(For those of you who have done demos in the past, you may remember our recommending that you ask for the North Lobby as the space to do your demo. Unfortunately, the North Lobby is no longer available because a couple years ago, a group--not one from the NCCCS-- damaged the mural in the North Lobby. So the 1100 and 1200 courtyards are the next-best choices because they flank the North Lobby.)

Senator Tony Rand

North Carolina General Assembly

16 West Jones Street

Raleigh, NC 27603

Phone: (919) 733 9892

Fax: (919) 715-8346

Email: Tonyr@ncleg.net

Representative Bill Owens

North Carolina General Assembly

16 West Jones Street

Raleigh, NC 27603

Phone: (919) 733-0010

Fax: (919) 834-1814

Email: Billo@ncleg.net

6. Once you’ve got permission for a specific date, please call Suzelle Crosswhite in Senator Basnight’s office (919-733-6854). Let her know about your visit so she can put the date on the Social Calendar.

As soon as a date is confirmed, contact Chancy Kapp at the NCCC System Office

Also send an email message to Don Wildman (dlwildma@waketech.edu) listing your college, your curriculum(s) or program(s) being featured, the courtyard location, the date, and the times of your demo so that your demo can be added to the official list of demos. Having a centralized list helps all of us in Raleigh make sure each demo gets the publicity and recognition it deserves.

7. Inform your college’s public information officer about your visit, and ensure that he or she contacts your local press. Have your PIO coordinate the press coverage with Chancy Kapp at the System Office.

• The number of programs in this field offered in the CC system across the state.
•  The total number of graduates in the previous year.
•  Salary information (starting, and with experience).
•  A description of employment opportunities, job specializations, if any, and percent of graduates who are employed in NC.
• A list of companies in your area that hire the curriculum graduates.

Contact Don Wildman for model informational handouts.

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT:

This informational handout is the most important part of your demonstration. You must do a thorough and conscientious job of putting it together.

Of the many curriculum demonstrations that we have held at the legislature, all have created a positive impression on legislators except one, and that one provoked a widespread negative reaction. The person in charge of preparing the informational handout for their curriculum apparently decided that doing all that research was just too much trouble. So instead of making a handout that addressed the points above, the person just copied a handout for students that they already had that listed areas in industry where their curriculum's graduates could find work. That was it. And they passed that out to legislators. The college's demo was otherwise excellent, but because it was all show with no supporting substance, legislators reacted very negatively.

Don't let this happen to your college. Give this informational handout the serious effort that is required.

The following sources may prove useful as you prepare your handout:

a. The Program Director(s) or Department Head(s) can provide much of the
information necessary.

b. Contact employers of graduates to obtain salary information.

c. The NCCCS web site, www.ncccs.cc.nc.us, has an Adobe document called A Matter of Facts, 2007 that contains information on the number of graduates (“completers”) in all disciplines in 2005-2006. You can find this document by clicking on News & Events at the NCCCS home page and then on Publications. (You can also access it from a link under Resources at the NCCCFA web site.) Keith Brown at the System Office (919) 807-6994 may also have helpful statistical info.

d. The NC Employment Security Commission web site will help you determine the
percent of graduates who remained and worked in NC following graduation. You have to calculate it from the information provided, which is somewhat dated. Go to the NC ESC web site: <www.esc.state.nc.us>, and click on Individual Services, then Career/Info Planning, and finally Educational Institutions. The number for the ESC Labor Market Information Director is 733 2936. That office may have more updated info now that has not been published.

e. Following are some reference books with career and job information found in Wake Tech CC's library. These or similar reference books can probably be found in your college and/or county library.

Best Jobs for the 21^st Century, 2^nd ed., by J. Michael Farr and LaVerne Ludden.

Career Information Center, 7^th ed., published by Macmillan.

The Carolina Job Bank, 3^rd ed., edited by Carter Smith.

Enhanced Occupational Outlook Handbook, 4th ed., by J. Michael Farr and LaVerne Ludden.

