RALEIGH, N.C., June 10 -- The North Carolina Community College System issued the following news release:
With weeks left in a career that started in a Guilford County classroom and ended at the head of North Carolina's 58-college community college system, President Jeff Cox on Friday was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the state's highest civilian honor.
State Board of Community Colleges member Sarah West presented the award on behalf of Gov. Josh Stein at the Board's May meeting in Raleigh, recognizing Cox's three decades of service to public education in North Carolina. The Order, established in 1963, has been awarded to fewer than 20,000 North Carolinians in its 60-year history.
"It is not given lightly," West said in present...