Michael Chafin earns honors as outstanding Public Safety student ahead of graduation Michael Chafin, who will graduate from Gaston College with an Associate in Applied Science degree on May 13, is right where he wants to be. At the recent Student Awards Celebration ceremony he was named the Outstanding Public Safety Student for his excellence […]
College is a major financial and time commitment that can be a challenge for any student to take on. The Gaston College Foundation hopes to ease those burdens for some students with the help of scholarships. Applications for the 2022-2023 academic year are now being accepted through the Gaston College scholarship portal. All prospective and […]
Always taking care of others, that’s how Quaowu Ohin says his friends and family would describe him. Quaowu will soon make that his full-time job when he graduates Gaston College with his associate degree in nursing in May and starts his job as an Intensive Care Unit nurse with CaroMont Health. With many obstacles along […]
In May, Hillary Ford will walk across a stage at CaroMont Health Park surrounded by her Gaston College peers and receive an Associate of Arts degree. If you asked Hillary several years ago what her plans were for the future, she says they certainly would not have included graduating from college. A mother, domestic violence […]
In kindergarten, children are asked what they want to be when they grow up and typically kids say they dream of becoming a doctor, astronaut, or President of the United States. While Seth Eaves’ classmates had hopes of saving lives or making history, Seth had his eyes set on a different path. Seth dreamed that […]
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, people have taken the time to think about what makes them feel fulfilled, and many have realized their current path was not the right one for them. This has led people to quit their jobs and seek a new one or even change career fields. Others have decided […]
Gaston College Work-Based Learning & Placement will be holding a career fair on Wednesday Mar. 23 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the Meyers Center Multipurpose Auditorium on the Dallas Campus. The event is open to all past and present Gaston College students and the community. Nearly 70 businesses are expected to participate hiring […]
Gaston College student Trenton Laws was selected out of hundreds of community college students across the country to attend the NCAS virtual experience from Feb. 2-8, 2022, and won the mission challenge with his team. This was a dream come true for Trenton, who says he hopes to work for NASA one day. Laws earned his […]
Gaston College and Catawba Valley Community College became the first two schools in Western N.C. to become a part of North Carolina State University’s Community College Collaboration Agreement (C3) at a signing event on Tuesday, January 25, 2022. The C3 agreement will guarantee students from Gaston College admission to NC State if they meet […]
College leads efforts to raise awareness of health equity gaps. The United States ranks last on measures of health equity compared to other industrialized countries, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. To raise awareness of this issue and to begin to understand equity gaps and develop a shared common language concerning health equity, Gaston […]
