NCCCFA Spring 2012
| Promoting Excellence North Carolina | |
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 Since its inception, it has worked with the North Carolina Community College Trustees Association, the North Carolina Community College Presidents Association, the North Carolina Association of Instructional Administrators, and with the North Carolina Community College System office. The North Carolina Community College System is considered among the best in the nation. We train or retrain workers, equip adults with basic skills, teach living skills, and provide the first two years of a four-year education. However, with economic conditions as they have been, we are doing more and more with less and less in the way of resources and funding. It is imperative that those of us who are daily in the classrooms and labs with the students use concerted effort to provide the excellence in education our students need. We can only do that if we have an effective presence in the state. NCCCFA provides us that presence.
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Our Mission |
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| The mission of the North Carolina Community College Faculty Association is to promote excellence throughout the North Carolina Community College System. To fulfill this mission, the North Carolina Community College Faculty Association is committed to but not limited to the following goals:
· To foster professionalism among community college faculty. · To provide professional development opportunities and resources focused on teaching excellence and student success. · To promote cooperation among these groups in identifying and acting to meet the needs of community colleges and their faculty. · To raise awareness of the critical role that North Carolina's community colleges and their faculty play in meeting the education and training needs of the state's residents. · To advocate policies and legislation--from the local level through state level--that allow colleges to attract, employ, retain, and reward highly qualified faculty. · To establish and maintain an organization active in representing full-time and part-time community college faculty interests and concerns at the state level.
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| Why Join? | |
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Professional Development · Biennial conference with many first-rate workshops and nationally known speakers· Faculty Scholarships to the NC Great Teachers Retreat · Faculty Grants for special projects  Public Awareness Efforts · Point-of-view articles about community college needs · TV and radio appearances by NCCCFA leaders Legislative Advocacy of Faculty Issues · Meetings with NCCCS President to develop legislative strategy · Meetings with legislators regularly · Meetings with the Governor and his aides · Organization of Legislative Network throughout state for local advocacy 
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