Alamance Community College issued the following announcement on July 22.
Alamance Community College has received a $93,908 grant to purchase equipment to support its new satellite training facility at the Adams School of Dentistry on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.
Last month, ACC announced it planned to expand its Dental Assisting program to the UNC campus to offer students living in Durham and Orange counties an opportunity to train and earn a diploma starting in January 2023. No dental assisting program currently exists in those counties.
ACC at UNC, as the new cohort is known, is expected to increase the number of current Dental Assisting II graduates available to the region’s three counties of Alamance, Durham and Orange by almost 60 percent. A graduate certified in Dental Assisting II can earn a competitive salary because they can perform all legal expanded functions prescribed by a NC licensed dentist. ACC expects to provide an additional 24 Dental Assisting II graduates each year with the ACC at UNC program.
ACC received the grant funds through The NC Community College System’s Expanding Community College Economic Impact Grant program for the 2022-2023 fiscal year. North Carolina community colleges were eligible to apply for grant funds to expand and target efforts in a specific program that is proven to have high economic impacts in a region.
ACC established the ACC at UNC cohort because its Dental Assisting II program is at full capacity and the UNC facilities were available and offered to the college.
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