The North Carolina Employment Guide, published by Career Resources, Chapel Hill, NC.

Occupational Outlook Handbook 2002-2003, compiled by the U. S. Department of Labor.

State Occupational Outlook Handbook, edited by David Bianco.

Statistical Handbook of Working America, 2^nd ed., edited by Arsen Darnay and Helen S. Fisher.

9. Be sure to get your handout approved by the Department Head/Program Director, Dean, PIO, and President at your college, and by Chancy Kapp (kappc@nccommunitycolleges.edu) at the System Office before you use it. It is very important that all information presented to legislators be accurate and documented.

10. Three weeks prior to your visit, prepare a letter inviting all members of the House and Senate to your demonstration. Inform them of the date, time, and nature of the activity. Ideally, this letter should come from your college’s president. A mail merge file of the names and addresses of all senators and representatives is available. Contact Don Wildman for a copy of this mail merge file.

11. A week or two before your visit, contact a senator and a representative from your district and ask for them to arrange to have the students recognized on the floor of the House and the floor of the Senate. (Talking to the legislators’ secretaries is usually sufficient to arrange this, since the legislators themselves are sometimes hard to reach.) Contact information for legislators is available at the N. C. General Assembly website: www.ncleg.net.

The ideal time for the students to be recognized is at the beginning of each session. That way you have a specific time (the start time of the session) to have your students in place in the gallery, and the students won’t have to sit too long and get fidgety.

When the students are recognized, have them all stand up to acknowledge the recognition from the floor. Once the students have been recognized, they can stay and watch the proceedings for a while, if they like, or they can quietly leave the gallery.

(Session starting times are set only the day before a session, so you won’t know the exact hour until after session ends on the day before the day you arrive. Shortly after the end of each session, the starting time for the next day’s session will be posted on the General Assembly web site <www.ncleg.net>. (Note that sessions on Monday always start at 7:00 p.m. Normally Monday sessions are short, so the starting times for Tuesday's sessions will be posted on the General Assembly website by 8:30 or 9:00 p.m. on Monday.) On the day you arrive, you can pick up House and Senate session agenda sheets (with session starting times) from the Information Desk in the front lobby.

(Sessions usually start in the afternoon, but sometimes they start in the morning. Around 2:00 is a common starting time, but it may be 3:00 or 4:00. The Senate and House set their schedules independently. Usually, they start at different times, but sometimes they start at the same time.)

12. If you need to unload material in the parking area under the General Assembly, contact the General Assembly Police: (919) 733 2159. On the day of the demo, drive any vehicle that must be unloaded into the General Assembly parking lot under the Legislative Building. Enter the parking lot on the west side, from Salisbury Street. Park your vehicle in front of the glass entrance to the cafeteria. Immediately go over to the General Assembly Police headquarters directly opposite the cafeteria entrance, and ask permission to park there long enough to unload. (The police headquarters is a white cinder block and glass structure in the parking area itself.) Then you'll have to drive the unloaded vehicle to another parking lot for the day and bring it back to be loaded in the afternoon.

Take your equipment up the elevators to the first floor. You can borrow mail carts to move equipment from the House or Senate Sergeant at Arms offices.

House Sergeant at Arms, Room 1423 Legislative Building, phone (919) 733-5627.

Senate Sergeant at Arms, Room 1123 Legislative Building, phone (919) 733-5946.

The Senate Sergeant at Arms' office is the more convenient of the two. It's located just around the corner from the North Lobby in the 1100 courtyard.

14. Ensure that anyone visiting with you has written directions to the General Assembly and parking.

15. On the day of your demo, you must take a sample informational handout to both the Principal Clerk of the House (Room 2320 Legislative Building) and the Principal Clerk of the Senate (Room 2020 Legislative Building) to get their permission to distribute the handouts. (They’ve had a problem in the past with someone who wanted to pass out pornographic pictures to the legislators to emphasize free speech.) The Clerks’ offices are on the second floor of the legislature, at the far east and west ends of the building.

