Western Regional Center

NC-NET’s Western Regional Center is led by Southwestern Community College in Sylva. The center is responsible for leading the development of Teaching and Learning as well as Career and Personal Development resources.

Western Regional Center Summer Book Clubs

Looking for a way to stay connected this summer?

The NC-NET Western Regional Center invites you to join your community college colleagues in a virtual (online) book club this summer:

Community College Teaching Book Club
Receive a free copy of Parker Palmer’s The Courage to Teach. Join online discussions in June and July. Discussions will be facilitated by Peter Buck, counselor in Student Support Services at Southwestern Community College.

Community College Leadership Book Club
Receive a free copy of Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality, by Dr. Henry Cloud. Join online discussions in June and July. Discussions will be facilitated by Dr. Joseph Fox, chair of business administration at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College.

To join a book club:
Call Darlene Peebles, 1-800-447-4091 ext. 300 or email dpeebles@southwesterncc.edu by May 16, 2008.

Materials for the Summer Book Clubs are provided by NC-NET: North Carolina Network for Excellence in Teaching, a Carl D. Perkins funded initiative to promote professional development in community and technical colleges.

The following video from the Western Regional Center's 2006 Teaching and Learning Conference requires the use of Real Player™. (If you do not have Real Player™ installed on your computer, please click here to download a free copy.)

The NC-NET team at Southwestern has developed three self-paced online courses for community college educators, Best Practices in Teaching and Learning for the Community College Classroom, Leadership Development for the Community College Educator, and Writing Across the Curriculum.

All self-paced modules can be accessed through the NC-NET Blackboard server. Log in with the user name faculty and the password nc-net. Once connected, you can view the courses by topic or alphabetically by title.

For more information about the Western Regional Center and its activities, contact:

Barb Putman
Western Regional Center Director
Southwestern Community College
447 College Drive
Sylva, NC 28779
E-mail: BPutman@southwesterncc.edu