FTCC and Education - In the News
- January 30, 2009 -
The Fayetteville Observer
- A show of faculty finesse
- Cape Fear Studios treated the public to the work of colleges
and universities in this area and in Raleigh on Fourth Friday.
Artist Sean McDaniel, who heads the Arts and Drama department at
Fayetteville Technical Community College, shows a painting of
two babies crying. He wanted to make viewers wonder which one
was crying first and made the other cry. The baby on the right
got a little out of proportion, he says, and began to take on
the look of a little old man. He believes it looks like a
self-portrait. - By Melissa Clement
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- January 23, 2009 -
The Fayetteville Observer
- Art Beat
- Peggy Hinson is one of the artists from area colleges and
universities who will show their work at Cape Fear Studios
during Fourth Friday events, in a show called “North Carolina
College Faculty.” - By Melissa Clement
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- January 8, 2009 -
The Fayetteville Observer
- Cheers & Jeers
- Cheers to Heather Yarborough and Leanne Kirpatrick, director
and assistant director at Fayetteville Technical Community
College’s Children’s Center! Since April, both ladies have done
an amazing job with steering the center in the right direction.
All of the staff members appreciate the hard work and dedication
you have given to the children. Because of their hard work and
dedication, we received our five-star rating, and it’s the best
place to work in all of Fayetteville.
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- January 8, 2009 -
The Fayetteville Observer
- As going gets tough, the tough go to class
- The state Employment Security Commission says the jobless
rate went up in every North Carolina county in November.
Cumberland County’s shot up by almost a full percentage point to
7.6 percent. FTCC officials say they are seeing a lot of those
unemployed people, eager for training or a degree that will get
them a decent job once the economy rebounds. “In every category
we’re up,” said college President J. Larry Keen, “and up pretty
significantly.” - By Francis X. Gilpin
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- December 16, 2008 -
The Fayetteville Observer
- Learning Curve
- MDC was recently awarded a $16.5 million grant from the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation to help pinpoint successful
educational programs. The money will be awarded to qualified
community colleges that develop worthwhile proposals to better
train today’s work force. None of the community colleges around
Fayetteville has qualified. Only four of the state’s 59
community colleges will even have the opportunity to apply for
the grant: Durham Technical Community College, Guilford
Technical Community College, Martin Community College and Wayne
Community College. When needs are great and resources limited,
it’s a shame to let this money slip by. But grant programs like
those from the Gates Foundation are time-consuming and
labor-intensive. It’s hard finding staff to cover classes, let
alone draft requests for which they may not qualify. And
Fayetteville Technical Community College, which treats job
placement as part of its mission, is already addressing the gap
between textbook knowledge and real-world learning.
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- More Stuff to fill in the gap :-)
- April 28, 2008 -
The News & Observer -
Universities woo community college
students
- Across the state, universities are enrolling more community
college graduates toting two-year degrees. In this pool of
prospects, campus officials see eager, mature and motivated
students who may be a better bet to reach the academic finish
line than an 18-year-old freshman who has never set foot on a
college campus or lived away from home.
"They have gone through two years, and they have gone through
the transition to college," said Bernice Johnson, NCCU's
assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs. "We find they
tend to be a lot more mature and a lot more serious about
learning." - By Eric Ferreri
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- April 27, 2008 -
The Fayetteville Observer
- Business Observer
- Corliss Udoema has been named the military business
coordinator for the North Carolina Military Business Center at
Fayetteville Technical Community College’s Spring Lake campus.
Udoema has more than 32 years of experience as a contracting
officer with the Navy and Department of the Interior, and is a
small-business owner. Some of her duties include providing
business development services statewide and connecting
businesses with contract opportunities at Fort Bragg.
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- April 23, 2008 -
The Fayetteville Observer
- Harrison urges ‘make it real’
- Harrison said schools should adapt classrooms to the age of
video games.
“If we take the violence out of some of those things, they’re
pretty powerful learning tools,” he said.
Gamers challenge themselves in an uplifting setting with
friends, and they get instantaneous feedback in a rigorous,
goal-oriented exercise.
“That’s a pretty positive environment,” Harrison said.
The superintendent said he is encouraged by a new
three-dimensional, interactive teaching module at Fayetteville
Technical Community College.
“What I’m seeing is exactly what I’m hearing from our young
people,” Harrison said of the Fayetteville Tech project. - By
Francis X. Gilpin
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- April 18, 2008 -
The Fayetteville Observer
- 1-on-1 With Obama
- Obama said Thursday he didn’t know whether his schedule
would permit a return to Fayetteville. On March 19, he spoke to
a small audience at Fayetteville Technical Community College,
reiterating to a nationally televised audience his stance on
terrorism. Some in Fayetteville criticized the invitation-only
event because it was not open to the public.
“I don’t know what my schedule is, but we try to balance the
events,” Obama said Thursday. “When you have an open event with
8,000 people, it’s difficult to have a question-and-answer
session or deliver a lengthy speech on a complex topic like
Iraq. We try to mix it up.” - By Don Worthington
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- April 14, 2008 -
The Fayetteville Observer
- Keeping safe in cyberspace
- Those who showed up for the forum received an Internet
safety briefing from Special Agent Kevin West of the State
Bureau of Investigation, and instructor Margie Mullis from
Fayetteville Technical Community College — along with a bit of
insight from a teen’s perspective. “We’re here to learn today
how to protect our children from this world known as
cyberspace,” Dorothy Funkhouser told the audience early on.
She’s director of Christian education at Haymount United
Methodist Church. Mullis, an office systems technology
instructor at FTCC, said parents must be vigilant in protecting
their children. Youth must be made aware of the dark side of the
Internet. - By Michael Futch
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- April 7, 2008 -
The Fayetteville Observer
- Program trains leaders
- The Institute for Community Leadership wants to encourage
you to become a leader in our community. We want you to get
involved with the varied aspects of our community. In fact, it
is the goal of ICL to help you prepare to serve and to lead.
What is ICL? The institute is a joint community effort designed
to provide local citizens the opportunity to participate in
activities leading to community leadership and membership on
boards and commissions as well as work with civic and religious
entities. The organization’s vision statement is: “To identify,
develop, and empower community members, especially those not
previously identified, who are able and willing to commit to
leadership roles in addressing the issues of the
Fayetteville/Cumberland County area.”
The Institute sponsors include the city of Fayetteville,
Cumberland County, Cumberland County public schools,
Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville Technical Community
College, Methodist University and a volunteer representative
at-large. The Arts Council has also been a long-term major
supporter of ICL. - By Willis M. Watt
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