Important Change from Prior Years: No Souvenirs

If you’ve done demos in the past, you’ll recall that we encouraged you to create small souvenirs to give to all the legislators to help them to remember your demo and the curriculum or program it represented. Because of the new ethics law, President Lancaster has recommended that we not give legislators any souvenirs this year.

So please do not give souvenirs to the legislators this year.

Not giving souvenirs makes the distribution of the informational handout much simpler than in years past. Previously, we had asked you to hand deliver the souvenir and the informational handout together to each of the 170 legislators’ offices, a time-consuming task. Now there’s an easier way.

Take 170 copies of your informational handout to the mail room in the basement of the Legislative Building. The mailroom is near the cafeteria. To get to the mailroom from the first floor of the Legislative Building, take the elevator, located in the center of the building, down to the basement. As you get off the elevator, the mailroom will be to your immediate right.

Because your college is part of the NCCCS, a state agency, the mailroom will distribute your informational handouts without postage. But you must make clear to the person you leave the handouts with that you are indeed part of a state agency. The person will probably not know your college is part of state government, and you must make clear that it is.

One of the following NCCCFA officers will be able to assist you as you put your demonstration together:

Legislative Committee Chair Don Wildman

(919) 662 3547

<dlwildma@waketech.edu>

(919) 209-2221

<mitchellcliff@johnstoncc.edu>

<mitchellcliff44@hotmail.com>

The General Assembly has an excellent cafeteria in the basement of the Legislative Building. The food is very good, and it’s inexpensive. Also, many of the legislators eat lunch there, so the lunch hour is another opportunity for legislators to see you and your students.

Good luck with your demonstration, and please don't hesitate to call Don Wildman or Cliff Mitchell if you have any questions.

Directions to the Legislature, the NCCC System Office, and Nearby Parking

Following are directions to the NCCC System Office, prepared by the System Office staff. The North Carolina Legislative Building is one block east of the System Office on Jones Street. The public parking lot near the corner of McDowell Street and Lane Street mentioned below is the lot you should use to walk to the Legislative Building and the Legislative Office Building behind it.

To get a map of downtown Raleigh, go to <www.mapquest.com>, and click on Maps. Then click on Map a New Location.

Type in:

Salisbury St & Morgan St, Raleigh, NC 27601.

Another useful aid, the Map of the Downtown State Government Complex, mentioned and linked to in the System Office directions below, is also good to have because it has the state government buildings noted on it.

North Carolina Community College System
The Caswell Building
200 West Jones Street
Raleigh, North Carolina
919-733-7051

The Caswell Building is a six-story red brick building on the northwest corner of West Jones Street and North McDowell Street in the state government complex in downtown Raleigh.  It is one full block west of the Legislative Building, adjacent to the Administration Building.

Please park in the Visitors' Area of the State Government Parking Lot on McDowell Street or in metered spaces on the street.  Do NOT park in the parking lots directly across Jones Street from the Caswell Building.  That is paid parking for employees, and there are no visitors' spaces.  The parking deck at McDowell and Lane is open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.  There is a small hourly charge.  

The Department of Environmental and Economic Resources maintains an excellent map of the state government area of downtown Raleigh.  Buildings are listed alphabetically.

Directions from the east, driving Interstate 40:
Take I-40 West to the Person Street exit.
Follow Person Street north into downtown.
Turn left onto Edenton Street and drive past the historic Capitol.
Turn right onto McDowell Street.
The Caswell Building is on the left at the corner of McDowell Street and West Jones Street.  To reach the visitors' parking deck, continue north on McDowell Street through the intersection with Lane Street; then turn right into the deck. 

Directions from the east, driving US 64:
US 64 becomes Edenton Street heading into downtown.  
Past the historic Capitol, turn right onto McDowell Street.
The Caswell Building is on the left at the corner of McDowell Street and West Jones Street.  To reach the visitors' parking deck, continue north on McDowell Street through the intersection with Lane Street; then turn right into the deck.

