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| Date: January 3, 2001 |
Rep. Robert Grady honored by Community College Faculty Association
Raleigh: Representative Robert Grady (R) Onslow, of Jacksonville was presented a Legislative Friends Award by the North Carolina Community College Faculty Association (NCCCFA) for his work during the 1999-2000 legislative sessions. Don Wildman, NCCCFA Vice President, presented the award to Grady last month at the Caswell Building, the Raleigh office of the North Carolina Community College System.
The award recognizes Rep. Grady’s commitment to community college issues in his seven terms representing District 80 in the NC House. Grady’s efforts related to policies that allow community college students to earn credits for transfer to the state’s universities and his efforts related to faculty concerns are especially notable.
Dignitaries on hand to pay tribute to Grady included North Carolina Community College System President H. Martin Lancaster and Phillip J. Kirk, Jr., President and Secretary of the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry. Kirk is also Chairman of the State Board of Education and a former member of the State Board of Community Colleges.
In recognizing Grady, Kirk called him "tenacious" saying, "When he believes in a cause, he fights for it." Kirk credited Grady’s fierce advocacy as a factor in the success community colleges have experienced in the General Assembly over recent years.
Representing the System Office, Lancaster praised the work Grady did on the Articulation Agreement between community colleges and the University of North Carolina and with eighteen private colleges and universities in North Carolina.
Grady was one of nine legislators to be honored by the Faculty Association. The presentation of these awards gives the NCCCFA the opportunity to express gratitude for the hard work specific legislators put into addressing the needs of the North Carolina Community College System. The representatives and senators chosen for the awards are those who consistently demonstrate a high level of commitment to community college faculty issues.
The NCCCFA was founded in October of 1998 to promote excellence throughout the NC Community College System. The NCCCFA addresses issues of importance to the 4,500 full-time faculty and thousands more part-time faculty of North Carolina’s 58 community colleges and the North Carolina Center for Applied Textile Technology.
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