At the Wilkes Community College Board of Trustees meeting this month, Dr. Jeff Cox recognized two Ashe County High School students who both earned their Associate in Arts degrees a couple of weeks prior to their high school graduation: Anna Blackburn and Chloe Parker. Dr. Cox gave an update on the Ashe Early College High School. The 2018-2019 school year was a year of “Rising to the Challenge” for Ashe Early College High School, and he announce that the challenge was met. The first cohort of 60 students to enter the early college included 16 sophomores and 44 freshmen. Trustees also approved the new WCC policy manual. The WCC Board of Trustees will meet again on Thursday, October 10, 2019, at the John A. Walker Center, Lakey Ballroom.