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| For Release: IMMEDIATE | Contact: Public Affairs |
| Date: March 23, 2001 |
Community colleges host top educators from Thailand
RALEIGH: What do you do if you want to start a new education program and need guidance on how to proceed? Ask someone who has been extremely successful! Top education officials from Thailand will be in North Carolina on March 29-31 to get pointers from North Carolina’s community colleges.
The Thai Adviser to the Ministry of Education will lead a delegation of eight Thai education officials touring Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh and Johnston Community College in Smithfield. They will come to North Carolina to "learn from the experts" who are operating successful training programs in, respectively, the second largest city and the fastest growing county in North Carolina. They will see everything from truck driver training to pharmaceutical technology and will use what they learn here as they develop a community college-type system in Thailand.
The Thai officials will spend Friday, March 30 touring business and industry training programs at Wake TCC and Johnston CC. The day starts at 8:00 AM at Wake TCC’s Business and Industry Center at Waverly Place in Cary. At 10:00 AM they will tour facilities on the main Wake Tech campus. After lunch at Wake TCC and a presentation by the Thai delegation, the group will tour the Novo Nordisk and Bayer facilities in Johnston County (1:30 PM), followed by a tour of several training and business programs at Johnston CC (3:15-5:15 PM).
The delegation, which also includes the Deputy Director General of Non-formal Education, Deputy Director General of Vocational Education, a member of the Thai Industrial Council and the Director of the SE Asia Institute of International Education, will have a full schedule during their North Carolina visit. The group arrives late on Thursday afternoon, March 29, in time for a dinner at the home of NCCCS President H. Martin Lancaster. (A full agenda follows.)
Lancaster first made contact with Thai education officials while he was on a trade mission with then Governor Jim Hunt last year. "Thai officials were extremely interested in our presentation and expressed an interest in visiting North Carolina to see our trendsetting workforce training programs in operation," said Lancaster. "This is a tribute to the excellence found on all our campuses and a testament to the successful partnerships we have established with the business community."
The Thai delegation will also visit community colleges in San Francisco and Iowa.
The schedule is planned as follows:
Thursday, March 29.
5:00 p.m. Arrive RDU International Airport
6:45-7:00 p.m. Check-in Courtyard Marriot (McGregor Village)
7:30 p.m. Dinner, Home of President Martin Lancaster
Friday, March 30
8:00-9:30 a.m. Wake Technical Community College
- tour of Business and Industry Center,
Waverly Place, Cary (Intersection of Kildaire Farm and Tryon Roads)
1. Overview of special
projects- Cisco, Biogen, John Deere
2. Overview of Small
Business Center
3. Tour facility
9:30- 9:45 a.m. Travel to
Wake TCC main campus (Highway 401, south of Raleigh)
10:00-11:30 p.m. Tour facilities
at Wake TCC
1. Tour
- Technology programs
2. Tour - Plastics
Program, Electronics Technology, Computerized Engineering,
Auto/Robotics, Industrial Engineering
3. Overview - Cisco
Academy, Microsoft Certification, Nortel Training.
11:30-1:30 p.m. Catered Lunch
provided by Wake TCC and Presentation by Thai Delegation
(Student Union)
1:30-2:00 p.m. Travel to Novo
Nordisk and Bayer in Johnston County for Pharmaceutical Technology
2:00-3:00 p.m. Pharmaceutical Technology Visit with
Novo Nordisk and Bayer
3:00-3:15. p.m. Travel to Johnston Community
College
(Intersection of Interstate 95 and US Business 70 at 245 College Road in
Smithfield)
3:15-4:15.p.m.
Johnston Community College Programs
1. Role of
Community College in Economic Development
2. Information
Technology Programs
3. Continuing
Education, Upgrade Training, Focused Industry Training, Fire, EMS, Small
Business Center
4. Joblink
Career Center
5. Human Resources
Development
4:15-5:15. p.m. Tours
1. Tour of LRC/Information
Highway Room
2. Tour of Health
Science Building
3.
Tour of Truck Driver Training Program and Facilities
5:15-5:40 p.m. Tour of Howell
Woods Environmental Learning Center
(Fifteen miles southeast of the main campus)
5:40-7:00 p.m. Dinner - Pig-Picking
(Howell Woods)
Saturday, March 31
8:00 Travel from hotel to System Office
8:l5 Martin Lancaster Introduction and welcome to System Office
8:30 Darlene Johns Private Computer Training Provider
9:00 Allen
McNeely
Licensing and regulation of Private Schools/Tech Prep (articulation
NCCCS
of community college technical programs with high school programs)
9:30 Dr. James L. Lemons NC Center for Applied Textile Technology (textile programs)
10:00 Dr. Jeff Hockaday
Community College System Trustee training
Consultant to NC
Assn. Of
Community College
Trustees
10:30 Dr. Ed
Boone
Masters and Doctoral Programs at NC State
University in Adult and Community
College Education and Community Based Planning
And Community Development
11:00 D. L. Turbyfill
Furniture training programs
Director,
Furniture Technology
Catawba
Valley Community College
11:30 Martin Lancaster Wrap up/Adjourn
The North Carolina Community College System, with more than 760,000 students, is the third largest community college system in the United States. The System is the state’s primary agency for delivery of job training, literacy and adult education programs.
For more information, contact Tim Brewer or Audrey Bailey at NCCCS (919) 733-7051.
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