Students Celebrate Community College Day at the General Assembly

RCC SGA students at the General Assembly.

Students from community colleges across North Carolina visited the General Assembly today to voice their support for raising instructor pay, funding community colleges for year-round instruction and maintaining affordable tuition rates.

"The affordability, the quality and the accessibility offered to me during my community college experience paved the way for my success," says La'Quon Rogers, a student at Pitt Community College in Greenville and president of the North Carolina Community College Comprehensive Student Government Association (N4CSGA). "Instructors go above and beyond to ensure that their students have everything they need to enter the workforce or transfer to a university."

Three students from Randolph Community College attended Community College Day. During the visit, students had the opportunity to meet with their district's legislators, attend a meeting of the N.C. House's Education – Community Colleges Committee and be formally recognized by both chambers. The RCC students participating were Kylar Martin, SGA president; Selena Cecilio, an SGA delegate; and Joe VanBencoten, SGA vice president. All three are Associate in Science students from Asheboro.

N4CSGA representatives also presented a petition with more than 1,000 student signatures to the leadership of the General Assembly, symbolizing the broad student support for the budget priorities related to tuition rates and instructor pay.

The N4CSGA is a student-led organization that represents all student government organizations within the North Carolina Community College System.