VGCC Fall Enrollment Sets Record; Trustees Get Construction Report
Enrollment continues to grow at Vance-Granville Community College, and the school set a new record high with 4,345 curriculum students signed up for Fall Semester.
President Robert A. Miller reported these enrollment figures to the college Board of Trustees at their bi-monthly meeting Sept. 15. He also said the fall enrollment was a 3 percent increase over Fall Semester 2002 curriculum enrollment of 4,219.
Since 1995, curriculum enrollment at Vance-Granville has grown 77 percent, Miller told the trustees. VGCC now has the 12th largest enrollment of the North Carolina Community College System’s 58 schools.
“I predict we will see an even larger increase next fall with the addition of several new programs and getting the classroom space in which to put them,” the president said.
The biggest increase was in the technical field, which signed up 2,298 students, 261 more than in 2002. Vocational programs scored the highest percentage gain, 25 percent, with 531 students enrolled, compared to 426 last year.
CONSTRUCTION UPDATE
The classrooms that President Miller said the school will gain will come in a new 52,000 square-foot, three-story building that will be complete on the main campus this month.
Students are expected to move by the beginning of October into the new building, which will be the largest on VGCC’s four campuses and will increase facilities at the main campus by 28 percent, said Trustee T.W. Ellis Jr.
Most of the technology instruction and computer labs will be relocated to the new building. Miller told the trustees there will be more than 500 personal computers in the building. “You cannot have more technology in a building,” he said. “Each classroom will have overhead projectors and all the latest innovations in technology, and classes can be transmitted and received from other schools through the Online Learning program in the Information Highway classroom.”
Continuing Education, Public Services, Small Business Center, Occupational Extension and literacy will all be headquartered in the new building.
Dan Knight of Dove, Knight & Whitehurst, the Rocky Mount firm that designed the building, told the trustees that, as an architect, he was really proud of the building. “It continues a tradition that started with the beginning of this campus in 1976,” he said.
Knight also updated the trustees on other planned construction. Plans for a new building at the Warren County Campus have been approved, and bids for its construction will be opened Sept. 25. If all goes according to plan, construction should begin within a month, and it will take about one year to complete.
The 14,900 square-foot, one-story classroom is planned behind the current buildings at the campus on Ridgeway Street in Warrenton.
Drawings have been sent to the State Board of Construction in Raleigh for approval of almost a 10,000 square-foot addition to the Student Services Building on the main campus. Also, the design plans have been submitted to Raleigh for a two-story, 16,800 square-foot building at the Franklin County Campus. Plans are to begin construction on that on July 1, 2004, and take about one year to build.
All these construction projects and one planned later for the South Campus in Granville County are being funded by the Higher Education Facility Bonds approved by voters in 2000. Vance-Granville will receive $17.1 million in these funds over a five-year period.
BUDGET APPROVED
The trustees gave their final approval to a fiscal year 2003-2004 budget for Vance-Granville Community College totaling $33,080,911.
Finance Committee Chairman T.W. Ellis Jr. presented the budget and pointed out that $17.7 million comes from state funds, $6.6 million from federal funds for various programs, $1.7 million in county funds from Vance, Granville, Warren and Franklin counties, almost $3 million from other sources such as tuition, fees and books, and about $4 million in construction funds.
PERSONNEL CHANGES
The trustees approved the hiring of six new instructors for Vance-Granville, approved the retirement of one employee and the resignation of two others.
New instructors hired were:
Dr. Lillian R. Johnson, biology. The Raleigh resident comes from employment with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the UNC School of Pharmacy.
Peter H. Metzner, psychology. He has been a part-time instructor for VGCC and lives in Hillsborough.
Louise B. Terry, criminal justice-high schools. She’s a VGCC and Mount Olive College graduate, and a former Henderson and Butner police officer.
Gwenn R. Bridges, nurse aide I & II. The Henderson resident is a VGCC and N.C. Central University nursing graduate who worked at John Umstead Hospital in Butner and who has been a part-time instructor for Vance-Granville for 18 months.
Maura S. Barber, early childhood. A graduate of the University of Connecticut and Southwest Texas State University, she lives in Raleigh where she was director of Kindercare.
Wallace T. Evans, cosmetology. The owner of Renaissance Styles in Henderson for 20 years, he has been a part-time VGCC instructor three years.
Nancy A. Tunstall, coordinator and instructor at Warren County Campus was approved for retirement effective Feb. 1, 2004.
Resignations were accepted for Shernita W. Telfair, instructor for criminal justice in high schools, and Julie Zulewski, early childhood instructor at Franklin County Campus.
Architect Dan Knight shows the Vance-Granville Community College Board of Trustees the design drawings for a classroom building for which construction will begin soon at the Warren County Campus. Looking on at left is Board Chairman Donald C. Seifert Sr., and Trustee T.W. Ellis Jr. is at right.
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