The Role of North Carolina Community Colleges in Our Interconnected World

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The Role of North Carolina Community Colleges in
OurInterconnected World

• World ViewCommunity College Symposium
• H. Martin Lancaster, President
• North Carolina Community College System
• www.nccommunitycolleges.edu 919-807-7100

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• Do your students learn Hindi?
• Secondary school student in India
• Faces of India
• October 2006 (World View trip)
• Gerald Waller
• James Sprunt Community College

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Common Course Library(Curriculum)

• American Sign Language
• Chinese
• English
• French
• German
• Italian

• Japanese
• Latin
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish

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Master Course List(Continuing Education)

• Interpreter And Translator Training
• Immersion Language Training
• English as a Second Language (Basic Skills)
• Conversational Spanish

• Japanese
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Italian
• Introduction To Arabic
• Chinese

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Our comfort zones

• We know what we are taught andwhat we
  experience.
• Vince Revels
• NC Community College veteran

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Tower of Caswell(native/family speakers)

• Afrikaans
• Arabic
• Aramaic
• French
• German
• Greek (classical)
• Hebrew

• Malayalam
• Spanish
• Swahili
• Tagalog
• Tamil
• Telugu
• Urdu

• Hindi
• Italian
• Japanese
• Kannada
• Kihaya
• Korean
• Latin
• Mandarin Chinese

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From one who does study Hindi
Photo by Gerald Waller

• I'm counting on being ahead of the curve.
  According to the latest data the number of
  immigrants in NC from the subcontinent has
  tripled over the last 8-10 years to roughly
  28,000. If the System Office is ever involved in
  a cultural or professional exchange with India,
  keep me in mind, okay?
• System Office employee

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As far as

• We must take people where they are and carry
  them as far as they can go within the assigned
  functions of the system.
• Dr. Dallas Herring

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A New Mission

• to open the door to high-quality, accessible
  educational opportunities that minimize barriers
  to post-secondary education, maximize student
  success, develop a globally and multi-culturally
  competent workforce, and improve the lives and
  well-being of individuals by providing
• Education, training and retraining for the
  workforce
• Support for economic development
• Services to communities and individuals which
  improve the quality of life
• Added by action of the State Board of Community
  Colleges September 2006

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Germany France Netherlands Belgium Switzerland
Sweden Denmark Norway Finland

• Japan
• Korea
• Taiwan
• China
• Hong Kong

Canada Mexico
England Scotland Northern Ireland
Vietnam Thailand
Brazil Argentina
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The language of jobs just three counties!
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• Give me your tired, your poor,
• Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
• The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
• Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
• I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
• Emma Lazarus The New Colossus

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• In the past four years, more than half the new
  students in North Carolinas public schools were
  Hispanic/Latino.
• Most Hispanic/Latino children in North Carolina
  live in households earning less than 30,000 per
  year, where parents dont own their homes and
  dont have a college education.
  Data from NC Tomorrow

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Progress and Challenge

• Numbered Memo CC07-275 New Guidance on the
  Admission of Undocumented Individuals
• notwithstanding any policy of the local board,
  colleges should immediately begin admitting
  undocumented individuals.
• In curriculum, out-of-state tuition required
  except when waived by law (Learn and Earn, for
  example)

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• Help schools and colleges prepare students to
  succeed in an interconnected world in which the
  rules have changed for everyone.

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Modeling ExcellenceEast-West Community College
Partnership

• After recruiting trip to Asia, Thailands Prime
  Minister asked for help in establishing
  community college system.
• November 2001 Thai Government created 10
  community colleges in rural areas having no
  access to higher education 4000 students in
  first 18 months now up to 19 colleges and more
  than 35,000 students
• Thai delegations have visited and teams from NC
  have traveled multiple times.

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Sharing ExpertiseUnited Kingdom

• Student, faculty, and administrator exchanges
• 22 Programs
• Sister institutions
• Distance education offerings
• Joint research projects
• First year in a UK institution, followed by
  second year in North Carolina

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Welcoming the World

• God willing, I'll be able to give back
  something to a community that has already given
  me so much. I want to leave you with one last
  comment, be grateful for all you have in this
  country, the freedom, the sunshine, the people
  and most of all the opportunities. You gave me
  the chance to start over, to reinvent myself and
  to accomplish a lifelong dream.
• Marti Curtis, Beaufort County Community
  CollegeAcademic Excellence Award Speaker 2007
• Native of Northern Ireland

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The Role of North Carolina Community Colleges in
OurInterconnected World

• World ViewCommunity College Symposium
• H. Martin Lancaster, President
• North Carolina Community College System
• www.nccommunitycolleges.edu 919-807-7100