-profit Leadership Breakfast on campus in May 2017 to thank the non-profit organizations publicly for their work. Through these efforts, PCC now enjoys new partnerships with well-nigh 70 polity organizations.   PCC moreover has widow several new wonk programs to meet polity needs. Last fall, the higher launched a new two-year stratum program in Dental Laboratory Technology. PCC is pensile state clearance for a new Cyber Crime Technology program to teach students how to recognize and thwart attacks on computer networks. In addition, PCC recently widow an Associate’s Degree, Diploma andDocumentprogram in Legal Office Administration; BankingDocumentinMerchantryAdministration; and two new Certificates in Early Childhood Administration. The higher moreover enhanced its wonk offerings for offenders at Pamlico Correctional Institution. The higher now is working to add an Associate’sStratumin Nursing program by fall 2020.Higherofficials believe this program will be transformative for PCC and its service area.  Hair-triggerto PCC’s enrollment growth was revamping its enrollment practices to make them friendlier, supportive and increasingly responsive to student needs. PCC officials lengthened the college’s Spring Registration period in January. Pamlico not only focused on attracting new students through an warlike and highly visible public sensation campaign, it gave special sustentation to retaining students who once were enrolled at the college.   PCC made persistent contacts with students who were enrolled for the Fall 2017 semester but had not enrolled for the Spring 2018 semester.Senseadvisors reached out to them, followed by department chairs, then Student Services staffers, and then the president himself.   The message was the same: How can we help you?   A final effort to help students enroll was made just surpassing the so-called “purge,” which is when students who have registered for classes but have not paid are removed from higher rolls.   “It’s too often a very unfeeling process wideness the country,” Ross said. “We were unswayable to transpiration it to a much variegated process where we act with family-like caring and helpfulness to indulge them to stay in school.”   When PCC’s purge stage came, higher officials informed those well-nigh to be removed from the lists that they had an spare day to pay. They then offered helpful services, including a payment plan and information well-nigh financial aid.   Ross himself moreover got involved throughout this purge process, contacting students by email and by phone to offer help and support.   The result: Only four of the 42 students whose names were on the purge list had to be removed. The other 38 were worldly-wise to enroll.   “That’s 38 human beings who are worldly-wise to protract their education who would not have washed-up so,” Ross said. “I am so very proud of the things we did to uplift enrollment, mainly considering they were the right things to do from a human perspective. We need to help as many students as we can, and we need to be a steer of hope for our community.”  Whento Top   Promise Place to Offer Counseling on Campus     April 6, 2018 Pamlico CommunityHigherthe past two years has exceled in creating numerous dynamic partnerships to bring new programs, services and improvements for its students. This has helped PCC increasingly earn national recognition for excellence. PCC President Dr. Jim Ross, an idealist who has provided energetic leadership to create these innovative partnerships, believes the most recent one is among the most important of his career.   PCC and local non-profit Promise Place are teaming up to provide PCC students and employees a regular schedule of self-ruling mental health counseling services on campus.   “There is a mental health slipperiness in our nation, and no polity in America has been spared,” said Ross. “Our partnership with Promise Place will enable PCC students and employees to get free-of-charge, high-quality help when they go through mental health challenges so they can live happier, increasingly successful lives.”   The weekly one-on-one counseling sessions will uncork Wednesday, April 11. Sessions will be misogynist from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each Wednesday and will take place in Room 438 in the Brinson Building. Appointments will last well-nigh one hour.   “We are extremely excited well-nigh this uplifting project,” said Ross. “We commend the caring professionals at Promise Place for making this possible. I have wanted to do this throughout my career.”   Mental health problems and the need for wangle to treatment for them have increasingly been in the news wideness America.   The local partnership was initiated when Ross met last month with Gayle Westberg and Jen Gonzalez of Promise Place and asked if they could provide such services on campus at no charge. Westberg, who is an well-wisher and therapist, and Gonzalez, who is a therapist, will be the two Promise Place professionals working directly with those who seek assistance at PCC and are thrilled at the opportunity to fulfill part of their non-profit organizational mission at PCC.   Both women visited PCC last week to see the office space that will be used for appointments. They said they looked forward to helping men and women cope with any difficulties they might be having.   