NC community colleges weigh differing costs by campus

WENTWORTH, NC (AP) – North Carolina community college leaders could decide whether to let schools charge more as they search for money to upgrade equipment to train workers for jobs in manufacturing and health care.

Campus presidents of the 58-school system will decide later this month whether to push for allowing community colleges to add a surcharge of up to $256 a year onto full-time tuition of $2,432 per academic year.

Randolph Community College president Robert Shackleford says advanced manufacturing and health care workers are in demand. The head of the state’s community college presidents association says both fields require a lot of training equipment, which means lots of money.

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