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Belk Center Annual Reports

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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The Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research at North Carolina State University held their annual all-staff and faculy meeting on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. The center provided their staff and faculty with headshots and a team photo. Additionally, the meeting was documented by photographing the meeting and staging some working/people-in-action images for marketing and communications.

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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Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research advisory board meeting and group photo announcement of $25 million grant from Belk Foundation in support of the Belk Center 2022 Dallas Herring lecture featuring Dr. Mike Flores and Dr. Janet Spriggs

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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Belk Center staff group photo