Wake Tech News

A new Wake Tech initiative to engage employees in creative, collaborative problem-solving has won the 2014 Innovation of the Year Award from the League for Innovation. The initiative, called SAIL (Succeed, Achieve, Improve, Learn), is a structured process through which college staff and faculty can work together to address institutional challenges. 

Wake Tech’s well-known, state-of-the-art Health Sciences Campus, adjacent to WakeMed in Raleigh, has a new name: Today, college officials dedicated the Perry Health Sciences Campus to honor Jim Perry, Chair of Wake Tech’s Board of Trustees, and his wife, Becky.

Wake Tech Community College now offers students and the community a powerful new resource for exploring potential careers. The college has launched Career Coach, a free online service that allows students and other visitors to Wake Tech’s website to research various careers and their employment prospects. 

A collaboration between Wake Technical Community College and NC Wesleyan College will give Wake Tech graduates new options for pursuing a bachelor’s degree. Wake Tech President Dr. Stephen Scott and Jim Gray, President of NC Wesleyan College, announced the new program during a signing ceremony on Wake Tech’s Main Campus.

If you’re thinking about enrolling in a degree program at Wake Tech, now’s the time to apply! The college is currently accepting applications for the fall 2014 semester.

U.S. Representative David Price visited Wake Tech Community College today to announce a major grant award the college will receive from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award, more than $825,000, comes from the NSF’s Advanced Technological Education program.

Wake Tech graduate David Roman is taking the first step toward a career in politics, thanks to hard work and determination – and the help of friends at Wake Tech. David leaves Saturday to begin a summer internship in the office of Representative David Price in Washington, D.C.

Wake Tech students “crunched the numbers” successfully to excel in the national Student Math League (SML) competition, sponsored by the American Mathematics Association of Two Year Colleges (AMATYC). Students from 35 states and Bermuda, in courses from pre-calculus through top-level calculus, participated.

Excited graduates celebrated a long-deferred graduation Monday night, as Wake Tech Community College held its spring GED® and Adult High School graduation ceremony.  More than 200 students earned credentials, and 72 participated in the event on Wake Tech’s main campus.