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Keep Truckin’: North Carolina Community Colleges awards $2 million in grants to address truck driver shortage
Last fall, American Trucking Associations announced a shortage of 78,000 truck drivers nationwide – a shortage that affects the entire economy, but one that community colleges are equipped to fix.
North Carolina community colleges see 10-percent enrollment growth in adult learners, nearly 20-percent jump for short-term courses
North Carolina community colleges saw double digit enrollment increases for adult learners with particularly strong growth in short-term workforce and continuing education courses as a part of a focused recruitment plan for students older than 25 years old.