The five courses which College of The Albemarle is offering Fall Semester 1997 are all college curriculum courses identically the same as courses offered on-campus. Completion earns semester hour credits applicable to associate degrees. All courses meet the description of courses in the North Carolina Community College System's Common Course Library. Three of the five courses are approved for transfer under the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement between the University of North Carolina and the North Carolina Community College System. We were the first state to recognize that training people for specific jobs in specific companies was a legitimate enterprise for a responsible and responsive government.
Good training leads to a long list of advantages.
Advantages that have put North Carolina at the top in the nation for new plant sitings in four out of the last five years, sustaining a trend that has made us a leading manufacturing state. The surprising fact is that no other state has a higher proportion of its workforce employed in manufacturing operations. No matter where you are in the state, you're only a 30-minute drive from one of North Carolina's 58 community colleges. Last year more than 175,000 people were enrolled in 239 different technical and vocational curriculums.