RCC’s graduation applications for December 2019 are due by 3 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 27. • Students completing degree, diploma, and/or certificate requirements this semester must submit an application for graduation form even if not participating in the ceremony. • Application forms are available online and at the Welcome Desk in the Whitcomb Student Center. …Read More
WENTWORTH – While the AmeriCorps/Vista program has come to an end at Rockingham Community College, its projects continue helping the college, its students, and its community. AmeriCorps/Vista arrived on campus in the fall of 2017, in the form of two workers who stayed on for a year with the grant-funded program. They were followed by …Read More
During a July 24 evening ceremony, 12 Rockingham Community College Licensed Practical Nursing students received their pins. They are Whitney Blackstock, Melanie Carter, Tameka Henry, Sandra Hopkins, Heather Lucas, Leslie Martin, Tammy Rankin, Angel Ray, Mary Watkins, Marquita Watlington, Ernestrina Wilhite, and Marchella Willard.
Rockingham Community College welcomes Bill Jones, a new pottery instructor in RCC’s Continuing Education program. Jones makes utilitarian slipware pottery and sculpture decorated with wild, abstract drawings. Operating from his disorganized studio in Greensboro, he travels far and wide selling his wares and teaching others. Jones grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and studied architecture …Read More
Rockingham Community College congratulates the following students who were named to the dean’s list and president’s list for the summer semester: President’s List Burlington: Marisa Jane Sherrett Eden: Emily Elizabeth Jarrell, Angel Lashell Ray, Mekensie Leigh Wood Gibsonville: Carlie Elizabeth Smith Greensboro: Kiarah Montagia Penn Mebane: Mary LuCinda Watkins Reidsville: Misty Dawn Dove, Tammy Wynette …Read More
Rockingham Community College and the Americorps Vista team that has been working on campus for several semesters hosted home school parent-teachers on July 15 for an instructional workshop. “You have to be the most disciplined, dedicated people on the face of the earth, and I applaud you. It is huge for your family to (home …Read More
The graduation ceremony for 96 students who earned their High School Equivalency diplomas and eight students who earned their Adult High School diplomas was held on Thursday, July 25, at 10 a.m. in the Robert C. Keys Gymnasium at Rockingham Community College. Receiving the Adult High School diploma were: Kalob Brown, Leslie Bullins, Mason Gantt, …Read More
Seventy-nine students received credentials on Friday, July 26 during the summer commencement ceremony at Rockingham Community College. RCC conferred 45 associate degrees, 28 diplomas, and seven certificates during the morning event at the Robert C. Keys Gymnasium, to the following students: Brown Summit: Kaitlyn Robbins – Associate in Arts Degree Burlington: Marisa Sherrett – Surgical …Read More
The Rockingham Community College Board of Trustees on July 16, 2019 approved the site for the college’s new Center for Workforce Development – and an extra $4 million for the project, bringing the budget to $19 million. The 41,200-square-foot building will be constructed on 2.64 acres on Wrenn Memorial Road at the traffic triangle, across …Read More
WENTWORTH – Rockingham Community College’s 52nd Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET) Class graduated on June 17. The 10 graduates are Jaunayd Mubarik Abdul-Kareem, Jacob Dearborn Clark, Stephen Logan Cochran, Stephen Todd Gammons, Joshua Bradley Kendrick, Jeremy Daniel McCollum, Brandon Alexander Nichols, Taylor Meyrie Pittman, Favio Augusto Stroher, and Cody Tyler Wray. This session of BLET …Read More
Marisa Sherrett arrived at Rockingham Community College within days of moving to the area, with one unusual item packed away in her luggage: A Bachelor of Science degree from Kentucky Christian University, from where she graduated in May 2018. “I started to think I wanted to be a pharmacist, so I did all the pre-pharmacy …Read More
Trevor Flanery has joined the faculty and staff of Rockingham Community College as the new director of the Duke Energy TRAILS program. Duke Energy provided a $700,000 gift to begin the program in April 2017, the first community college recreational program of its kind in the region. It is designed to teach valuable hands-on skills …Read More
The Rockingham Community College Criminal Justice Club visited Washington, D.C. March 6-10. While the weather was cold, the experience was life changing for some of the attendees. Most of the attendees had not been on a train, been to DC and certainly had never visited the Capitol Rotunda, the Supreme Court or the Library of …Read More
Two Rockingham Community College Fine Arts students have been selected for summer work-study positions at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. “They will work for three weeks, and then have three weeks of classes,” said RCC Fine Arts instructor Philip Haralam. More than 90 people applied for the program. The two RCC …Read More
Lunch is available this summer in the dining area of Whitcomb Student Center. Food vendors will offer special selections Mondays through Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m., through July 24. Monday Chick-fil-a will be offering eight nuggets, chicken sandwich, waffle chips, and cookies. Sandwich/nuggets — $4.50 Chips — $1.50 Chocolate chunk cookie — $1.50 …Read More
WENTWORTH – Rockingham Community College has announced the students named to the spring semester president’s list and dean’s list. To be eligible, students must maintain a 4.00 GPA for the president’s list, or 3.25 GPA for the dean’s list during the semester, and must have attempted at least 12 college-level credit hours during the semester. …Read More
WENTWORTH – Local high school students have an opportunity to take college courses on their own campus, and can then qualify for tuition-free scholarships at Rockingham Community College. Rockingham Promise is a collaboration between RCC and Rockingham County Schools, and is an innovative and progressive plan to increase access to college courses, create opportunities for …Read More
