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Belk Center Annual Reports

Read the 2024-2025 Annual Report

As we reflect on our first six years, the Belk Center’s mission remains as focused and urgent as ever: to equip community college leaders with the tools, research and relationships needed to advance student success.

The 2024-2025 year continued that momentum. We engaged leaders at every stage of their careers – from emerging professionals to seasoned presidents – through initiatives like NC State College of Education’s Doctor of Education in Community College Leadership, the North Carolina Community College Leadership Program and our newly launched Aspiring Presidents Institute. At the same time, we expanded professional learning opportunities for faculty and staff at community colleges through our four statewide Teaching and Learning Hubs.

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2025 Belk Center Staff

Read the 2023-2024 Annual Report

The 2023-2024 year marks the fifth year of the Belk Center and, while much has grown and changed over the years, our commitments have remained the same. During the last 12 months, we have published findings from our four Teaching and Learning Hubs, developed a five-point conceptual framework to increase adult learner enrollment and completion rates at community colleges, expanded our programming to support rural communities in North Carolina, and so much more.

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2024 Belk Center Staff

Read the 2022-2023 Annual Report


As one of the Belk Center’s busiest years to date, 2022-2023 allowed us to launch new initiatives, expand innovative programming and collaborate with educators, researchers and policymakers to to advance community college student outcomes in North Carolina and beyond. Over the past year, we have engaged with community colleges through our commitments to leadership and learning, research and insights, and partnerships
and convenings.

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2023 Belk Center Staff

Read the 2021-2022 Annual Report

Together, the Belk Center’s perennial programs and innovative enterprises catalyzed college leaders to effect change throughout the community college system; created relevant, contextual, and accessible knowledge to shape policy and practice; and convened key stakeholders who have the resources and relationships to collectively address pressing needs.

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2022 Belk Center Staff

Read the 2020-2021 Annual Report

With eyes fixed on our mission at the Belk Center, we have seized every opportunity to advance it. In the past 12 months, we have expanded our focus on teaching and learning—both in research and practice—pursued opportunities to invest in new community college presidents, created spaces to identify and respond to emerging issues, and enhanced our support of emerging leaders enrolled in NC State’s Community College Leadership doctoral program.

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2021 Belk Center Staff