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Red Cross Blood Drive, 8 am to 3
pm; Caldwell Campus Gym
What’s Happening on Campus
December 2008 Vol 41, No. 17
The campus voice of Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute
Recovery Meeting, 12 noon; E-301
CCC&TI to Expand Trucking Program Into Catawba County
11 SGA General Assembly Meeting, 12
noon; E Building
12 Final Exams Begin
Women's Basketball vs. Wilkes
Community College, 7 pm; Home
Men’s Basketball vs. Southwest
Virginia, 2 pm; Home
Caldwell Caampus Book Buy Back, 9
am to 4 pm; Campus Bookstore
Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute’s truck driver training program announced
a new partnership with Catawba Valley Community College, expanding the program’s reach to
include training sites in Caldwell, Catawba, Gaston, Iredell and Avert' counties. Effective
January 1, CCC&TI will oversee the program’s instruction and operation in the area, continuing
chtsses at the current training site on CVCC’s East Campus in Hickory. The move comes as a
result of the continuing regional partnership among the three local community colleges
(CCC&TI, CVCC and Western Piedmont Community College) to strengthen educational offer¬
ings through more efficient use of resources.
13 Men's Basketball
та.
Southwest
Virginia, 2 pm; Home
15 Exams
Caldwell Campus Book Buy Back, 9
am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 5:30 pm;
Campus Bookstore
16 Exams
End of Fall Semester
Caldwell Campus Book Buy Back, 9
am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 5:30 pm;
Campus Bookstore
Men's Basketball
та.
Spartanburg
Methodist College, 7 pm; Away
17 Caldwell Campus Book Buy Back,
8:30 am to 1 pm; Campus Bookstore
Recovery Meeting, 12 noon; E-301
19 Silver Bells and Diamonds, The
Diamonds in Concert, 7:30 pm; J.E.
Broyhill Civic Center
20 Women’s Basketball vs. Guilford
Technical Community College, 2
pm; Away
24-2 Institution Closed
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Center Events
SGA News
Thankful for Citizenship
. and more!
Among the first in the state to offer the program, CCC&TI began truck driver training in 1990.
Though CVCC offered the program through Johnston Community College for many years, the
college began its own in 2006. Since then, the college has not received the necessary' supplemen¬
tal funding from the state to continue to make it viable to operate two duplicate high-cost pro¬
grams in such proximity to each other, explained CVCC President Garrett Hinshaw. “With the
state budget the way it is, we needed to pool our resources and efforts together and partner to
maintain quality instruction for the area,” he
Pictured left to right: Front row - CVCC
President Garrett Hinshaw, CCC&TI
President Ken Boham; Back row -
CVCC truck driver training director
Van Staley, CVCC instructor Jack
Matthews and CCC&TI Truck Driver
Training Program Director Rudy Fox.
said.
'This will be a more efficient use of taxpayer
dollars in terms of vehicles, fuel, personnel
and supplies in meeting the needs of the
area’s transportation industry',” said CCC&TI
President Ken Boham.
Catawba County commissioners have already
pledged their commitment toward construc¬
tion of a $1.5 million Transportation Facility
for CVCC on 11 acres located off Hwy. 16.
Anticipated completion date for the center is
spring 2010. That facility will also provide
opportunities for driver training in other col¬
lege program areas, such as fire and rescue
and law enforcement.
This partnership will be transparent to the
community, said Hinshaw. “Our classes
remain full, and by working with CCC&TI, we
will be able to sustain delivery of a quality
program to the area.” he added.
Boham echoed Hinshaw'’s commitment. “We
are dedicated to running a quality program
and are certainly' committed toward meeting
the needs of Catawba and Alexander counties
in addition to the Greater Hickory area,” he
said. “We are in it for the long haul."
CCC&TI is nationally certified as a
Professional Truck Driver Institute offering day, evening and weekend classes from 8 V2 to 15
weeks. For more information on upcoming courses, call 828.726.2380.
WWW.CCGti.edu • 828. 726. 2200
828.297.3811
