Leaders at the 2018 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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Belk Center Events Full Calendar

Sept. 9-12 | Presidents' Academy

Community College leaders are developing questions about how academic programs can best serve their communities after taking a deep dive into data at the second Presidents’ Academy event hosted by the NC State College of Education’s Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research.

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Dec. 3 | Dallas Herring Lecture

NC State honors the legacy of Dallas Herring, a pillar of the North Carolina Community College system, by hosting the annual Dallas Herring Lecture. It invites top community college leaders to speak on urgent and emerging topics, framing how to address the issues and proposing a path forward. This year's speaker was Dr. Sanford “Sandy” Shugart, who has served since 2000 as the fourth president of Valencia College in greater Orlando, Florida. Dr. Shugart spoke on “Ecosystem Thinking in Higher Education: The Future of Transfer.”

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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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NILIE

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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NC State College of Education Celebrates Grand Opening of Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research

The NC State College of Education held an opening reception for its Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, at the center’s new location at 706 Hillsborough Street in Raleigh. Nearly 100 guests, including many […]

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Valencia College President Sanford ‘Sandy’ Shugart: ‘Dramatic Improvements in the Transfer Ecosystem’ Needed to Help Students Transition from Community Colleges to Universities

Nearly 80% of all community college students say they hope to ultimately earn a bachelor’s degree, but only about 15% are able to successfully transfer to a four-year institution and graduate within six years. This imbalance is why Sanford “Sandy” […]

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