Podcasts about western piedmont community college

Most of our community knows about Burke County Public Schools and Western Piedmont Community College, but do you know their leaders? What about how the two educational institutions partner together to create opportunities for workforce development? BCPS and WPCC are impacting our community in many different ways and together they are preparing more and more for the workforce or higher education. In this podcast, we touch on many different topics with WPCC President Dr. Joel Welch and BCPS Superintendent Dr. Mike Swan, including a special opportunity juniors and seniors have to attend Pioneer Preview at WPCC! So much good information is jam-packed into a 30-minute podcast, you don't want to miss it!

La'Meshia Whittington is a Professor in the Division of Sociology at Meredith College. She is also the Deputy Director for Advance Carolina and the Campaigns Director for the North Carolina Black Alliance. She is the co-convener of the NC Black & Brown Policy Network, former National Democracy Campaigner for Friends of the Earth, Chairwoman of the FRENC Fund Administration, Founding member of Democracy Green, member of the Burke Women's Fund in Western NC and the former NC spokesperson on fair courts for The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Professor Whittington leads the work on intersectional democracy and environmental justice, she was a co-author of NC Senate Bill 673, prioritizing environmentally contaminated communities-of-color in voting rights, and a co-author in several Pro-Democracy North Star legislation bills. Professor Whittington is a member of the NC PFAS Team anchoring AFFF legislation, and a convener of the Black Firefighters Fighting PFAS Collective. Professor Whittington has created and co-convened national, regional, and statewide tours and workshops on environmental justice, namely chemical contaminants, and dirty corporations. Professor Whittington continually works with the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, DHHS and government agencies to ground community needs and strategies in alleviating health disparities in Black and Brown communities. Professor Whittington led the development of a statewide map to highlight the intersection of environmental justice contamination zones and the frequency in which they are located within gerrymandered Black majority voting districts. Professor Whittington is a petitioner in two active petitions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, for more information: PFAS and 1,4 Dioxane. Professor Whittington is an Afro-Indigenous woman from North Carolina, hailing from a former environmental justice settlement: The Kingdom of the Happy Land. She received her education at Western Piedmont Community College and Meredith College. She is also a classically trained instrumentalist performing over 7 instruments! Instagram: @Nebiyah_ Twitter: @LaMeshiaLe www.AdvanceCarolina.org www.NCblackalliance.org www.democracygreen.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow Therese "Tee" Forton-Barnes and The Green Living Gurus: Website and blog: thegreenlivinggurus.com Facebook  Healthy Living Group Facebook Green Living  Gurus Page Instagram YouTube Services For further info contact: Therese Forton-Barnes Email: Greenlivinggurus@gmail.com Cell: 716-868-8868

Michael Helmick has a career in education spanning decades. For the past 10 years, he's been a leader in the NC community college system. We sat down with him to listen to his reflection as he leaves Western Piedmont Community College and moves into retirement.

  Mary is a retired professor of history at Western Piedmont Community College and stops by to talk about the history of Morganton and Burke County. Topics covered include the history of Quaker Meadows, the Revolutionary War, Thomas Burke, the infamous murder at the courthouse, the Civil War, the Spanish settlers at the Joara site, Daniel Morgan, Broughton & The School for the Deaf, the general importance of history and living through racism. Local music provided by THING SLOTH. THIS EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Western Piedmont Community College offers 35 programs to students in Burke County. The Gourd Museum in Angier draws visitors from around the world. And Dr. John Lucas is a 2013 NC Award recipient.

Amateur & professional astronomers gather in Chapel Hill for an annual star gazing party. State & federal officials are working to bring water back to the Dismal Swamp. And State Auditor Beth Wood talks about NC's Medicaid system.

Rick Sullivan takes us to the Central Piedmont region of the state to visit Rowan-Cabarrus Community College. RCCC has its North Campus in Salisbury, South Campus and the Cabarrus Business and Technology Center in Concord and the North Carolina Research Campus, Cloverleaf Center and R3 Center in Kannapolis.

Rick Sullivan takes us to the Central Piedmont region of the state to visit Rowan-Cabarrus Community College. RCCC has its North Campus in Salisbury, South Campus and the Cabarrus Business and Technology Center in Concord and the North Carolina Research Campus, Cloverleaf Center and R3 Center in Kannapolis.

We continue our series on NC's community colleges with Western Piedmont Community College. And the inaugural Hargrove Communications Law & Policy Colloquium focused on The Future of Television News.

Rick Sullivan takes us to the west, to the city of Morganton, and Burke County's longest standing source of higher education, Western Piedmont Community College.

Rick Sullivan takes us to the west, to the city of Morganton, and Burke County's longest standing source of higher education, Western Piedmont Community College.