While this non-profit organization will have weekly hours at PCC, Gonzalez said PCC students and employees may moreover meet with counselors at the Promise Place office in Grantsboro, if they preferred.   Any student or PCC employee who is interested in scheduling an visit can contact Westberg at 252-474-8336. The organization’s main office number in New Bern is 252-636-3381.   “PCC is known for its extremely upbeat and positive culture, but realistically we know mental health challenges can impact anyone anywhere,” Ross said. “We want to help people powerfully deal with this if it happens to them. We moreover want to help eliminate the unwarranted stigma that too often comes with mental health challenges. If you unravel your arm, you seek treatment. You should moreover seek treatment if you wits a mental health issue.”  Whento Top   New Director Hired for PCC's EDT Program     March 28, 2018 Bonnie Kershner knows her way virtually the human brain.   The 40-year-old Michigan native is a registered polysomnographic technologist (RPSGT) and has nearly two decades of wits conducting sleep studies.   Her past workplaces have included hospitals, clinics and private practices, and she has helped hundreds of patients learn how their brains and persons are working while they are asleep.   Now Kershner is taking on a new role: She is the new Program Director for PamlicoPolityCollege’s Electroneurodiagnostic Technology (EDT) program.   In her new job, Kershner will handle the legalistic and warrant demands of the EDT program while Instructor Leslie Jones will focus on teaching and working with students, many of whom take the program online.   “I’m excited to see the EDT program grow,” Kershner said recently.   The college’s EDT program trains students to self-mastery sophisticated tests on the electrical waves in a patient’s smart-ass and spine. Those tests often are hair-trigger in the diagnosis and treatment of seizures, strokes and other neurological problems, including dementia and ALS.   PCC’s EDT program, which is accredited by the Commission onWarrantof Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP), is one of two now operating at polity colleges in North Carolina. It can be completed entirely online.   Kershner said many of the skills required in EDT are very similar to her work overseeing sleep studies. She moreover says she is no stranger to the rigors of maintaining warrant and meeting goals.   “It’s not foreign to me,” Kershner said with a smile as she held up a thick transmission of warrant requirements.   PCC President Dr. Jim Ross said he was happy to have Kershner on campus.   “EDT is one of PCC’s premier programs, and it is one that produces well-trained professionals who will make lives largest throughout their careers,” he said. “I am glad Bonnie Kershner has joined our EDT program. I squint forward to the contributions she will make to its unfurled excellence.”   Kershner grew up near Detroit and earned her bachelor’s stratum in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1999.   She and her husband moved to Eastern North Carolina in 2004 to be closer to members of thier family. The Kershners live in New Bern and have two daughters, month 8 and 10.   Kershner has spent her first days on the job rhadamanthine familiar with the program and getting to know her new colleagues.   “Everyone has been very helpful,” she said. “I’m learning every day.”   For increasingly information well-nigh the college’s EDT program, please undeniability 252-249-1851, ext. 3043.    Whento Top     PCC Lunch Encourages Student Interaction     March 22, 2018 Students from PamlicoPolityCollege’sPolityLiving matriculation and its Welding program got together for lunch Wednesday.   The idea was simple: Put together two groups of students who might not otherwise interact and have them share a meal.   By doing so, thePolityLiving class, which consists of developmentally disabled adults, would get a endangerment to socialize with others on campus, and the Welding students would have an opportunity to meet fellow PCC students they might not otherwise see.   “I just wanted to encourage some interaction,” said Welding Instructor Joe Flynn, who grilled hamburgers and hot dogs for the lunch.   Wednesday’s event took place in the Student Lounge zone of PCC’s Johnson Building. The Welding students served hamburgers, hot dogs, fries and cookies to thePolityLiving students, and they plane took time to help them fix their burgers and hot dogs just the way they wanted.   For their part, thePolityLiving students were quick to thank their hosts.   Members of the two groups then sat interspersed at tables, took part in some friendly conversation and shared a succulent lunch.   “It was enjoyable,” said Welding student Tanner Willis. “It was really tomfool to interact with them, and they said repeatedly how much they enjoyed the meal.”   Betsy Bailey, who is lead instructor for thePolityLiving class, said the lunch gave her students an opportunity to work on their social skills and to meet some new campus friends.   “They’re stuff included with other groups, and I think that’s great,” she said. “It’s good to meet variegated people. They’ve been very excited well-nigh it.”   