Dr. Scott Ralls

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  Published on: 9/15/2008    Last Visited: 9/15/2008  

  In addition to the daylong show, the expo luncheon and symposium will be held at noon adjacent to the Brown Auditorium and will feature R. Scott Ralls, Ph.D., president of the N.C. Community College System.

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  Published on: 8/22/2008    Last Visited: 8/22/2008  

  Scott Ralls, the system's president, has said 112 illegal immigrants were enrolled in degree classes during the 2006-2007 academic year, the most recent count available.

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  Published on: 9/1/2007    Last Visited: 3/20/2008  

  The Craven Community College Foundation will be honoring Dr. R. Scott Ralls who has served as President of the College since 2002.The celebration will be an opportunity for Dr. Ralls' friends, colleagues and associates to honor his tremendous impact on this community through the financial support of the Scott and Lisa Ralls Leadership Endowment fund.

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  Published on: 9/19/2009    Last Visited: 9/23/2009  

  System President Scott Ralls said because illegal immigrants were required to pay out-of-state tuition, the number of undocumented students admitted to community college programs has been very small - less than one-half of 1 percent of enrollment in degree programs.

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  Published on: 8/27/2008    Last Visited: 8/27/2008  

  The summer before Scott Ralls' senior year of college, he worked a monotonous assembly line job at a manufacturing plant in Mt. Airy.About a year later, Ralls visited Yokohama, Japan, and toured an automobile plant where he saw people moving around, letting machines do the work.It was then he realized that high-technology jobs were the future of manufacturing.
  
  Ralls, now the president of the state community college system, said the new Bosch and Siemens Advanced Manufacturing Center at Craven Community College symbolizes engaging jobs in which people use machines to create products and add wealth to the community.
  
  The manufacturing center was dedicated Wednesday morning.The 30,000-square-foot building includes classrooms and labs for training people for computer-integrated manufacturing, automation, metal-forming, plastics and design jobs.
  
  "There's no place where you can hide anymore and park your brain like I did at that manufacturing plant," Ralls said.
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  Ralls said the manufacturing center is unique, because it was conceived and funded in 2001 as North Carolina was losing 15 percent of its manufacturing jobs.

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  Published on: 11/24/2007    Last Visited: 12/23/2007  

  (AP) - The State Board of Community Colleges has elected Craven Community College President Scott Ralls as the new system president.
  
  Ralls was selected by an unanimous vote.He will be paid $275,000 annually and will start his new job on April 1.
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  The other candidates are Craven Community College President Scott Ralls and City College of San Francisco Chancellor Philip Day.

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  Published on: 12/6/2007    Last Visited: 12/6/2007  

  NC community college board names Ralls as new president
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  RALEIGH, N.C. - The State Board of Community Colleges elected Scott Ralls as the new system president on Thursday in a vote that drew an unusual amount of attention following the system's decision to admit illegal immigrants at all of its campuses.
  
  Ralls, the president of Craven Community College, was selected by an unanimous vote.He will be paid $275,000 annually and will start his new job on April 1.He takes the place of Martin Lancaster, a former congressman who announced last winter he would retire in May.
  
  The board met in closed session to speak individually with Ralls and two other finalists: Kennon Briggs, the system's vice president for business and finance, and City College of San Francisco Chancellor Philip Day.
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  Ralls will take over a 58-campus system that serves more than 800,000 students and continues to face strong pressure to retrain workers laid off from traditional manufacturing fields such as textiles, furniture and tobacco.
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  Before the board voted to hire Ralls, system spokeswoman Chancy Kapp said she didn't believe the flap over the policy would affect the deliberations on Lancaster's successor.The finalists were chosen in mid-November.
  
  "We've all gotten a lot of phone calls" about the change, she said, but the board appears "secure with the choices of the finalists."

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  Published on: 5/17/2008    Last Visited: 5/17/2008  

  RALEIGH - Community College System President Scott Ralls said Friday that he will happily admit illegal immigrants if he gets new legal advice."I believe that broadly available education has more social benefit than social cost," Ralls said after a meeting of the State Board of Community Colleges.
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  That letter said federal law appears to prohibit illegal immigrants from getting post-secondary education at state colleges and universities and recommended that the community colleges seek more information from the federal Department of Homeland Security, which enforces the law.Several board members, along with Ralls, said they are waiting for the Attorney General's Office to provide more clarity on what federal law allows.Once they get that clarity, they said, they will consider whether to reverse their position on educating students regardless of legal status.In the meantime, they said, they must follow the legal advice they have.They said they could not rely on a statement from the Department of Homeland Security, made to The News & Observer last week, which said North Carolina has authority to determine who is admitted to its colleges.Ralls said he met with the Attorney General's Office on Monday to ask whether the statement had changed their advice.

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  Published on: 10/14/2009    Last Visited: 10/25/2009  

  The 58 community colleges are funded for only 216,500 full-time students but have welcomed at least 236,500 since the beginning of this semester, NC Community College System President Scott Ralls told the State Board of Community Colleges today in Fayetteville. This growth represents a 14 percent increase in curriculum programs, those resulting in a degree, certificate or diploma, with a total of 9 percent growth across all programs. Fifty-seven of the 58 colleges experienced growth, with some colleges experiencing increases over 20 percent. Mayland Community College had flat enrollment growth. "Our colleges are being squeezed between unprecedented enrollment numbers and continued budget reductions and reversions," said Dr. Ralls.
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  "We are working to offer as many flexible options for our students as possible such as short-term training and more online courses," said Dr. Ralls.

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  Published on: 8/11/2009    Last Visited: 8/11/2009  

  R. Scott Ralls UNC-TV ONLINE: About Us: Board of Trustees
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  Dr. Scott Ralls R. Scott Ralls, Ph. D., became president of the North Carolina Community College System on May 1, 2008.
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  President Ralls earned his Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and his Master of Arts in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Maryland. He did his undergraduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating with highest distinction with a B.S. in Industrial Relations and Psychology.
  
  President Ralls came to the presidency after five successful years as president at Craven Community College in New Bern. Before moving to Craven, was the vice president for Economic and Workforce Development at the NC Community College System, director of Economic Development at the System Office, and a director at the North Carolina Department of Commerce.
  
  President Ralls is the son of a Methodist minister who served several churches in North Carolina, primarily in the western part of the state. He points to that early experience as a source of his deep appreciation for his native state and his commitment to helping create a prosperous future for North Carolinians through educational access and opportunity.

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