Community Colleges Have a

$19 Billion Annual Impact

on the North Carolina Economy

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THE BIG ROI

of North Carolina Community Colleges.

North Carolina’s secret sauce for attracting new jobs? Community colleges

March 17, 2022

BY CHARLES DUNCAN | Spectrum News 1 GREENSBORO, N.C. — The students huddled around, leaning in as the milling machine began shaving steel from the block, cutting precisely the right shape for a machine part. Machining Instructor Derek Seeke talks them through what’s happening as one student runs the controls. Seeke and a half-dozen students watch the machine run in one corner of the cavernous Center for Advanced Manufacturing at Guilford County Technical Community College. There are rows of equipment, it almost looks like a factory floor. Students here are training to be part of North Carolina’s emerging manufacturing economy. The new

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This report was developed from a working group of community partners formed to collaborate with Emsi Burning Glass to produce an Economic Impact Study (EIS) and five Program-Specific Economic Impact Studies (PSEIS) for each of the 58 community colleges and the combined system with support from the North Carolina General Assembly.