PCC President Dr. Jim Ross was pleased to see variegated campus groups coming together.   “I’ve often said that Pamlico CommunityHigheris a family, so it’s unconfined to see Welding students andPolityLiving students sitting lanugo together for a meal,” he said. “There’s unchangingly room at the table for more.”    Whento Top   PCC Alumna Says She's Thrilled To BeWhen    March 15, 2018 LaKendra Pyant recently found her new employer at her old school.   Pyant, who graduated from Pamlico CommunityHigherin 2013 with an associate’s stratum in Criminal Justice Technology, returned to the higher older this month to wilt its new full-time Bookstore Technician/Cashier.   The cheerful 25-year-old says she is happy to be when at PCC.   “I love it,” Pyant said. “I needed a transpiration in life, and I love the environment at Pamlico. Everyone has been nice and very caring.”   She has spent her first days on the job learning well-nigh the Bookstore’s operations and getting to know her new colleagues. Pyant says she is excited well-nigh the opportunity and is ready for the challenge.   “I think I’m going to love it,” she said. “It gives my smart-ass a workout, and I like that.”   PCC President Dr. Jim Ross said he was pleased to welcome a PCC graduate when to campus.   “It’s unconfined when we find that the weightier candidate for an unshut position is moreover a PCC graduate,” he said. “I am very glad that LaKendra Pyant has joined our team, and it’s unconfined to have the PCC Bookstore fully staffed again.”   Pyant was born in New Bern and was raised in the area. She graduated from West CravenUpperSchool at age 17 and shortly thereafter gave lineage to twins – a son and a daughter.  Planethough she was a new mom, Pyant unfurled to pursue her education. She enrolled at PCC to study Criminal Justice Technology and was worldly-wise to well-constructed most of her coursework online.   PCC instructors and advisors were among her biggest supporters and cheerleaders, Pyant said. In fact, the encouragement she received from PCC employees and her family helped her to stay on track to graduate.   While at PCC, Pyant earned outstanding grades and was inducted into the college’s Phi Theta Kappa honor society, which recognizes high-achieving students.   “I’ve proven that people can do it,” she said, subtracting that she hopes to inspire others.   Pyant worked for a while in the college’sMerchantryOffice as a part-time legalistic assistant. She left to take a job in security.   She still works in a security job at Fairfield Harbour and the University of Mount Olive in New Bern, but is thrilled to be when at the higher as a full-time employee.   “I was tabbed when here for a reason,” she said. “I finger like this is where my heart is.”    Whento Top     PCC Students Raise Money for Study Abroad Trip     March 8, 2018 The four Pamlico CommunityHigherEnvironmental Science students who plan to travel to the Philippines later this year are working nonflexible here so they can work nonflexible over there.   The students – Francisco Arreol-Muro, Jenny Mills, Anthony Raisch and Aaron Royal – have been raising the money needed to make the month-long educational and service trip.   Together with Environmental Science Instructor and trip organizer Zac Schnell, they conducted a silent vendition during theUnconfinedOyster Revival & Chili Cookoff on Feb. 24. The group moreover has set up a Go Fund Me page well-constructed with video testimonials and photos to solicit funds.   Schnell and the four students are planning a second silent vendition during the PCC Foundation’s golf tournament on May 19, and they are looking for spare ways to secure the funds needed to make the trip.   “I have been impressed with Zac Schnell and the four students who plan to make this once-in-a-lifetime trip,” said PCC President Dr. Jim Ross. “They are very motivated by this heady opportunity and are working nonflexible to make it happen. The PCC Environmental Science Study Abroad initiative is designed to bring a new dimension to this matriculation which will result in plane greater learning. With Zac Schnell’s inspiring leadership, it is off to a very strong start.”   The upcoming Study Abroad trip to the Philippines is designed to requite the four students valuable hands-on wits in Environmental Science and to help them develop the skills needed to implement environment-enhancing plans and projects.   Participants moreover will learn how to work with people unlike themselves and will wits the culture of a afar part of the world.   The trip is scheduled to last from May 24 to June 24. The group will be living and working on the islands of Tablas and Romblon, where they will be conducting fieldwork and profitable with projects. Plans undeniability for the group to squire two municipalities, a non-profit group and a university with their efforts to preserve and protect the islands’ tropical environment.   “This is not a vacation,” Schnell said with a chuckle.   Schnell is no stranger to the Philippines: The 29-year-old Wilmington native spent two years there working on coastal management projects as a member of the Peace Corps. The contacts he ripened there have been hair-trigger to his effort to launch a Study Abroad program for PCC students, he said.   