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Nash News | February 12, 2021 NCC Learns and Adapts During the Pandemic Nearly one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty and staff at Nash Community College have learned and grown together while continuing to educate the local workforce despite many unknowns and obstacles. In March 2020, NCC adjusted campus operations and transitioned 90 percent of in-person courses, in part or in whole, to the online learning format. "We never closed,” NCC President Dr. Lew Hunnicutt said. “During spring break, we assessed what the future of instructional delivery would look like and we implemented continuity plans with student success and safety as our priorities. We have had a remarkable response from students and employees throughout the transition of instruction and services to a remote format.” Emergency medical services, law enforcement, fire, healthcare and other programs deemed essential in the response to the pandemic were among the programs that continued to meet on campus with strict safety protocols in place. “Our content required face-to-face course sessions for skills assessments and mastery,” Emergency Management Services Department Chair Olivia Moss said. “The students attended clinicals in the hospital and in our high fidelity simulation laboratories.” The increased demand for essential employees due to the pandemic resulted in enrollment increases in first responder programs. Read More Around Campus Students recently participated in a General, Organic & Biochemistry lab in which they measured the effects of ripening on nutrients in foods and determined the calorie content of various nuts. Led by Biology Professor, Holly Carmichael, students set up a calorimeter that captured the heat released from the nuts as they burned. From the temperature change of the water in the calorimeter, students estimated the amount of heat energy released. Did you know there is a student member of the NCC Board of Trustees? Many people may not realize the president of the Student Government Association represents the student body as a non-voting member of the College’s Board of Trustees. Kody Wooten is NCC's SGA president for the 2020-2021 academic year. In the photo, he is preparing for next week's board meeting. Kody was born in Wilson, NC. He is a veteran of the North Carolina Army National Guard where he served four years as a combat medic. He is a student in NCC’s Associate Degree Nursing program. Copyright © 2021 Nash Community College. All Rights Reserved.
Nash News | February 12, 2021
NCC Learns and Adapts During the Pandemic
Nearly one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty and staff at Nash Community College have learned and grown together while continuing to educate the local workforce despite many unknowns and obstacles.
In March 2020, NCC adjusted campus operations and transitioned 90 percent of in-person courses, in part or in whole, to the online learning format. "We never closed,” NCC President Dr. Lew Hunnicutt said. “During spring break, we assessed what the future of instructional delivery would look like and we implemented continuity plans with student success and safety as our priorities. We have had a remarkable response from students and employees throughout the transition of instruction and services to a remote format.”
Emergency medical services, law enforcement, fire, healthcare and other programs deemed essential in the response to the pandemic were among the programs that continued to meet on campus with strict safety protocols in place. “Our content required face-to-face course sessions for skills assessments and mastery,” Emergency Management Services Department Chair Olivia Moss said. “The students attended clinicals in the hospital and in our high fidelity simulation laboratories.” The increased demand for essential employees due to the pandemic resulted in enrollment increases in first responder programs.
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Students recently participated in a General, Organic & Biochemistry lab in which they measured the effects of ripening on nutrients in foods and determined the calorie content of various nuts.
Led by Biology Professor, Holly Carmichael, students set up a calorimeter that captured the heat released from the nuts as they burned. From the temperature change of the water in the calorimeter, students estimated the amount of heat energy released.
Did you know there is a student member of the NCC Board of Trustees? Many people may not realize the president of the Student Government Association represents the student body as a non-voting member of the College’s Board of Trustees.
Kody Wooten is NCC's SGA president for the 2020-2021 academic year. In the photo, he is preparing for next week's board meeting.
Kody was born in Wilson, NC. He is a veteran of the North Carolina Army National Guard where he served four years as a combat medic. He is a student in NCC’s Associate Degree Nursing program.
Copyright © 2021 Nash Community College. All Rights Reserved.