Wake Tech News

Wake Tech Community College was awarded more than $4.4 million in grant funds in 2012-13 – a record high for the college and a 22% increase over the previous fiscal year. Educational institutions often rely on grant awards to expand their programs and services beyond the constraints of regular operating budgets. 

Wake Tech culinary students leave Wednesday, October 2 for an 18-day educational experience of a lifetime! Six students and their instructor will head to Le Touquet, France, to study French cuisine at a culinary school and to learn the ropes in French restaurants.

“The way we are living – right now – is not sustainable.” Those words opened a special presentation today at Wake Tech Community College by Dr. David McNelis, Director of the Center for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economic Development in UNC-Chapel Hill’s Institute for the Environment.

Wake Tech Community College is part of an important higher education initiative aimed at training a “mission critical” workforce – preparing workers to handle structures and systems that are vital to keeping business operations running.

Wake Tech Community College is launching a new emergency notification system called Wake Tech WARN. The system will send voice, text and email alerts in the event of a campus emergency, safety hazard or inclement weather situation.

Wake Tech’s campus police force is marking one year of service to the campus community. The Board of Trustees approved the establishment of the force in April of last year, and officers reported for duty July 1, 2012. Fourteen other North Carolina community colleges in the state have campus police, as do all the universities in the UNC system. 

Wake Tech welcomed visitors from Belarus and Morocco this week. The visitors from Morocco included 20 senior officials from parliament and government who were interested in learning about how the United States engages youth in policy making, government decision making and in preparing youth for better job opportunities.

With a special tribute to the victims and heroes of that day, along with recognition of the first responders who risk their lives every day – here in our community and elsewhere. The event focused on Wake Tech’s highly-acclaimed public safety education programs as the college celebrates its 50th anniversary.

A realistic nursing simulation suite, hospital-sized radiography labs, and an EMS ambulance bay are just some of the state-of-the-art training features in the newest building on Wake Tech’s Health Sciences Campus adjacent to WakeMed. Educators, architects and elected officials gathered today for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Health Sciences Building 2.