July 16, 2009
For Immediate Release

RCCC Earns Workplace Safety Award

                 SALISBURY, N.C. — Rowan-Cabarrus Community College has earned a workplace safety award from the North Carolina Department of Labor. The award recognizes RCCC for reaching 1 million hours without a lost workday due to injury or illness.

                  From June 2007 through December 2008, RCCC logged more than 1.6 million employee hours without any full-time employ missing a day of work because of a work-related injury or illness.

                  In recognition of its workplace safety milestone, RCCC received a plaque from the N.C. Department of Labor and has been invited to send a representative to an awards banquet in spring 2010.

                  RCCC employs approximately 345 full-time faculty and staff members at its Cabarrus and Rowan County campus locations.

               RCCC is a comprehensive, community-based institution of higher learning, serving the citizens of Rowan and Cabarrus counties in North Carolina. RCCC is one of 58 colleges in the state-supported North Carolina Community College System.

                RCCC offers fully-accredited associate-degree programs in more than 40 areas of study, including arts and sciences, business, information technology, health and public services, and engineering technologies. RCCC also offers accredited diploma and certificate programs focused on career training, continuing education and basic skills education. RCCC provides a strong foundation and transferable credits for students moving on to four-year colleges and universities and helps adults get the additional training they need to start new careers.

               RCCC annually provides more than 2,000 course offerings, serving an overall enrollment of approximately 20,000 students. In addition, RCCC provides the education and job-training programs needed to meet many of the workforce demands of the North Carolina Research Campus being developed in Kannapolis. For complete details, see the RCCC website at www.rowancabarrus.edu.