The trip is the first of its kind in the college’s history. It moreover will mark several firsts for the participants.   For Royal, it will be his first time traveling outside the country. It will be Arreol-Muro’s first time on an airplane, and the trip will be Raisch’s first extended time yonder from his wife and family.   Meanwhile, Mills will be the only woman on the trip, but she dismisses any special sustentation for that, saying she works with men at her job and is used to stuff the only sexuality in a group.   All four say they are excited well-nigh the opportunity to meet people from flipside country and to wits a foreign culture.   “I want to see what other parts of the world squint like,” Royal said.   The students range in age from 22 to 38, and they all say this might be their only opportunity to travel so far from home.   “For most of us, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Raisch said. “We’ll be getting variegated perspectives on how others live.”   Arreol-Muro, who at 22 is the youngest member of the group, said: “I’m very excited I get to do something like this at my age.”   Schnell said the accommodations will be simple, and there will be times when students will not have wangle to the internet, air workout or, on occasion, electricity. He moreover said they’ll be eating unusual foods at times and will hear a lot of Tagalog, which is one of the native languages spoken in the Philippines.   Schnell said the fundraising efforts have secured just unbearable money to pay for the airfare for the group, but increasingly money will be needed to help imbricate spare financing of the trip.   To help offset the cost, the PCC Foundation has established an Environmental Science Study Abroad fund. To help support the effort through the Foundation, please contact Michelle Noevere at 252-249-1851, ext. 3084, or visit http://www.pamlicocc.edu/about-foundation.php to donate via PayPal.   Interested donors moreover can visit the Go Fund Me page at https://www.gofundme.com/pccstudyabroad.   For increasingly information on the planned trip, contact Schnell at 252-249-1851, ext. 3115, or zschnell@pamlicocc.edu.    Whento Top     'Library Junkie' Finds New Home at PCC     March 1, 2018 Paul Goodson is a self-described “library junkie.”   His healthy habit began when, as a youngster at Elmhurst Elementary School in Greenville, a kindly librarian unliable the studious boy to help reshelf books in the school library.   An voracious reader, Goodson spent myriad hours in libraries growing up. He went on to earn a bachelor’s stratum in history at East Carolina University.  Withouta stint in the printing business, Goodson went when to college, this time earning a master’s stratum in library science from N.C. Central University in Durham.   Goodson has worked in nearly every kind of library there is, including a public library, an wonk library at ECU and, most recently, at the Wyoming State Library in Cheyenne as its Legislative and Research Librarian.   The soft-spoken Goodson is now when in Eastern North Carolina, where in February he began work as PamlicoPolityCollege’s new Director of Library Services. In that role, he is responsible for the efficient, orderly operation of the PCC Library, which is headquartered in the Johnson Building.   He moreover handles the hair-trigger task of helping students find the print and online resources they need to well-constructed their coursework.   “Pamlico CommunityHigheris fortunate to have someone as experienced as Paul Goodson to take over the hair-trigger duty of overseeing the library,” said PCC President Dr. Jim Ross. “I know he is glad to be when in his native Eastern North Carolina, and we are glad to have him here.”   Goodson takes over at PCC during a time of unconfined transpiration for libraries. Web-based resources have made information readily available, but they moreover have made it challenging to find the weightier material for an assignment.   “It’s a challenging world, no doubt,” he said. “There’s still a need – and unchangingly will be – for print resources. We must be worldly-wise to help students find the materials they need. That includes online students.” Goodson said libraries must transmute continuously to the ever-growing variety of digital information sources.   He has wits blending the information resources of the past with those of the present. While working at the Wyoming State Library, he helped oversee a project to digitize Wyoming legislative records from the 19th century territorial period to the present day.   Goodson said he and his family enjoyed their time out west, but are glad to be when in North Carolina. “This is home turf to us,” he said.   Goodson’s wife, Michele, works as a medical coder, and the Goodsons have one daughter who still lives at home.   So what does a “library junkie” do in his spare time? Perhaps not surprisingly, Goodson enjoys baseball, a game characterized by volumes of statistics, records, stories and legends – things that a scholastic fella with a love of history is sure to enjoy.   “Baseball and American cultural history have been intertwined for increasingly than 150 years,” he said.   