 

Directions from RDU and points west, driving Interstate 40: 
Take I-40 East through the Research Triangle Park.  
Take Exit 289 onto Wade Avenue.  Stay on Wade Avenue six miles.
Take the Civic Center/70 East/50 South exit to Capital Boulevard.
Get in the far left lane on Capital Boulevard as you head to downtown.
Turn left at the second light onto West Jones Street.
The Caswell Building is the third building on the left, at the corner of West Jones and McDowell. Park in metered spaces on the street or in the State Visitors lot one block north, at the corner of Lane and McDowell.  To reach the lot, turn left onto McDowell Street from Jones, get in the far right lane, cross Lane Street, and turn right into the deck.

Directions from the west, driving US 70/Crabtree Valley Mall/Glenwood Avenue:
US 70 becomes Glenwood Avenue coming into Raleigh.
Follow Glenwood into downtown Raleigh.
Turn left onto West Jones Street; there's a flashing light at the intersection.  
The Caswell Building is several blocks down on the left, at the corner of Jones and McDowell. 
Park in metered spaces on the street or in the State Visitors lot one block north, at the corner of Lane and McDowell.  To reach the lot, turn left onto McDowell Street from Jones, get in the far right lane, cross Lane Street and turn right into the deck.

Directions from the south, driving US 1:
Take US 1 north past Cary to Raleigh.
Exit onto Wade Avenue going into town. 
Stay on Wade Avenue six miles.
Take the Civic Center/70 East/50 South exit to Capital Boulevard.
Get in the far left lane on Capital Boulevard as you head to downtown.
Turn left at the light onto West Jones Street.  The Caswell Building is the third building on the left, at the corner of West Jones and McDowell.
Park in metered spaces on the street or in the State Visitors lot one block north, at the corner of Lane and McDowell.  To reach the lot, turn left onto McDowell Street from Jones, get in the far right lane, cross Lane Street and turn right into the deck.

Parking near the Legislature and the System Office

There are two public parking decks and one parking lot within walking distance of the legislature and the NCCC System Office.

Deck between McDowell and Salisbury Streets

From McDowell Street, the normal way into the visitors parking area (once inside the deck) is to turn left to go past the ticket spitter. Sometimes, the ticket spitter won’t give you a ticket because it thinks the lot is full. Some other times, the attendant places a sign at that point saying the lot is full. Because people are constantly exiting and entering the deck, the lot is almost never, in actuality, full.

If you see the “lot full” sign, drive straight past it (instead of turning left), moving deeper into the building. Take the next left up a ramp to the second floor. At the top of the ramp, make a U-turn right onto the parallel down ramp back to the first floor. At the bottom of this down ramp you will be on the Salisbury-Street side of the parking deck. Turn left past the parking-attendant booth, and enter the visitors parking area, where you should find some open parking spaces.

Lot on the Corner of Jones and Wilmington

On the corner of Jones Street and Wilmington Street is a parking lot diagonally across from the southeast corner of the Legislative Building. Enter the lot from Jones Street, just past the Wilmington Street intersection.

Deck on the Corner of South McDowell and Morgan

The second parking deck is about three blocks from the System Office and four blocks from the legislature. It is in the 100 block of South McDowell Street. Drive north on South McDowell Street till you pass the intersection of Hargett Street. Turn right into the public parking lot before you get to the next intersection, Morgan Street. The parking lot is on the corner of South McDowell and Morgan Streets. To get to the System Office and the legislature from this parking lot, walk north on McDowell Street three blocks to Jones Street. The System Office is the Caswell Building, on the northwest corner of the intersection. To get to the Legislative Building, turn right (east), and walk one block.

If for some reason all the parking lots are full, you can find on-street parking by driving east on Jones Street three or four blocks into a residential area. If you go far enough east, there won't be any parking meters to worry about, and you can park all day for free.

Curriculum Demonstrations at the Legislature in 2001

During this year's legislative session, the NCCCFA Community College Awareness Campaign brought students, faculty, and administrators to the General Assembly to show lawmakers the wide range of curriculums being taught on our campuses. The curriculum demonstrations clearly proved that North Carolina's community colleges are meeting the needs of students and industry in a surprising variety of ways.

