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| Date: May 3, 2005 | (919) 807-6963 |
Community college curriculum demonstrations continue at General Assembly
RALEIGH: Stanly Community College and Fayetteville Technical Community College will each showcase an interesting and important program at the General Assembly on Wednesday, May 4. The Stanly CC program will be presented in the North Lobby of the Legislative Building. Fayetteville Technical Community College will be in the 1100 Courtyard.
Angela and Scott Stevens have been married for 18 years. In December 2005, they will each receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in elementary education from University of North Carolina at Charlotte. They have never taken a class on the UNC-C campus. They have done all their course work at Stanly Community College. On Wednesday they will come to the General Assembly to tell how they were able to begin their higher education classes at Stanly CC, graduate from Stanly and then transfer to UNC-C, and still take all their courses at Stanly.
Angela and Scott are students in the K-8 Teacher Education Project, a joint collaboration between Stanly CC and UNC-C. This project is designed to allow adults with home and family responsibilities to take their baccalaureate classes on the community college campus from university instructors who come to Stanly to teach. The goal is to train teachers at home so these "homegrown" teachers will stay in their home community and teach.
The Stanly CC demonstration will be in the North Lobby from 9:30 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.
Fayetteville Technical Community College is hosting a demonstration on Wednesday in 1100 Courtyard from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. A Learning Community City has been constructed and will be on display to give legislators a visual representation of the Learning Community concept.
In higher education, Learning Communities are classes that are linked or clustered during an academic term, often around an interdisciplinary theme, and enroll a common cohort of students. A group of fifteen students and a team of instructors will be on hand to interact with legislators and answer questions.
The North Carolina Community College Faculty Association presents these demonstrations to graphically illustrate the important role community colleges play in preparing North Carolina's workforce. The program also gives community college students a valuable lesson in state government.
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