Leaders at the 2018 Dallas Herring Lecture.

Equipping Leaders, Changing Lives

2019-2020 Annual Report

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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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Learning from the Best: Durham Tech seeks external assessment from Aspen Institute, Achieving the Dream, and Belk Center

The Belk Center is pleased to work with Aspen Institute’s Center for College Excellence and Achieving the Dream to develop a joint approach to assessing existing institutional efforts against key student outcomes, and provide recommendations to inform Durham Tech’s strategic focus. The goal is to help the College emerge from the pandemic positioned to succeed while identifying priorities and new directions from best-in-class institutions.

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Research Brief by Belk Center’s Dr. Sarah A. Deal on the Relationship Between Participation in Career and College Promise and Community College Attainment

This research brief by Belk Center Research Associate and 2020 graduate of the Educational Policy Leadership and Human Development Program, Sarah A. Deal, Ph.D., is the first of a series that addresses the relationship between North Carolina’s dual enrollment program, Career and College Promise (CCP), and community college attainment in the state.

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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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Community College

[Video] EdNC: An Overview of the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research

Staff with the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research describe their mission and work in this video produced by EdNC.

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Belk Center Brings Community College Presidents, Trustees Together to Discuss Ways to Improve Student Outcomes, Economic Mobility at 1st Presidents’ Academy

COLFAX, N.C. — myFutureNC — a statewide commission focused on educational attainment that includes former state legislators and other leaders from education, business, philanthropy and nonprofit organizations — has set a goal for 2 million adults in North Carolina to […]

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