Quintin Whitehead is excelling in a career he didn’t know existed a decade ago. A sales associate and surgical technologist with Zimmer Biomet, a medical device company headquartered in Indiana, Whitehead has a unique perspective in the operating room. He knows surgical instruments, and he understands the devices he sells and how to best implant […]
Many of the 24 EDGE Scholarship recipients who joined the student body at Edgecombe Community College this fall attended a recent orientation on the Tarboro campus. All of these EDGE Scholarship recipients are May 2022 graduates of Edgecombe County and Nash County high schools. Through the EDGE Scholarship, students with a 2.8 GPA in high […]
More than 40 new students recently attended New Student Orientation at Edgecombe Community College. Known as START@ECC, orientation was held on the Tarboro campus. Key faculty and staff shared information about their areas and provided tips on how to succeed in college. This marked the first in-person New Student Orientation since 2019 due to pandemic […]
Practical Nursing graduates at Edgecombe Community College participated in a recent pinning ceremony. From left are (front) Kaitlyn Renee Evans, Ti’Kesha Reneé Hinton, Jessica Edwards, Sharrell Wanda Gray, Jeremy Logan Bulluck, Belinda Detronia Armstrong, Jennifer Moore Case, Mary Jenkins, LaQuisha Shanette Mabry, (back, on stairs) Kristin Barnett, Dana Latrice Kimble, Christine A. Ogwade, Rebeka Lee […]
Edgecombe Community College has launched an online bookstore to enhance the student experience and improve affordability. Through a partnership with Norwalk, Conn.-based online bookstore platform, Akademos, the college now offers all required textbooks and course materials through an online bookstore and plans to rebrand the Campus Store to support the community in new ways. “Providing […]
Edgecombe Community College is proud to announce its President’s List for the Spring 2022 semester. The following full-time students earned a 4.0 grade point average, placing them on the President’s List. Bailey: Jocelyn Brumley Chapel Hill: Charles Price Denton: Heather Jones Elm City: Parker Hobgood, Thomas Lane Fountain: Amber Stancil Greenville: Joeisha Tripp Macclesfield: Latasia […]
Jacob Anderson, a student in the Electrical Systems Technology program at Edgecombe Community College, has set a high mark for himself. He is studying toward an unlimited license, the highest credential for electricians and one that has become uncommon. According to Doug Parrish, department chair of Industrial and Technical Trades at ECC, “There are only […]
When Eren Exum starts classes at the University of Alabama as a junior in August, she says she feels well prepared, thanks to the first two years of college she received at Edgecombe Community College. Exum completed an Associate in Arts degree at ECC in May. She also graduated from Edgecombe Early College High School […]
Incoming Edgecombe Early College High School ninth graders planted shrubs and perennial flowers next to a new parking lot and sidewalks on the Tarboro campus of Edgecombe Community College. The lot is adjacent to the Library Building. Students participated in the project as part of their week of orientation to the Early College, which is […]
His path may have been winding, but Kevin Sharpe has ended up exactly where he was meant to be, a student in the Respiratory Therapy program at Edgecombe Community College. Sharpe, 36, is a graduate of North Pitt High School in Bethel. “I took a year off, life happened, and I didn’t go to college […]
