The NC Community College System is focused on one mission:

Elevating North Carolina’s future by delivering a diverse, highly skilled talent pipeline aligned to the labor market, supporting economic mobility that creates transformational generational change, and setting the national standard for innovation in higher education and workforce development.

• Education, training and retraining for the workforce including basic skills and literacy education, occupational and pre-baccalaureate programs.
• Support for economic development through services to and in partnership with business and industry and in collaboration with the University of North Carolina System and private colleges and universities.
• Services to communities and individuals which improve the quality of life.