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Posted: March 14, 2007

'UNC Rocky Mount' Bill Is Waiting in the Wings

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Raleigh, N.C. — The plan to turn North Carolina Wesleyan College into UNC-Rocky Mount is moving forward. There is a bill in the Legislature to start the process if that’s what the university system’s Board of Governors wants to do.

UNC President Erskine Bowles is supposed to get a study on the issue in a few weeks.

Sen A.B. Swindell, D-Nash, and Sen. Clark Jenkins, D-Edgecombe, co-sponsored the three-sentence legislation so it is ready to go if the decision is to move the private school into the state college system.

This week is their last chance to file such legislation.

If the board decides it wants marching orders for the assimilation, the bill tells them to start working on it Dec. 1 and to report by March 1, 2008, how it’s going.

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I live in Rocky Mount and a state college is not what it needs. It needs business like the textiles and old tobacco companies. It's sad but true, but most of the residents are not college grads- and are good blue collar workers. Only problem is there is not to many blue collar factory jobs left here. So they turn to other things (crime/drugs) to make a living. Not to mention a mayor that has been in office for 30 years and has done absolutely nothing to draw in business, while citys like Roanoke Rapids is growing like crazy...?
godofwar1
March 20, 2007 8:04 a.m.
Rocky Mount surely needs something. Not sure if a college is what it is....
Click to view my profile BlindJustice
March 18, 2007 11:09 a.m.
Wesleyan has been floundering financially for years with high tuition rates. This will be a great opportunity for local students to attend a state supported school closer to home with affordable tuition Not only that but it will also give a lift to the local ecomnomy by draw new businesses into the area.

Former NCWC student and NCSU graduate.

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blueridgelab
March 16, 2007 9:51 a.m.
I hope all the help is young enough not to have to be replaced someday
kota2947
March 15, 2007 10:47 p.m.
kota, the college is already there, this is simply a name change consideration. lol
Click to view my profile Nobody but Carolina
March 15, 2007 4:08 p.m.
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