Business View Magazine | October 2020

225 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2020 NORTH CAROL INA WESLEYAN COLLEGE unheard of at smaller colleges like NCWC. We also have great partnerships with organizations that allow our students to enter internships, often paid, and experience the workplace before they graduate. Last year, we partnered with Sony Music in New York City and sent our music production students to learn about the business of music and music production. It’s partnerships like those that make us unique.” The college also emphasizes the importance of trying to provide financial support for students that might otherwise struggle to attend a post- secondary institution due to the costs. “We have close to 50 different scholarships that students can apply for, as well as internal grant opportunities,” says Dr. Duff. “We find that the majority of students typically end up paying a little less than half of the yearly tuition, room, and board costs. Between our different scholarships and internal funding opportunities, most students find that we’re very affordable. We can never compete with community colleges or state schools but, compared to some of the larger state research institutions in North Carolina, we are very competitive from that perspective. If you look at all of the private colleges in North Carolina regarding cost and attendance, we come in around the middle, and that’s before any endowed scholarships or grants are applied.” This past year has been important for North Carolina Wesleyan College on a development level, as well. The school has gone through several major projects to upgrade the campus infrastructure, some of the funding for which has been provided via a generous donation of $3.3 million. “We’re referring to the new structure as our indoor sports and education facility,” says Dr. Duff. “The facility is, essentially, a pressurized bubble that is around 48,000 square feet that will houses indoor tennis courts, squash courts, and a pickleball court, and eventually it will have golf simulators as well. On the academic side, it’s going to be a brand new space for