
Final Day to Register for Summer Classes at RCC WENTWORTH – The last day to registration for summer classes at Rockingham Community College is May 24 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. WebAdvisor will close May 24 at 7 p.m. Tuition and fees are also due May 24 at 7 p.m. Classes start Tuesday, May [...]
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WENTWORTH – The 13 graduating associate degree nursing students at Rockingham Community College held their capping and pinning ceremony May 10 in the RCC auditorium. It is a special and solemn ceremony for those entering the nursing field. Each year during the ceremony, individuals are chosen to receive special awards. This year, Terry Nelson was [...]

GED students graduate during ceremony WENTWORTH – Over 115 graduates walked across the stage to receive their diplomas during the GED graduation held May 11 at Rockingham Community College. Graduation speakers included the three individuals chosen to receive scholarships in order to continue their education at RCC: Candy Creasy, Timothy Gunter, and John [...]

Largest class graduates from RCC WENTWORTH – Dr. Michael S. Helmick, president of Rockingham Community College, conferred degrees, diplomas and certificates to over 270 individuals during the May 11 graduation exercises held at 10 a.m. in the Robert C. Keys gymnasium. Graduates are listed below by city of residence; degree, diploma or certificate earned; [...]

(Wentworth, NC) – The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) awarded Rockingham Community College’s Director of Athletics and Student Life, Dean Myrick, with its prestigious 2012 George Killian Award of Excellence. Killian founded the NJCAA in 1938. “I was shocked,” said Myrick, who learned of the honor at the NJCAA’s national meeting in Colorado Springs. [...]

(Wentworth, NC) – Beginning May 14, Rockingham Community College is offering an industrial welding course through its continuing education division. In this intensive course, students will learn thermal cutting, rigging, testing procedures, inspection methods, gas metal arc, pipe shielded arc, gas tungsten arc and more. The course ends Aug. 28. At that time, students will [...]
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WENTWORTH – When Rockingham Community College begins its women’s basketball program for the 2012-13 season under coach Stewart McClintock, four local women will be on the team: Amber Dalton (Morehead High School graduate), Cassadee Dosher (Rockingham County High School), Adrienne Graves (Bartlett Yancey High School) and Pelaura Hairston (Morehead High School). The four were the [...]

WENTWORTH – On April 26, graduating respiratory therapy at Rockingham Community College were honored with a pinning ceremony attended by their friends and family as well as employees and trustees of the college.

WENTWORTH – In an April 23, 2012, ceremony, 32 individuals were inducted into Alpha Kappa Pi, Rockingham Community College’s chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, an international honor society and the largest honor society in American higher education. To be eligible for membership, a student must complete a minimum of twelve hours of associate degree course [...]
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(Wentworth, NC) – For the annual essay contest, “What Being a Student at RCC Means to Me,” which is sponsored by the Rockingham Community College Foundation, Inc., first place winner, Barbara Kernodle wrote, “When I first walked onto…campus as a student… (I felt) I had just entered a place of enormous opportunity.” A 34-year-old mother [...]