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. – Current Community
& Professional Service

• Randolph Economic Development Commision Board of Directors
  • Chair of the Industrial Product Development Committee
• United Way of Randolph County Board of Directors
  • Chair, Governance Committee
  • Chair, Randolph County United Way Campaign (2011 Campaign Video)
  • Member, Executive Committe
• Randolph Hospital
  • Corporate Membership Board
  • Board of Directors
    • Member, Planning Committee
    • Member, Recruitment Committee
  • Randolph Hospital Community Health Foundation
• Randolph County Board of Education Community Trustee
• Information Technology Review Team, North Carolina Community College System
• Commission on Learning Technology, North Carolina Community College System
  • Member, Hardware and Software Infrastructure Committee
• Joint Legislative Planning Committee, North Carolina Community College System
• North Carolina Association of Community College Presidents
  • Executive Commitee
  • Vice Chair, Legislative Committee
  • Presidents' Association Liaison to the Student Leadership Development Program, North Carolina Community College System
  • Presidents' Association Liaison to the N.C. Community College Student Government Association
  • Presidents' Association Innovative Ideas Committee
• Randolph Rotary Club
  • Immediate Past President (2010-2011)
  • Chair, Youth Career Fair Committee
  • Chair, New Member Class Project Committee
  • Former Secretary
  • Former Chair of the Youth Services Committee
• Member, Pfeiffer University Presidential Search Committee (2010)
• Member, New Salem United Methodist Church, Randleman
  • Member, Pastor-Parish Relations Committee
  • Stewardship Director

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. Teresa Shackleford is the financial director for Merce Clinic.

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