VGCC names interim president
The Vance-Granville Community College Board of Trustees has selected Dr. Angela R. Ballentine, currently the college’s Vice President of Instruction, to be the interim president for the institution. At its regular meeting on Aug. 19, the State Board of Community Colleges approved the VGCC board’s selection of Ballentine. Effective Sept. 1, she will take the reins from Dr. Randy Parker, who is leaving VGCC to become the next president of Guilford Technical Community College. Ballentine (pictured above) will serve as interim president until the Board of Trustees completes its presidential search .
Ballentine, who lives in Raleigh, has worked at VGCC since 1991, first as an instructor and then as program head for Radiography . In that capacity, she was named VGCC Faculty Member of the Year in 1996. Ballentine became Dean of Health Sciences in 1998 and was promoted to Vice President of Instruction in 2007. In her current position, Ballentine is responsible for the staffing, program planning, oversight, budgeting, quality, integrity, research, implementation, and development of all VGCC curriculum programs and satellite campuses. Parker recognized Ballentine with a President’s Leadership Award in 2010 after she was instrumental in the creation and implementation of the four Early College High Schools that VGCC operates in partnership with local public school systems. VGCC has more early college programs than any other community college in North Carolina and at one time had more than any community college in the nation.
“During almost two decades as a key member of the Vance-Granville Community College team, Angela Ballentine has consistently demonstrated excellence,” said VGCC Board of Trustees chairman Donald Seifert, Sr. of Henderson. “She knows the college inside and out, and has spent many years helping to meet the educational needs of our communities while delivering high-quality instruction for our students. My fellow trustees and I feel that Dr. Ballentine is ideally suited to effectively lead VGCC during this period of transition.”
A Rockingham County native, Ballentine earned both a bachelor’s degree in biology at Greensboro College and a certification from the Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital School of Radiologic Technology in 1987. She worked as a radiologic technologist and mammography specialist for several years before joining VGCC. She later earned both a master’s degree in adult and community college education and a doctorate in higher education administration at North Carolina State University. Ballentine is a graduate of the North Carolina Community College Leadership Program and has attended the Thomas Lakin Institute for Mentored Leadership and the Academy for Community College Leadership, Innovation, and Modeling at N.C. State. She is a member of the Oxford Rotary Club and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
“I would like to thank the members of the Board of Trustees for selecting me to serve as interim president,” Ballentine said. “It will be an honor and a privilege to lead our outstanding faculty, staff, and students through this transition period.”
