Scott Ralls, the president of Wake Tech Community College, runs North Carolina’s largest community college in the state’s most populous county. Wake Tech’s facilities have spread throughout the county, and some 70,000 folks take classes full and part-time. Wake Tech is a key reason the county has been able to attract so many new companies and grow as fast as it has.
I wanted to talk with Ralls because nearly 70% of voters in November approved another $353.2 million in Wake Tech bonds. This came four years after the 2018 referendum, which approved $349 million in borrowing for college facility expansion.
“We’re focused on those roles that keep Wake County running,” he says. Network administrators. Nurses. HVAC folks. Automotive technicians. EMTs. Police officers. Biopharma workers.
Over the past two decades, Wake County voters have approved Wake Tech…
