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Durham Tech is a growing institution in North Carolina, serving more than 18,000 students annually across seven campuses in Durham and Orange counties while also providing various online courses. The College is accredited and offers more than 100 associate degrees and certificates for students seeking university transfer or immediate employment.
Continuing Education at Durham Tech offers job search and job skills enhancement courses for the Durham community. They are free to participants who are unemployed, have been notified of a layoff, or are underemployed (including students).
The Durham Tech Community Health Lab recently was among organizations honored by Duke through two different awards.
In partnership with the Duke Outpatient Clinic, the Community Health Lab received the 2024 Interprofessional Education Team Excellence Award, which honors teams for extraordinary accomplishments and service in interprofessional education and care.
In partnership with the Duke Outpatient Clinic, the Community Health Lab received the 2024 Interprofessional Education Team Excellence Award, which honors teams for extraordinary accomplishments and service in interprofessional education and care.
Chef Betty Redwood-Brown, Durham Tech culinary arts instructor, is spearheading a new partnership between the College and the Orange Correctional Center in Hillsborough in which she is teaching inmates cooking skills.
“I’m excited to be the instructor,” she said. “It’s awesome!”
Redwood-Brown has a history of working organizations outside the classroom. She said the Orange Correctional program played into her passion for reaching out into the community.
“I’m excited to be the instructor,” she said. “It’s awesome!”
Redwood-Brown has a history of working organizations outside the classroom. She said the Orange Correctional program played into her passion for reaching out into the community.
The Automotive Continuing Education curriculum has courses for novices to experienced mechanics. Learn more about it can help you start or continue your career.
The Durham Tech Foundation has welcomed three distinguished community leaders to its Board of Directors who bring extensive professional experience and valuable community connections. Kelly Calabria, Emilee Collins, and Kenneth Gibbs have demonstrated their dedication to the local community through their leadership and advocacy roles and are committed to advancing Durham Tech’s mission.
Due to the strong U.S. economy in the 1980s, the presence of Japanese businesses boomed throughout the country, including more than 40 new or relocated Japanese facilities in North Carolina alone.
In 1987, an independent federal agency, Japan-United States Friendship Commission approved a $22,891 grant for Durham Technical Community College to lead a new project of lectures called “Instruction to the American Production Worker in a Japanese Factory.”
The North Carolina Department of Community Colleges (now North Carolina Community Colleges System Office) and the Japan Center at North Carolina State University also funded $41,791 to support this project.
In 1987, an independent federal agency, Japan-United States Friendship Commission approved a $22,891 grant for Durham Technical Community College to lead a new project of lectures called “Instruction to the American Production Worker in a Japanese Factory.”
The North Carolina Department of Community Colleges (now North Carolina Community Colleges System Office) and the Japan Center at North Carolina State University also funded $41,791 to support this project.
Pulitzer Prize winner and former Durham Technical Community College student Elizabeth Fenn will be the college’s 2023 Spring Commencement keynote speaker.
Dr. Fenn won the Pulitzer in the history category in 2015 for her book “Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People,” which explores the role of the Native American tribe over the course of centuries
Dr. Fenn won the Pulitzer in the history category in 2015 for her book “Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People,” which explores the role of the Native American tribe over the course of centuries
Careers: Computer programmers create, modify, and test the code and scripts that allow computer applications to run.
U.S. Rep. David Price joined Durham Technical Community College President J.B. Buxton and Wake Technical Community College President Scott Ralls in celebrating the $1.2 million Community Project Funding grant championed by Rep. Price to support the new workforce partnership between RTP Bio and the two colleges.
Durham Tech and Wake Tech announced a joint RTP Bio partnership in March – a new workforce development collaboration that unites biotechnology, biomanufacturing, and biopharmaceutical talent pipelines of the two community colleges in the Research Triangle Park region.
Congressman Price said that $1.2 million in funding that he was able to secure for the RTP Bio Workforce Development Project was included in the recently passed Fiscal Year 2022 appropriations omnibus, which included critical direct spending opportunities referred to as Community Project Funding.
Durham Tech and Wake Tech announced a joint RTP Bio partnership in March – a new workforce development collaboration that unites biotechnology, biomanufacturing, and biopharmaceutical talent pipelines of the two community colleges in the Research Triangle Park region.
Congressman Price said that $1.2 million in funding that he was able to secure for the RTP Bio Workforce Development Project was included in the recently passed Fiscal Year 2022 appropriations omnibus, which included critical direct spending opportunities referred to as Community Project Funding.