Cosmetology students and instructors from Bladen Community College led our effort with a display March 28 that demonstrated their skills and their earning power to legislators. Partnering with a Bladen County peanut processor, the students gave away bags of North Carolina peanuts, which proved very popular with the members of the legislature. NCCCS President Martin Lancaster stopped by to welcome the students to Raleigh.

Led by President Larry Norris, a delegation of Fayetteville Technical Community College Computer Information Systems students, faculty and staff used a large-display computer to illustrate community college needs to legislators in a sophisticated display complete with a floral centerpiece, which, at the end of the day, was given to Lieutenant Governor Beverly Perdue. The Fayetteville Observer ran a story on the demonstration the following day.

Johnston Community College parked an 18-wheeler across the street from the legislature to highlight its Truck Driver Training curriculum. Senator Allen Wellons of Johnston County climbed into the cab to get a driver’s view of the big rig. WRAL-TV covered the demonstration on the evening news. The big blue truck with "Johnston Community College" painted on its side showed up really well on the small screen.

Students, faculty and staff from Wake Technical Community College demonstrated two curriculums, Automation and Robotics Technology and Computer Engineering Technology, May 16. Robot arms reached and grasped from one table, while instructor Butch Grove explained computer repair at another. NCCCFA President Jim Davies assisted at the cookie and punch table during the day.

President Katherine Johnson brought the Nash Community College Engineering Technology and Electric Lineman Repair Technology curriculums to the legislature at the end of May. The North Carolina Electric Cooperative parked a line-repair bucket truck on the mall behind the legislature and gave rides to passersby. President Lancaster rode the bucket up to a bird’s-eye view of the legislature.

Catawba Valley Community College faculty and students brought an original idea along with their Furniture Production Technology curriculum. All day long they upholstered a chair in the North Lobby of the legislature, while at the same time, they collected people's names for chances to win the chair. At the end of the day, one of the lawmakers’ legislative assistants won the chair in a drawing supervised by Catawba Valley's president, Dr. Cuyler Dunbar.

Piedmont Community College featured its Film and Video Production Technology program at the legislature in June. Faculty and staff demonstrated video production equipment and distributed copies of the award-winning video "Kick the Door In," which had been produced by Piedmont students. A streaming video version of the tape can be viewed on the Internet at <www.corbetts.com>.

As summer temperatures rose, Martin Community College President Ann Britt brought a treat for legislators that everyone agreed was really cool. With the help of a refrigeration company that works closely with the college, instructors and students in Martin's Commercial Refrigeration Technology program set up a large glass-topped commercial freezer and transformed the North Lobby into an ice cream parlor. They served hundreds of ice cream cones to legislators eager to sample the benefits of modern refrigeration. At the same time, students in Martin's Electrical/Electronics Technology program demonstrated the impressive set of circuits in their programmable logic controller, an electric switching device used in industry.

In July, Catawba Valley Community College President Cuyler Dunbar returned to cap off the season's demonstrations with his college's Bobby Isaac Motorsports Technology program. Students and faculty parked a NASCAR racecar across the street from the legislature and showed off their pit skills with superfast tire changes that got a lot of attention. WRAL-TV covered the demonstration, and articles about it appeared in the Hickory Daily Record and the Winston-Salem Journal.

Curriculum Demonstrations at the Legislature

2002 Session

June 11, Martin CC.

Equine program. They had students riding horses on Halifax Mall, and they had a horse for legislators to ride. They also served ice cream in the 3^rd floor lobby of the Legislative Office Building.

June 25, Carteret CC.

Photography, Paralegal, and Aquaculture programs in the North Lobby of the Legislative Building.

June 26, Fayetteville Technical CC.

Six Early Education and Teacher Education programs in the North Lobby of the Legislative Building.

July 9, Bladen CC.

Industrial Technology and Electrical/Electronic programs in the North Lobby of the Legislative Building.

