{"id":8401,"date":"2018-11-02T13:50:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T13:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/?p=8401"},"modified":"2018-11-02T13:59:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T13:59:31","slug":"cdl-program-recognized-with-ambassador-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2018\/11\/cdl-program-recognized-with-ambassador-award\/","title":{"rendered":"CDL Program Recognized with Ambassador Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8402\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8402\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8402 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ambassador-Award-1024x709.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ambassador-Award-1024x709.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ambassador-Award-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ambassador-Award-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ambassador-Award-768x532.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured from left: NCC President Dr. Bill Carver,\u00a0Vice President, Corporate and Economic Development and\u00a0Chief Economic Officer\u00a0Wendy Marlowe, CDL Coordinator\/Instructor Gary Bunn and CDL Program Director\u00a0Amy Cressionnie<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"gmail_default\">\u200b<\/span>Each year, the Nash Community College Ambassador Award is given to a full-time employee or group of employees who provide outstanding representation of the College in the community. The 2018 recipient is the Nash Community College CDL program.<\/p>\n<p>Together, Nash Community College and the SAGE Corporation, the nation\u2019s premier operator of professional truck driving programs, offer truck driver training by providing skill development with maximum actual driving time. SAGE is a commercial driver training program teaching the in-depth, hands-on truck driving experience sought by employers.<\/p>\n<p>Students drive trucks during training which serve as \u2018mobile billboards\u2019 throughout the region representing the college program. Both SAGE and the Nash Community College CDL program are known as regional ambassadors promoting the college.<\/p>\n<p>NCC has its own CDL examiners, serves as an official CDL testing facility and is a member of the North Carolina Truckers Association. The truck driver training program offers continuous enrollment, affordable tuition and employer tuition reimbursement plans available to qualified applicants. Students receive lifetime job placement assistance, a guarantee of only one student per truck, and small classes with individualized attention.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Amy Cressionnie, Program Director at (252) 451-8357.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bEach year, the Nash Community College Ambassador Award is given to a full-time employee or group of employees who provide outstanding representation of the College in the community. The 2018&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2018\/11\/cdl-program-recognized-with-ambassador-award\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8401"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8405,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8401\/revisions\/8405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}