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| Date: November 22, 1999 |
LT. GOVERNOR DENNIS A. WICKER HONORED BY STATE BOARD OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES
The State Board of Community Colleges honored Lt. Governor Dennis A. Wicker with a resolution recognizing his years of support and leadership of the North Carolina Community College System. The resolution was presented at the meeting of the State Board on November 19.
Wicker has twelve years of service to North Carolina’s community colleges. He served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Central Carolina Community College in Sanford. He has also served as an ex officio member and chairman of the State Board of Community Colleges. He ended his third term as chair in July of this year.
The resolution, read by State Board Vice Chair Peter Hans and presented by State Board Chair Dr. G. Herman Porter, was unanimously approved by the State Board.
Wicker is a strong proponent community college accessibility. He has constantly supported the idea of free tuition for high school graduates who enter community colleges and introduced legislation to eliminate tuition for those students. In recent months he brokered a deal that enabled the State Board to avoid levying fees on emergency personnel who take training courses at community colleges.
In accepting the resolution, Governor Wicker said " You do me great honor, this is something I will treasure and cherish for the rest of my life." Wicker credited the support he received from State Board for the success he had over the years as he worked on behalf of community colleges. "Of all the things I have accomplished in public service, I will look back on this as being the finest thing I have ever done."
A copy of the resolution is attached.
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| Resolution |
| Honoring Dennis A. Wicker, Lt. Governor |
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For His Years of Service to the |
| North Carolina Community College System |
WHEREAS, the State Board of Community Colleges takes great pride in the outstanding qualities and dedication of North Carolina
citizens who have served North Carolina’s Community Colleges; andWHEREAS, Dennis A. Wicker has reflected these attributes in an outstanding manner during his twelve years of service to the community college system both as a Central Carolina Community College Board of Trustees member and as a member and chair of the State Board of Community Colleges; and
WHEREAS, Dennis Wicker, as chair of the College Tech Prep Task Force, led the effort to establish College Tech Prep programs across the state to ensure a seamless transition from secondary to postsecondary education; and
WHEREAS, Dennis Wicker introduced a bill to eliminate community college tuition for high school graduates which helped pave the way for the creation of the largest scholarship program for community college students in the state’s history; and
WHEREAS, Dennis Wicker, as chair of the State Board of Community Colleges, focused on expanding worker training programs in our community colleges which were ranked the very best by Expansion Management magazine in 1998; and
WHEREAS, the State Board, under the leadership of Chairman Dennis Wicker, secured the strongest financial support from the General Assembly in decades including money for repairs and renovations, technology and equipment; and
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:
That the State Board of Community Colleges expresses its esteem and gratitude to Lt. Governor Dennis A. Wicker for his dedication, his commitment to public education and his leadership in helping the Board to resolve many difficult issues over the past six years and acknowledges that Governor Wicker has played a major role in guiding the Community Colleges of North Carolina to their present level of national recognition.
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Herman Porter, Chairman
State Board of Community Colleges
This 19th Day of November, 1999
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