Goodson enjoys researching and writing well-nigh baseball players from older eras, and he is a member of the Society of American Baseball Research.   For increasingly information well-nigh the PCC Library and the resources misogynist there, contact Goodson at 252-239-1851, ext. 3033, or at pgoodson@pamlicocc.edu.    Whento Top   Giles Brings Varied Experiences to Job     February 24, 2018 Lori Giles has owned a business, worked as a factory supervisor and has spent nearly a decade in higher education. Together those experiences make her a fantastic person to lead PamlicoPolityCollege’s Continuing Education division.   “It gives you variegated perspectives,” she said with a smile.   Giles started work Jan. 2 as the college’s new chair of Continuing Education and Technical Programs. In that role, she oversees PCC’s workforce minutiae courses and programs, its Cultural and Life Enrichment offerings, its Transitional Programs such as upper school equivalency and the PCC SmallMerchantryCenter.   She has hit the ground running at PCC: Giles once is working with her staff to develop new programs and to find ways the Continuing Education semester can largest serve the community.   “It’s all well-nigh recognizing the importance of serving customers and meeting the community’s needs,” she said.   Giles’ preliminaries is just as diverse as her work experiences. She was born in Georgia and spent much of her early life in northern New Jersey.  Withoutgraduating from upper school, Giles enrolled at New York University and then finished her bachelor’s stratum in – what else? – Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.   She went on to earn two master’s degrees.   Giles owned and operated a flower shop in New Jersey for several years surpassing deciding to move south with her husband. They settled in New Bern, and Giles became a production supervisor at Hatteras Yachts.  Withoutseveral years at Hatteras, Giles took a job at CravenPolityCollege. In that role, she oversaw student retention and towage in the college’sVitalSkills department. Giles moreover taught humanities and math.   She left Craven without unsuspicious the Pamlico job. It has been a good change, Giles said, although she does miss her students and former co-workers.   “Pamlico CommunityHigheris fortunate to have Lori Giles as the leader of the Continuing Education division,” said PCC President Dr. Jim Ross. “She brings wide-stretching wits in business, industry and public higher education, and I have seldom seen any new employee impress so many colleagues as she has once washed-up here at PCC in a dramatic way.”   Giles said she sees unconfined potential for growth in the college’s Continuing Education offerings, particularly in the zone of workforce training. The key, she said, is to stay nimble and to pay sustentation to what the polity wants.   “You have to listen, considering the needs are unchangingly changing,” Giles said. “The polity has a lot of potential for growth.”   She has challenged her staffers to squint for ways to meet the community’s needs and expectations and, most importantly, to try new things.   “We’re looking at some heady new programs in Continuing Education andVitalSkills,” Giles said.   For increasingly information or to suggest new programs, contact Giles at 252-249-1851, ext. 3015, or email lgiles@pamlicocc.edu.    Whento Top   Modest Leary Receives PCC President'sRibbon    February 8, 2018 “Pattie Leary is an no-go professional and an outstanding human being,” stated Pamlico CommunityHigherPresident Dr. Jim Ross in awarding her the second yearly President’s Award. Ross noted that Leary never sought or expected any special ribbon or recognition for her work with thePolityLiving matriculation at PCC but that she richly deserves it.   In fact, the Lowland native refuses plane to use the word “job” when describing her time at the college.   “It wasn’t a job, it was a manna every day,” said Leary, who retired in December. “It’s just so rewarding, the environment within the classroom that is positive, uplifting, inquisitive and educational. The focus should unchangingly be on the students.”   Ross established the President’sRibbonin 2016 to honor a higher employee who is truly exemplary in stuff positive, professional and productive while improving the higher and its services to the community.   The president spoken Leary’s selection at the college’s 2017 Holiday Banquet. PCC Maintenance staffer Herman Turnage, who moreover retired in December, was the recipient of the inaugural President’s Award.   “Pattie Leary is exactly the kind of person I had in mind for the award,” Ross said. “She was unchangingly very positive, very helpful and friendly, and she was single-minded to her students and their development. Her work here has been an inspiration to me and to others on campus, and she has helped to dramatically modernize the lives of her students, their families and this community.”   Leary formerly was the lead instructor for thePolityLiving class, which consists of 10 to 12 developmentally disabled adults ranging in age from 21 to 67. Using state curriculum guidelines and projects ripened by its instructors, the program strives to teach men and women the life skills they need to function at home and in society.   