WINSTON-SALEM (November 6, 2025) – The Piedmont Triad is surging into a new era of green, fuel-efficient cars and planes. And Forsyth Tech helps supply workers to fill the new jobs. “The beauty of community colleges, especially in my opinion in North Carolina, is that we are designed to be very local. We are all… READ MORE
A Lift to prepare for college
WINSTON-SALEM (November 6, 2025) – Especially when they come from low-income families or their parents have never been to college, some students need a little extra attention and encouragement to get ready for college. “Our College Lift program is really special and it’s really unique,” Dr. Janet Spriggs, President of Forsyth Technical Community College, says… READ MORE
Forsyth Tech: ‘You can find a path’
WINSTON-SALEM (October 29, 2025) – They’re called community colleges for a reason – because they meet the needs of the communities they serve in oh-so-many ways. “Sometimes people do not understand the magnitude of all of the programs and all of the things we do at Forsyth Tech,” Dr. Janet Spriggs, President of Forsyth Technical… READ MORE
Community-college salaries: ‘A workforce-development, social-mobility issue’
WINSTON-SALEM (October 29, 2025) – Forsyth Tech President Dr. Janet Spriggs eases into it. She first thanks the NC General Assembly in the accompanying video for providing enrollment growth funds for community colleges – Forsyth Tech’s enrollment was up 13% this fall alone. Yet North Carolina is a state that loves its community colleges –… READ MORE
South Piedmont gets a winner
POLKTON (May 19, 2025) – Dr. Stacy Waters-Bailey, a senior administrator at Forsyth Tech, has been named the next president of South Piedmont Community College, which serves Union and Anson counties. Don’t read that as the announcement of just another community college president. You might recall that we interviewed Waters-Bailey three years ago at Forsyth… READ MORE
Forsyth Tech wins the ‘Heisman’ of community colleges
WINSTON-SALEM (February 26, 2025) – A Forsyth Technical Community College program that starts working with students in middle school to prepare them for college has won what’s known as the Heisman Trophy for community colleges. The College Lift program at Forsyth Tech was named the winner of the Bellwether Award for Instructional Programs and Services… READ MORE
Forsyth Tech: ‘It’s really at a crisis level.’
WINSTON-SALEM (March 16, 2023) – Forsyth Technical Community College President Janet Spriggs has 36 vacancies among her faculty to fill – far more than usual this time of year. And six of those positions have been vacant more than a year. Forsyth Tech has lost 58 of its 320 full-time faculty members to industry and… READ MORE
Forsyth Tech: What is it that Stokes County needs?
WALNUT COVE (March 17, 2022) – When Forsyth Technical Community College set out to start a campus in Stokes County, college officials didn’t assume – they asked. “We try to meet the individual needs of the counties that we serve,” Forsyth Tech President Janet Spriggs says in the accompanying video, explaining that the college serves… READ MORE
‘Customized training just for them’
WINSTON-SALEM (March 17, 2022) – One of the reasons they’re called community colleges is they provide precisely the training that local employers – and employees – need. “At Forsyth Technical Community College, that means we work with employers like Reynolds American,” President Janet Spriggs says in the accompanying video. “We provide for them education –… READ MORE
‘Free’ community college? ‘That’s crazy’
WALNUT COVE (March 9, 2022) – ‘Free’ is a loaded term – somebody has to pay. But education leaders say free community-college tuition could help lift more North Carolina students out of poverty. “Community college tuition in North Carolina is an extremely good deal,” Forsyth Technical Community College President Janet Spriggs says in the accompanying… READ MORE