Curriculum Demonstrations during the 2003 Session

Nash CC, Rocky Mount, NC Physical Therapy May

Pamlico CC, Grantsboro, NC Electroneurodiagnostics May

(Measuring brain waves)

Mayland CC, Spruce Pine, NC Horticulture May 14

Fayetteville Tech CC, Fayetteville NC Dental Assistant May 20

Fayetteville Tech CC, Assoc. Degree Nursing and Practical Nursing May 21

Bladen CC, Dublin, NC, and Brunswick CC, Supply, NC, together,

Criminal Justice and the Information Highway May 28

(Bladen delivers CJ classes to Brunswick via the Info Hwy.)

Guilford Tech CC, Jamestown, NC

Dental Assisting, Surgical Technology, Culinary Technology,
Cosmetology, Industrial Electronics June 3

Piedmont CC, Roxboro, NC

Film and Video, and Criminal Justice June 11

Curriculum Demonstrations at the Legislature 2005

Bladen CC

Nursing

April 20

Carteret CC

Respiratory Therapy, Marine Propulsion and Boat Building

Possibly partnership with ECU

May 18, 9:00- 4:00, North Lobby

Catawba Valley CC

Partnership of Catawba Valley CC, Western Piedmont CC, and the Appalachian Learning Alliance to educate teachers who will likely remain in their home areas, where they are most needed.

May 11. No times listed. 1100 Court

Fayetteville Tech CC

Learning Communities

May 4, 10:00 to 2:00, 1100 Court

Fayetteville Tech CC, Coastal CC, Craven CC, Wayne CC

CC Services to the Military

June 15, 11:00 to 3:00, North Lobby and 1100 Court

Johnston CC

Partnership East Teacher Training with Johnston CC, Wayne CC, and ECU

April 19

Johnston CC

Early Childhood

June 29

Mayland CC

Horticulture: Native ornamental flora and advanced propagation techniques for native and hybrid plant propagation. Also, award-winning Energy Xchange and Project Branch Out, a combined project that uses methane captured from two local closed landfills to support two greenhouses.

June 14, 9:00 to 4:00, North Lobby

Piedmont CC

Film & Video Production Technology

June 7. No times listed. North Lobby

Sampson CC

Biotech. High-tech swine semen analyzer

May 3. No times listed. North Lobby

Stanly CC

Partnership with UNC-Charlotte, teacher training.

May 4. No times listed. North Lobby

Surry CC

Early Childhood, Viticulture, Enology

June 29. No times listed. North Lobby

Wake Tech CC

Sammie Thornton

Automotive, Electrical, Machining
April 27, 8:30 to 3:00, North Lobby

Wake Tech CC

Emergency Medical Services
May 17, 8:00 to 3:00, North Lobby

Curriculum Demonstations at the Legislature 2006

Central Piedmont CC, May 24

We have an 8'x10' modular house, which was used for "If I Had a Hammer," a collaboration with Charlotte Mecklenburg High Schools. We plan to set it up using our construction program, wire it using our electrical program, cool it using our HVAC program, put a hand forged weather vane on top using our welding program, and our graphic arts/flexo program is going to do our handouts. Each program will also have a small hands-on demo.

Roanoke-Chowan CC, May 24

Continuing Education. Fire and Rescue: Rapid Deployment

Bladen CC, June 6

NC Community Colleges teaching literacy for lifelong learning.

Our Developmental, ABE, GED, and other literacy groups are pulling together

to highlight community college efforts to improve literacy.

Gaston CC and Catawba Valley CC, June 21

Textile Day

Wake Technical CC, June 21

(Parked the Biotech Bus near the Legislature.)

The BioNetwork Capstone Learning Center (BCLC)--which includes Central

Carolina CC, Durham Technical CC, Johnston CC, Piedmont CC,

Vance-Granville CC, Sandhills CC, and Wake Tech--focuses on offering to

incumbent workers, new hires, and community college students hands-on

short courses in biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical operations.

Forsyth Tech CC, June 28

Computer Security