Forsyth Technical Community College President Janet Spriggs sent the college’s 2019 graduates off with a bit of advice for the next phase of their lives.

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Janet Spriggs’ first order of business, after becoming the seventh president of Forsyth Technical Community College, was to meet the leaders of the community. This included Sen. Paul Lowe, D-Forsyth, who met Spriggs for lunch at the West End Cafe. Their conversation quickly turned to the large number of students who graduate high school in Forsyth County but do not attend any postsecondary institution. That number, 41% of high school graduates over the past three years, was troubling to them both.

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Shereen Abdelfattah emigrated to the United States from Egypt with her family in 2002 because her husband was completing a college degree at the time. They moved to the Triad, North Carolina, area in 2009. Around 2014, she began to notice an influx of Syrian refugees in her community and wanted to support them, knowing they’d be coming from having lived through a war and trying to resettle into a new country. What better way than through food, she thought.
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Forsyth Technical Community College today announced that it has joined Achieving the Dream (ATD), a network of more than 220 colleges in 43 states dedicated to improving student success. As a Network institution, Forsyth Tech will innovate to implement, align, and scale cutting edge reforms, work with ATD coaches to build institutional capacity and connect with peers to foster learning and share information.
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On Saturday, March 30, 2019, two students and a staff member at Forsyth Tech took home three of the six awards at the North Carolina Comprehensive Community College Student Government Association Conference (NC4CSGA) held March 29-31 at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel in Durham, N.C.
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Forty-four Forsyth Tech students won awards at the 54^th Annual SkillsUSA State Leadership and Skills Conference on April 10 in Greensboro. These students will compete at the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference in Louisville, Kentucky June 24-28^th.
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Forsyth Tech’s Electrical Lineman Academy was named the Outstanding Pre-Apprenticeship Program in the state at the 2019 ApprenticeshipNC Conference banquet on April 11 in Wilmington, N.C. Sponsored by the North Carolina Community College System, ApprenticeshipNC ensures North Carolina has an innovative, relevant, effective, and efficient workforce development system that develops adaptable, work ready, skilled talent to meet the current and future needs of workers and businesses to achieve and sustain economic prosperity.
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Frequently, it’s not academic pressure which prevents students from completing their education, it’s the unexpected financial crisis that keeps students from reaching their goals.
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The North Carolina Community College Small Business Center Network (SBCN) encourages you to celebrate your local Small Businesses during National Small Business Week May 5 – 11, 2019, #DreamSmallBiz.
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Dr. Janet Spriggs was named president of Forsyth Technical Community College on Oct. 19, 2018. Spriggs was serving as the Chief Operating Officer of Rowan-Cabarrus Community College at the time of her selection. She is replacing Dr. Gary Green, who served as president from 2001 until his retirement. The announcement of her selection came 10 days after Bloomberg declared Forsyth Tech “an exemplar of what a community college ought to be.”
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