Skills Leary taught were based on individualized levels and included all wonk subjects, health and safety, etiquette, hygiene, personal banking, cooking, cleaning, laundry, CPR, liaison skills, polity sensation and rights as citizens.   “There was just a whole lot of learning going on there,” Leary said, recalling stories well-nigh how a non-verbal student learned to participate in matriculation and how increasingly wide students often spent time profitable their classmates grasp concepts.   Along the way, students are reminded how to interact with one another. They commonly take field trips, hear from guests speakers and write well-nigh their experiences in journals.   At Christmastime, PCC’sPolityLiving matriculation puts on a well-received holiday show.   “The Christmas play was all them,” Leary said. “They came up with the storyline, and (Instructor) Darlene Willis and I made it happen. Creating a script induced creativity, rehearsals taught perseverance, patience and teamwork.”   The job requires passion, patience and lots of love, but Leary insists she unchangingly got increasingly out of the matriculation than her students did.   “In our classroom I was both student and teacher,” she said. “They taught me compassion and forgiveness. They just want to learn, be heard, listened to, included, loved, and, most of all, independent.”   Leary’s path toPolityLiving teacher began when she worked for 10 years in the mental health field in New Bern.   She later spent some time working with Easter Seals, and then became a classroom volunteer.Withouttaking a undertow in substitute teaching at PCC, she became a middle school substitute teacher.   “I really loved it when I got into it,” Leary said, subtracting that she never planned to wilt a teacher.   In 2011, Leary began volunteering in PCC’sPolityLiving class, which then was known as “Compensatory Education.” She sooner became a substitute teacher, then a part-timer and finally the permanent teacher.   “It just fell into place,” she said.   PCC was fortunate to find someone like Leary to lead the class, said Jim Privette, director of transition programs at PCC and Leary’s uncontrived supervisor.   “She brought energy and creativity as well as a fresh perspective,” he said. “She struck the wastefulness between the disciplines necessary for an organized classroom and the flexibility of nurturing a diverse group of students.”   Privette says he can see the positive transpiration Leary has had on the students.   “She helped all of them mature,” he said. “Pattie has built the students’ confidence. Today, they will squint you in the eye and engage in conversation. This would not have happened for a number of them some years ago.”   Leary said she was surprised to learn Ross wanted her to receive the President’s Award.   “I felt others were increasingly deserving. I told him, ‘You need to requite this to somebody else,’” she said with a chuckle. However, she relented, saying she was humbled by the honor and was well-pleased that her students would receive some recognition.   Leary thanked several zone organizations for their support of thePolityLiving matriculation in recent years, including Wardens GroveSelf-rulingWill Baptist Church, the Goose Creek Island 55-plus Club, Bayboro United Methodist Church, New Vision PH Church, River Time Civitan Club, Pamlico County Courthouse employees, family and friends.   Leary decided to step lanugo from her post so she could help superintendency for her first grandchild, who was born last September. She has two grown daughters, and she has been married for 34 years.   Betsy Bailey now leads withPolityLiving class, with assistance from Darlene Willis.   Leary loves spending time with the baby, but misses her students and her role in the classroom – but, again, she insists that you not undeniability it a job.   “It’s just a rewarding position,” she said. “There’s nothing like that. It was just a manna to me. They unchangingly brought a smile to your squatter and a manna to your heart each day.”  Whento Top   Two Programs Team Up for Valentine's Offer     February 2, 2018 Hands-on training is an integral part of PamlicoPolityCollege’s Cosmetology and Esthetics programs – but no one said it couldn’t be fun, too!   Students in the two Bayboro-based program are teaming up for a special matriculation project that will enhance their respective skills and requite polity residents a endangerment to indulge their sweeties – or plane themselves – for Valentine’s Day.   Students and instructors Cosmetology and Esthetics will be offering a special Valentine’s week package from Monday, Feb. 12, through Thursday, Feb. 15.   The package includes a rejuvenating 30-minute strawberry and chocolate facial by Esthetics students, plus a makeup application. Next, participants will enjoy an invigorating shampoo, blow-dry and styling from Cosmetology students.   The unshortened package financing $16. Instructors say it’s a unconfined way for students in the two programs to wield what they’ve learned and for residents to treat themselves to something out of the ordinary.   “It’s a win-win,” said Debi Fulcher, who leads PCC’s Cosmetology program. “It’s a endangerment for our students to practice, and it’s an opportunity for residents to enjoy a package at an lulu price. It’s moreover a endangerment to show off our programs to potential students.”   