Office of the President

Randolph Community College is a member institution of the North Carolina Community College System. It is governed by a 13-member Board of Trustees with four appointees from the Governor's Office, four from the Randolph County Board of Commissioners, and two each from the Randolph County Board of Education and the Asheboro City Board of Education. The 13th member (non-voting) is the current Student Government Association president.

 

President's Staff

Dr. Robert S. Shackleford Jr., President
Wanda C. Brown, Executive Assistant to the President & Board of Trustees
Marie S. Miller, Administrative Assistant, President's Office

Dr. Robert S. Shackleford Jr. – Community Affiliations

• Member, Board of Directors, United Way of Randolph County
  • Chair, Governance Committee, United Way of Randolph County
• Member, Randolph County Board of Education Trustees
• Member, Regional Partnership Workforce Development Board
• Chair, Randolph County JobLink Career Center Leadership Team
• Member, Information Systems of the Future Committee, North Carolina Community College System
• Member, North Carolina Association of Community College Presidents
  • Chair, Technology Committee, North Carolina Association of Community College Presidents
  • Liaison of the North Carolina Association of Community College Presidents to the Institutional Information Processing System (IIPS) Professional Organization
• Member, Randolph Rotary Club
  • Secretary, Randolph Rotary Club
• Member, Board of Directors, Randolph Hospital
• Member, Governmental Affairs Committee, Asheboro/Randolph Chamber of Commerce

 

Dr. Robert S. Shackleford Jr. - Background

Randolph Community College President Dr. Robert S. Shackleford Jr. assumed leadership of Randolph Community College on January 1, 2007. He was officially inaugurated as the fourth president of Randolph Community College on March 8, 2007, in a ceremony attended by over 200 colleagues, community members, friends and family members at AVS Banquet Centre.

Shackleford formerly served as dean of student services at Randolph Community College from 2000-2003 before taking the vice president of student services position at Rockingham Community College. He first joined Randolph in 1998 as the program head for the Early Childhood Associate curriculum and eventually became chair of the Human Services department. He also taught early childhood education, human development, family studies, sociology, human relations and leadership development at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, High Point University, and Gardner-Webb University.

Shackleford earned an associate degree in secondary education from Bluefield College in Bluefield, Va., and a bachelor's degree in physical education from the School of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo. He completed his master's degree in child development and family studies and a doctorate in human development and family studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He also holds a master of divinity degree from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C.

A member of the U.S. Army Reserves from 1985-1992, Shackleford served as battalion chaplain and assistant division chaplain. He served as a chaplain in the North Carolina Air National Guard from 1992 until his retirement in January 2008. From 1997 until his retirement, he was the Wing Chaplain (senior supervisory chaplain) for the 145th Airlift Wing.

Prior to returning to Randolph Community College in 2007, Shackleford was active in leadership roles for the United Way of Rockingham County and the Rockingham County Partnership for Children. He was a member of the Madison-Mayodan Rotary Club, the Rockingham County Mental Health Board, the Piedmont Triad Education Consortium, and was a 2004 graduate of Leadership Rockingham.

During his earlier tenure in Randolph County (1998-2003), he was a member of the Cooperative Extension Advisory Committee, the Business & Education Committee of the Asheboro/Randolph County Chamber of Commerce, the JobLink Career Center Management Team, the Job Service Employer Committee of the Employment Security Commission, the Randolph County Partnership for Children, and the Continuous Improvement Monitoring System Steering Committee of the Randolph County Board of Education. He graduated from Leadership Randolph in 2000.

He attended the Future Presidents Institute in 2005, winning the Herring Fellowship, a scholarship awarded by the North Carolina Community College System Foundation. He is a past member of the advisory board for the North Carolina Network for Excellence in Teaching, the NCCCS Staff Person of the Year Selection Committee, the Student Development Personnel Association, and served as president of the Student Development Administrators Association.

Shackleford is a frequent speaker at local civic clubs, schools and churches, and a regular presenter at professional workshops and conferences. He speaks twice a year to the Student Leadership Institute, a statewide training program for student leaders from community colleges throughout the state.

Shackleford and his wife, Teresa, live in Randleman with their son, Will. He also has two grown children, Kristi and Kori, and one granddaughter, Brianna.

Contact President Robert S. Shackleford and his staff

Telephone: 336-633-0286
Mailing address:
Office of the President
Randolph Community College
PO Box 1009
Asheboro, N.C. 27204-1009