Virtual Dallas Herring Lecture 2020

The NC State College of Education’s Belk Center for Community College Leadership & Research honors the legacy of Dallas Herring, a pillar of the North Carolina Community College system by hosting the annual Dallas Herring Lecture. This year, we invite you to join us virtually for the 2020 Dallas Herring Lecture on Tuesday, November 10th at 1pm given by Dr. Pam Eddinger.

Like lightning across the higher education landscape, the COVID pandemic illuminates the fragile conditions of community colleges and their students across the nation. Urban or rural, large or small, each institution is suddenly faced with the consequences from years of systematic defunding of public higher education. In communities of poverty and communities of color, where community colleges represent the best hope for social and economic mobility, the pandemic is a simultaneous moment of reckoning and hope. Dr. Eddinger’s lecture, titled Insights from the Pandemic: The Reckoning and the Hope at Our Nation’s Community Colleges, explores the possibilities.