Esthetics Instructor Shanna Lewis said the Valentine’s special gives her students an opportunity to interact with customers they might not have met once and to work on clients with varying skin types.   The two programs have teamed up for similar Valentine’s-themed projects twice before, and instructors say they have been popular both with students and the community.   “Students in Cosmetology and Esthetics work nonflexible to develop the skills and techniques that help people squint and finger their best,” said PCC President Dr. Jim Ross. “Both programs require classroom instruction and a lot of hands-on training in the lab. It’s unconfined to see the students and instructors coming up with interesting, creative projects such as the Valentine’s special. It gets students excited well-nigh learning, and it moreover allows them to have a little fun.”   Both Cosmetology and Esthetics are located in the PCC CosmetologyTowersoff N.C. 55 (Main Street) in Bayboro.   For increasingly information well-nigh the Valentine’s special or to make an appointment, please undeniability 252-745-5537.Whento Top   EDT Student Travels from Texas to PCC     January 29, 2018 Several Pamlico CommunityHigherstudents make lengthy commutes to come to campus for class, but few have come as far as Bibiana Wilson.   Wilson, a student in PCC’s online Electroneurodiagnostic Technology (EDT) program, recently traveled from Texas just to spend a week on campus. While here, Wilson met with EDT Instructor Leslie Jones, took part in classroom activities and sharpened her skills. She moreover got to know campus staffers in Student Services and elsewhere who heretofore had only been names on email addresses and phone extensions.   “I wish I would have washed-up this last semester,” Wilson said during a unravel in class. “It’s been great.”   PCC is currently one of only two polity colleges in North Carolina offering an EDT program, and   PCC is the only higher that offers its EDT associate’s stratum program entirely online.   Wilson said she learned well-nigh PCC’s program, which is accredited by the Commission onWarrantof Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP), on the web when she was looking for an volitional to her former job in consumer service. The 41-year-old wife and mother wanted to pursue a career in health care, and she was encouraged by her brother, who is an EDT clinician, to squint at electroneurodiagnostic technology.   The college’s EDT program trains students to self-mastery sophisticated tests on the electrical waves in a patient’s smart-ass and spine. Those tests, which are conducted in hospitals and other health superintendency settings, can be hair-trigger in the diagnosis and treatment of seizures, strokes and other neurological problems, including dementia and ALS.   The tests involve placing a series of electrodes on a patient’s throne to collect data on the electrical waves generated by the smart-ass and spine.Surpassingsetting up the tests, technologists assess a patient’s symptoms and medical history, and then thoughtfully measure the person’s throne to ensure the electrodes are placed the correct loftiness apart.   The patient’s scalp then is cleaned with swig to remove any oils or hair superintendency products, and the electrodes are put on. As the patient follows a series of commands, the electrodes collect data on his or her smart-ass activity.   Wilson was intrigued by electroneurodiagnostic technology and found the program she was looking for at PCC. She enrolled as a loftiness education student and took courses online, first on a part-time understructure and later full time.   “It’s got its challenges,” Wilson said, subtracting that online education requires a significant value of self-discipline and drive.   She credits the support she has received from PCC with helping her succeed. Wilson singled out Jones for her frequent words of encouragement.   “I really love my instructor,” Wilson said. “She’s been great. I don’t think I would be here if I didn’t finger the support.”   For her part, Jones was impressed with Wilson’s determination to succeed and her willingness to travel increasingly than 1,000 miles just to come to campus for some face-to-face instruction.   “It shows her dedication and willingness to invest in herself,” Jones said.   Wilson flew to Raleigh from Dallas and then crush to Eastern North Carolina. She stayed at a New Bern hotel during her visit and planned to return to Texas without seven days and six nights in North Carolina.   Wilson is in her second year in PCC’s EDT program. Her next step is to perform clinical work at a site in Tyler, Texas, so she can stockpile unbearable on-the-job hours to graduate.   “Our EDT program is something that sets us untied from other institutions, both in North Carolina and wideness the country,” said PCC President Dr. Jim Ross. “EDT professionals make lives largest by helping doctors treat citizens with concussions, ALS, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and sleep apnea. We are happy at our higher to have such an outstanding and defended EDT instructor in Leslie Jones who prepares our students extremely well for this important career. We were excited to welcome Bibiana Wilson to campus recently, and we squint forward to hearing well-nigh her future successes.”   