Rowan Cabarrus Community College - Spectrum Yearbook (Salisbury, NC)

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The beat up condition of this old car represents the former name of Rowan Tech as seen in this obsolete sign . . . A HISTORY OF ROWAN TECHNICAL COLLEGE In l958. the North Carolina legislature granted funds for the establishment of industrial education centers to be controlled by local superintendents and boards of education. By the early l96O's, Rowan Industrial Education Center had evolved. In I963. Rowan Technical Institute was chartered. Funding of Rowan Technical Institute was provided through North Carolina General Statute lI5A. lt was ranked twentieth for budgeting purposes. Rowan Technical Institute was the twentieth industrial education center to be begun in North Carolina. The first director was C, Merrill Hamilton, a graduate of Ball State University with a Master's degree from Ohio State. In l963, the school had only one building and was located on twenty-five acres of land. By I975, an additional three buildings had been built. These additions doubled the size of the campus. A parking lot and fifty more acres were added. Rowan Technical Institute was the twenty- first institution to be accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. and the second institution to be accredited by the North Carolina accrediting agency. lt was the first to be accredited by both.