Wake Tech News

The Wake Technical Community College Board of Trustees is pleased to welcome two new members to its ranks. Brenda Castonguay, appointed by Governor Perdue, and Merrie Hedrick, appointed by the Wake County Board of Commissioners, were sworn in on Tuesday, August 17, as the newest Trustees on Wake Tech's 12-member Board.

Wake Technical Community College has been selected to lead a statewide overhaul of community college programs to improve education and training in emerging green technologies and sustainability. Wake Tech Dean Robert "Butch" Grove will manage the Code Green Super CIP (Curriculum Improvement Project).

Robert "Butch" Grove, a Wake Tech instructor and administrator for more than 20 years, has been named Wake Tech's new Dean of Sustainability. Grove will be in charge of incorporating sustainable practices and processes into Wake Tech programs as well as adding new environmentally-focused training components.

The Board of Directors of the Wake Tech Foundation begins the new fiscal year with a new leadership team in place. Rachel Selisker, a CPA and 1976 graduate of Wake Tech's Accounting program, has been named Board Chair. Selisker is president of Seamark Advisors.

Excitement filled the air as students began classes today on Wake Tech campuses throughout the county. For the first time in Wake Tech history, enrollment in curriculum classes surpassed 18,000 students on the first day of fall semester!

Former foster children attending Wake Technical Community College will soon have a new tool to help them succeed. Triangle Family Services (TFS), a non-profit dedicated to helping families in crisis, is sponsoring a series of financial literacy workshops for students enrolled in the Fostering Bright Futures program at Wake Tech.

Wake Technical Community College is pleased to report grant funding awards of more than $2.1 million in the 2009-10 fiscal year. Such awards are often critical to educational institutions (and other non-profits) as they seek to expand programs and services beyond what regular operating budgets allow.

More than 100 small business owners met face-to-face with potential lenders today at Wake Tech's Western Wake Campus. "Access to Capital" was organized by U.S. Representatives Bob Etheridge and David Price to support small businesses, which account for more than half of all jobs in the private sector.

More than 30 educators from across North Carolina converged on Wake Technical Community College this week for specialized training to enhance their instructional skills for IT courses. The Oracle Academy Instructors' Institute is the first on-site training of its kind to be offered in North Carolina.