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<\/a>President Biden and Dr. Biden spoke about how career-connected learning and workforce training programs are preparing students for good-paying jobs in North Carolina and throughout the country.<\/p>\n\u201cTheir focus on workforce development allows us to highlight what we and all 57 other community colleges within the North Carolina Community College System do best,\u201d said Dr. Hunnicutt. \u201cWe train skilled workers for the growing North Carolina economy.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Jason Brannan, Instructor of Computer-Integrated Machining at NCC, Wanda Tyson, Director of Applied Engineering Technologies at NCC, \u201cWe are so incredibly proud of all our students and the work we do here at NCC,\u201d said Alex Barnhill, dean of curriculum career and technical education at NCC.<\/p>\n NCC continues to support the needs of workforce development throughout core areas of the world and economy to train, grow, and develop our future leaders of Nash County and America.<\/p>\n \u201cAt NCC, our students leave us with the skills required to directly enter and succeed in the local, state, and regional workforce,\u201d said Dr. Hunnicutt.<\/p>\n Dr. Biden notes their support of community colleges and that institutions like NCC are some of the best-kept secrets in the world because of their true impact on education, the economy and the world as a whole, yet lack of significant conversation.<\/p>\n In greater fashion, NCC is the first to do it.<\/p>\n \u201cOur understanding is that this may be the first time a sitting U.S. President and First Lady have visited a North Carolina community college at the same time, and that is a great source of pride for all of us on Team Nash,\u201d said Dr. Hunnicutt.<\/p>\n Nash Community College hosted President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden in a presidential visit on Friday, June 9. \u201cWe are truly excited that both the President and… Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15208"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15222,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15208\/revisions\/15222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> and NCC Industrial Systems students gave President Biden, Dr. Biden, Governor Roy Cooper, and Congressman Don Davis a tour and demonstration of the Advanced Manufacturing Robotics System.<\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"