All roads lead to work at Forsyth Tech. Partnerships with local employers and community organizations are key tools the college uses to provide students with the most productive educational experience possible that will usher them into the workforce.
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In April of this year, Herb Burns, Forsyth Tech’s chair of Design Technologies and program coordinator for Digital Effects & Animation, visited Washington, D.C., at the request of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
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What do women want? Well, if they’re Forsyth Tech students, a lot – beginning with empowerment opportunities, help locating childcare, and counseling when the going gets rough. The Shugart Women’s Center at Forsyth Tech is a place where they can find advocacy, referrals to local agencies and information to help them reach their goals.
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Providing our students with the best possible education has always been the primary objective at Forsyth Tech. So when the college received a $2.5 million Title III grant in 2014 from the U.S. Department of Education, it immediately launched a program to improve academic success for students.
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Pamela Shortt started as Forsyth Tech’s new dean of Business & Information Technology (BIT) with a blueprint. In her first months, she’s already demonstrated her ability to build her division’s future.
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When 46-year-old Alice Torrence decided to go back to school, she gave up her job to earn her high school diploma. Then she realized, “Why stop now?” Her first accomplishment had whetted her appetite for more.
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On June 30 Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez and Representative Virginia A. Foxx visited Forsyth Tech to observe first-hand the type of innovative training programs the college is using to support regional workforce development.
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Forsyth Tech students and programs have earned many distinctions over the years. But they aren’t all created equal.

Some, like the Center for Academic Excellence (CAE) in Cyber Defense Education designation, are highly sought after. The CAE designation, awarded jointly by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is the most prestigious recognition for cybersecurity excellence a college can receive. And this year Forsyth Tech was selected as one of 44 two- and four-year colleges to receive the honor. “We are so excited about getting it,” says Dr. Deanne Wesley, department chair, Davis iTEC Center. “It puts us among the top programs in the country.”
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It’s been a long time coming, but well worth the wait. On June 1, Forsyth Tech held a grand opening for the Oak Grove Center, Phase Two, which adds 130,000 square feet of classroom, administrative and conference space to the college’s Main Campus in Winston-Salem.
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