{"id":9052,"date":"2019-04-17T11:19:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T11:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/?p=9052"},"modified":"2019-04-17T11:19:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T11:19:24","slug":"scholars-attend-global-is-local-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2019\/04\/scholars-attend-global-is-local-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholars Attend Global is Local Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, April 12,\u00a0members of the Nash Community College Global\u00a0Scholars\u00a0(GS) program traveled to\u00a0Winterville, NC for the\u00a0Worldview: Global is Local Initiative at Pitt Community College.\u00a0Participants included students\u00a0Emily Allen and Lorie Futrell, along with Erika J. Simon and Katie Hoffer, Co-Directors of the GS program.<\/p>\n

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Students\u00a0Emily Allen and Lorie Futrell\u00a0were honored by UNC Worldview as the only students involved in\u00a0a special panel discussion with industry leaders about\u00a0meeting the ever-expanding needs in eastern North Carolina’s global economy.<\/p>\n

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Global is Local at Pitt Community College included presentations from faculty at UNC Chapel Hill, on-site visits to global companies in eastern North Carolina, and a panel discussion featuring NCC students. Prompted by the queries of student attendees, panelists discussed changes in industry, skill sets and traits needed and required by current and future workers, and the role that community colleges play in meeting the needs of the modern workforce.<\/p>\n

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For more information on the Nash Community College Global Scholars program, email\u00a0nccgps@nashcc.edu<\/b><\/a>\u00a0or visit the\u00a0GS Program Website<\/b><\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday, April 12,\u00a0members of the Nash Community College Global\u00a0Scholars\u00a0(GS) program traveled to\u00a0Winterville, NC for the\u00a0Worldview: Global is Local Initiative at Pitt Community College.\u00a0Participants included students\u00a0Emily Allen and Lorie Futrell,… 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":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052"}],"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=9052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9056,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052\/revisions\/9056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}