Forsyth Tech history

1963 The North Carolina Department of Community Colleges is established and the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Industrial Education Center passes to the new community college system

1964 The College adopts a new name, Forsyth Technical Institute

A two-year nursing degree was first offered at Forsyth Tech in the fall of 1972.

1974 The College Foundation is created to work with alumni to raise funds for buildings, programs and scholarships

Forsyth Tech’s Mazie S. Woodruff Center is named for the first African-American elected to the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners, which happened in 1978.

1987 The School acquires its current name, Forsyth Technical Community College

1991 Bob Greene Hall is added, with spacious classrooms and laboratories

1992 Allman Center is created, with more classrooms and administrative space

The Woodruff Center opened in 1998.

Grover F. Shugart, CEO of Shugart Enterprises, who provided funds to endow the Center in 2002.

2006 A five-story, 85,000 square foot technology building opens on the college’s main campus, allowing Forsyth Tech to provide diverse technology training.

Krishauna Hines-Gaither, our 2007 Distinguished Alumni award winner, had never taken a Spanish class before she attended Forsyth Tech and she is now a professor of Spanish at Salem College.

2008 The school opens a third off-campus building, the Northwest Forsyth Center in King, housing specialized training facilities for the Criminal Justice, Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Science programs.

The first CareersNOW graduating class in North Carolina was at Forsyth Tech – the ceremony was held December 10, 2009.

Forsyth Tech is one of only 11 of the state’s 58 community colleges to have met or exceeded 2010 standards for “Exceptional Institutional Performance.”