Leaders at the 2019 Dallas Herring Lecture

Equipping Leaders, Changing Lives

Equipping Leaders, Changing Lives

We support community colleges across North Carolina and the nation to help them improve student access and success in three ways:

Executive Leadership Programs

We enable community college presidents and trustees to support higher levels of institutional performance.

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Research to Action

We help community colleges identify critical needs and support their leaders in making evidence-based decisions.

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Doctor of Education Program

We support the doctoral program with executive mentors, scholarships, data and writing coaches, and professional development opportunities.

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Community College Journal Spotlights NC State's College of Ed Community College Leadership Programs

"NC State's program combines theory, research, and practice in striving toward equity, student success, development of internal culture and data-driven decision making. Modules offer practical leadership guidance taken, in part from an advisory board populated by experienced two-year administrators."

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The Belk Center Receives Additional $4.3 Million in Funding to Further Support North Carolina Community Colleges and Foster Student Success

The Belk Center for Community College Research and Leadership, which is part of North Carolina State University’s College of Education, recently received two grants, totaling $4.3 million, aimed at serving North Carolina’s community colleges.

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Partnerships

Our state and national partners are instrumental in the Belk Center's establishment. Each partner has played a critical role in shaping the center's purpose and continues to support our work through identifying the urgent needs our community colleges face and designing programming to meet those needs.

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PACE Campus Climate Survey

The National Initiative for Leadership and Institutional Effectiveness (NILIE) works with institutions across the U.S. to administer campus climate assessments for the purpose of enhancing institutional effectiveness and student success.

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“Excellent leaders make an exceptional difference in student success. Investing in community college leaders now will pay dividends for decades to come by strengthening North Carolina’s middle class and contributing to the state’s economic prosperity.”

— Dr. Robert Templin

Former president of nationally renowned Northern Virginia Community
College, who joins NC State as a professor of practice for this initiative
and serves as a senior fellow at The Aspen Institute.

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