WCC May Coordinate NC Culinary Exchange Program

Students at Wilkes Community College may have an opportunity unique among all community colleges in the nation. An exchange program is being proposed to allow NC culinary students the opportunity to study in Paris, France to enhance their culinary education. The proposal calls for a central entity that would be the liaison between the community colleges in North Carolina and the French school the culinary students would be attending. College representatives who met in October at the NC Community College System office are considering Wilkes as the central entity. This would be the only such exchange program for community college culinary students in the nation and the expected starting date for the program is spring 2008.