Blog Category - College Life

Fayetteville Technical Community College

January 12, 2021

FTCC receives grant from foundation supporting machining industry

By Alicia Banks

Fayetteville Technical Community College has received a $15,000 grant from the Gene Haas Foundation (GHF). The grant will benefit the College’s Computer-Integrated Machining Department, which ...

Fayetteville Technical Community College

November 18, 2020

FTCC Opens Food Pantry to Help Needy Students

By Catherine Pritchard

Fayetteville Technical Community College has opened a food pantry on its campus to help FTCC students who are in need. The College held a ribbon-cutting ...

Fayetteville Technical Community College

October 20, 2020

Aspiring student chef leads FTCC’s World Food Day volunteer effort   

By Alicia Banks

FTCC culinary student Citronella Todd didn’t ponder long when asked the kind of event she wanted to work on for a school project.  “Feeding the ...

Fayetteville Technical Community College

July 8, 2020

FTCC offering new “class” format to start 2020 school year

By Alicia Banks

Fayetteville Technical Community College will offer “synchronous online classes” as an option for students who enroll for the 2020 school year, which begins Aug. 17. ...

Fayetteville Technical Community College

June 18, 2020

Golden LEAF grant will fund FTCC job training program for hard-to-employ individuals

By Catherine Pritchard

Fayetteville Technical Community College has received $296,535 from the Golden LEAF Foundation to provide job training and job placement assistance to individuals considered hard to ...

Fayetteville Technical Community College

May 27, 2020

Dr. DeSandra Washington of FTCC named a William C. Friday Fellow

By Catherine Pritchard

Dr. DeSandra Washington of Fayetteville Technical Community College has been selected for the 2020-2022 class of the William C. Friday Fellowship for Human Relations. Washington ...

Fayetteville Technical Community College

April 29, 2020

FTCC signs ‘Pirate Promise’ agreement with ECU

By Alicia Banks

Fayetteville Technical Community College and East Carolina University approved a new student transfer agreement Tuesday, deepening the College’s partnership with the four-year institution involving future ...

Fayetteville Technical Community College

April 23, 2020

Traveling African American museum connects past to present

By Alicia Banks

Angela Jennings sat in a chair inside the Tony Rand Student Center on FTCC’s Fayetteville campus in early March. Her hands, folded. Her eyes scanned ...

Fayetteville Technical Community College

April 10, 2020

From small town to NASA

By Alicia Banks

Brie Haynes is a future graduate of FTCC. She has always felt out of place and struggled to find where she belongs. That changed during her ...

Fayetteville Technical Community College

March 4, 2020

FTCC Students take Top Awards in Dogwood Festival Contest

By Alicia Banks

Two students from Fayetteville Technical Community College’s Advertising & Graphic Design Program claimed the 1st place and runner-up positions in the Dogwood Festival’s annual poster ...

Fayetteville Technical Community College

October 22, 2019

FTCC, Cumberland County break ground on fire and rescue training center

By Alicia Banks

Fayetteville Technical Community College’s Board of Trustees and the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners broke ground on the future site of its joint Regional Fire ...

Fayetteville Technical Community College

July 26, 2019

Campus 5K set as fundraiser for scholarships

By Alicia Banks

A competition coming to Fayetteville Technical Community College’s campus later this summer is more than just a chance for racers to improve their fitness times. ...