Faculty and staff from Edgecombe Community College joined a number of other community leaders in welcoming students to Baskerville Elementary School Monday morning. Thanks to a school supply drive that ECC employees had previously taken on, the college was also able to provide school supplies to the students and instructors during their school spirit event.

Monday marked the first day of classes for the students and schools impacted by the county line merger. Now, students on the Edgecombe County side of Rocky Mount will be served by Edgecombe County Public Schools. Supplies from the ECC drive were also distributed this week to the other schools involved in the merger, including D.S. Johnson Elementary, Fairview Elementary, and JW Parker Middle.

The ECC Barbering Club organized a charitable event on August 24 to provide free haircuts and school supplies to children in the local community. The Back to School Cuts for Kids event was held on the Rocky Mount campus and provided 44 children with haircuts. Essential school supplies were also distributed. ECC students and staff volunteered their time and expertise to ensure that each child left feeling confident and ready for the new school year. For more information about ECC's Barbering program, please contact mckoyr@edgecombe.edu.

Tameka Kenan-Norman has been named executive director of public information and institutional advancement at ECC. The more than 20-year communications veteran most recently worked as a news anchor for WBOC-TV, a CBS affiliate in Salisbury, Md. Prior to that, she gained grant writing and development experience as the chief development and communications officer at SHORE UP! Inc., a nonprofit that serves a seven-county area on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

ECC President, Dr. Greg McLeod, will be a guest on WCPS radio on Saturday morning, August 31 at 9 a.m. Some of the topics he will discuss include enrollment for the fall semester, how the college will be involved in training for Natron Energy, Inc., the continuing education class schedule, the ECC golf classic, the Edgecombe Performance Series and more. The host of the broadcast is Na'im Akbar, who earned a college transfer degree at ECC in 1998. Catch the interview at FM 96.3.

The 2024 Fall Semester Continuing Education class schedule is available! See upcoming classes in Occupational Training, Public Safety Training, Small Business Center, Lifelong Learning, and more. Scholarships may be available in some programs for qualifying students.