For increasingly information well-nigh the college’s EDT program, contact Jones at ljones@pamlicocc.edu or 252-249-1851, ext. 3043.  Whento Top   You Can Sign Up for Online Courses at PCC     January 19, 2018 Instruction began Jan.16 for students enrolled in PamlicoPolityCollege’s seated courses, but there’s still time to enroll in the college’s online undertow offerings.   Registration for web-based classes will protract through Monday, Jan. 29, which is first day of instruction for online courses.   “Online classes are a unconfined volitional for students who find it difficult to make it to our campus,” said PCC President Dr. Jim Ross. “Men and women who are interested in online courses still have time to sign up. As I’ve said before, we want to make sure students have as many opportunities as possible to register for spring 2018 classes. PCC is single-minded to increasing the community’s wangle to higher programs, which enables people to modernize their lives.”   PCC offers online undertow options in many cadre subjects, including Biology, English, History, Math, Psychology and Sociology.   Additionally, several PCC programs full-length web-based classes, includingMerchantryAdministration, Criminal Justice Technology, Early Childhood Education, Electroneurodiagnostic Technology, Environmental Science, MedicalProfitableand others.   New and returning students who are interested in online courses should contact PCC’s Student Services staffers to discuss their options. Student Services is located in the JohnsonTowerson campus or can be reached at 252-249-1851, ext. 3001.   The process for enrolling in online classes is the same as enrolling in traditional seated classes, so it’s important that interested students get started soon.   “Our seated classes have begun, but online courses are still available,” Ross said. “I encourage anyone who wants to get started on improving their life to contact the higher today.”  Whento Top   Spring Semester Gets Underway at PCC     January 16, 2018 Pamlico CommunityHigherformally launched the Spring 2018 semester on Jan. 2 with an opening recurrence in the DelamarPart-wayfor sense members and staffers.   The event gave higher leaders an opportunity to introduce new employees, to unenduring colleagues on higher projects and priorities and to squint forward to a unconfined semester.   “Thank you for all you do,” PCC President Dr. Jim Ross told PCC employees at the event.   The president praised the spirit of teamwork among higher employees, which he said was reflected in PCC’s 2017 designation as the No. 1 polity higher in America by SmartAsset, a New York-based personal finance technology company.   The men and women joining the PCC team this semester include:   * David Bell, who is the college’s newTeammateSystems Administrator;   * Lori Giles, who is the new chair of Continuing Education and Technical Programs;   * Paul Goodson, who will uncork work as Director of Library Services on Feb. 1;   * T.J. Lewis, a maintenance technician hired pursuit the retirement of Herman Turnage;   * George MacIntosh, dental technology instructor at Pamlico Correctional Institution, who started    work last semester, and;   * Eddie Norfleet, the new plumbing instructor at PCI, who takes over pursuit the retirement of    Grady Simpson.   Additionally, officials spoken that PCC sense member Mindy Moore now would lead the college’s SmallMerchantryCenter. Also, Betsy Bailey, who previously taught upper school equivalency classes here, now will teach thePolityLiving matriculation pursuit the retirement of Pattie Leary.   Instructor Todd Meert, who teaches Electrical Systems, was welcomed when to the higher without some time away.  Higheremployees got a little something to take home at the end of the ceremony. Thanks to a souvenir from PCC trustee Al Herlands, full-time PCC employees received their nomination of a self-ruling higher sweatshirt, hooded sweatshirt or T-shirt.   The shirts unfurled a tradition begun in 2016 by Ross and his wife, Pam, who bought shirts for higher employees to wear at polity events and elsewhere.  Whento Top   PCC Adds Two Days to Registration Period     January 2, 2018Consideringof the threat of ripply weather this week, Pamlico CommunityHigherhas widow two days to its Spring 2018 registration period.   In wing to Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 3 and 4, the higher will register students for the upcoming Spring 2018 semester on Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 8 and 9, from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. both days.   Registration will take place in the JohnsonTowersat the PCC Campus.   New and returning students are urged to use circumspection surpassing traveling to campus to register during the ripply weather.   For increasingly information, please undeniability PCC Student Services at 252-249-1851, ext. 3001.  Whento Top   Pamlico CommunityHigherdoes not discriminate in its educational programs, activities, or employment on the understructure of sex, age, disability, race, color, national origin, sexual orientation or religion. 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