Sandhills - The Community's College
For more than four decades, Sandhills Community College has transformed lives and opened doors for thousands of people in Moore and Hoke counties. Sandhills Community College has educated nurses, prepared chefs and landscapers, and trained x-ray technicians, EMS personnel and police officers.

Sandhills has provided strong foundations to students transferring to universities, and it has helped the unemployed move into new careers. Sandhills has built beautiful gardens, provided concerts and lectures, offered classes to lifelong learners, taught the illiterate to read, and participated actively in the area's economic development.

In short, Sandhills Community College has improved the lives of virtually every person in our area; and, in much of its work, it has served the underserved and provided opportunity and hope to those who otherwise might have none.



The college's success in bringing meaningful change to the lives of many can be attributed to a public-private partnership between the State of North Carolina and generous private citizen benefactors. This partnership starts with the basic level of support the State of North Carolina provides to all its community colleges.

At Sandhills, that basic level is augmented significantly by the extraordinary generosity of private benefactors who know and love the college. Remarkably, since its charter in 1969, donors have provided over $25,000,000 to the Sandhills Community College Foundation, thereby making possible Sandhills' strong faculty, modern facilities and equipment, and the state's best program for providing opportunity to deserving students.


Teresa Reynolds shows how to manipulate photos in Microsoft Word while Dr. Nancy Ellis, member of the Foundation board of directors, listens attentively.
 
There are two sure signs of fall at SCC - the leaves start changing and a day is set aside by friends of the college to sample the quality and diversity of the Sandhills Educational Experience.

The SCC Foundation held its annual Return to the Classroom event during fall break in October. Dozens of the college’s extended family members came to campus to attend classes taught by Dr. John Dempsey, Larry Allen, Teresa Reynolds and Chef Curt Shelvey. The topics included The Federalist Papers, The Southern Literary Renaissance in the 20th Century, A Taste of Italy, and Using Digital Photos in MS Word.