Resources and Student Services

Admissions

The Admissions Department at Durham Tech assists students with the process of applying to a curriculum program. Admissions officers answer questions about requirements for admission, provide information about placement testing opportunities, award transfer credit, and keep students informed about items required for full acceptance into programs.

For more information, contact the Admissions office at admissions@durhamtech.edu or (919) 686-3333.

Advising Center

Durham Tech's Advising Center offers assistance in locating and securing an academic advisor, coordinates academic advising during scheduled registration periods, conducts new student advising following the college placement test, assists students with generating a PIN number for telephone registration, and is open at posted daily hours during with students can drop in for advising or obtain an advising referral.

For more information, visit the Advising Center web site or contact the Advising Center at (919) 686-3348. (Note: Students interested in registering for online courses should also consult the detailed online course registration instructions.)

Counseling and Student Development Services

The Counseling and Student Development Department offers academic and brief personal counseling to students in need. Confidential help with conflict resolution, personal issues, academic problems, study skills, career decisions, and other college life issues is available.

Contact a counselor at counseling@durhamtech.edu or (919) 686-3652.

Disability Services

Disability accommodations and services are available to qualified students with disabilities. Students needing accommodations due to any physical, psychological, or learning disability should contact the Disability Services Coordiantor at least two weeks prior to the need for accommodations. Asessment documentation of the disability is required to establish an accommodation plan.

For more information, contact a disability services coordinator at counseling@durhamtech.edu or (919) 686-3652.

Financial Aid

The Financial Aid Department assists students with applying for federal financial aid including the Pell Grant and other need-based programs. Information about Durham Tech scholarships is also available.

To apply for financial aid assistance directly online, visit www.fafsa.ed.gov and start your application. When you fill out the application, make sure to put Durham Tech's school code - 005448 to help speed up the process. For information or assistance, contact the Financial Aid Department at (919) 686-3660.

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Library services

Durham Tech's library has a wide variety of materials available to you online:

• Books in the Durham Tech library

Durham Tech's library catalog is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.cclinc.ncccs.cc.nc.us. (At that address, scroll down to Durham Technical Community College and choose the appropriate index -- Main, Northern Durham, or Chapel Hill campus)

• Books at other North Carolina community colleges

At the same web address (http://www.cclinc.ncccs.cc.nc.us), you can search the catalogs of 43 other North Carolina community college libraries. Students and faculty from each of the 44 colleges may borrow from other libraries in the consortium by placing a hold on the item in the online catalog. Also, Durham Tech students may use most other community college libraries in the state and borrow from them in person, due to a reciprocal lending agreement.

• Full-text newspaper, magazine and journal databases

The Durham Tech library also provides remote access to several full-text databases. These databases include NC LIVE, InfoTrac, NewsBank, and SIRS. A list and description of these databases can be found on the library web page.

Students in distance education classes can obtain passwords to those databases by sending an e-mail message to library@durhamtech.edu. The student should provide his/her name and the course number and section (for example, ENG 111, section 090) of the distance education class.

See the library web page for more information. If you have questions or need any assistance, contact the library at library@durhamtech.edu or (919) 686-3369.

Registration

The Registraiton Department provides information about registration dates, telephone registration, registration changes, withdrawal procedures, and change of address requests.

Contact the registration department at (919) 686-3378 or (919) 686-3379 for one of the above requests, however to actually register for a course, please choose one of these options:

To register for online classes, consult the detailed online course registration instructions.
To register for traditional classes, consult the printed class schedule, and the Advising Center web site.

Tutoring at the Campus Learning Center (CLC)

The Campus Learning Center offers free tutoring in Accounting, Computers, Math, Reading, Science, Spanish, and Writing.

See the CLC web site for complete information, or contact the CLC at clc@durhamtech.edu or (919) 686-3554.

General contact information

To find out how to contact a specific Durham Tech department, go to the Contact Us page on this site or to the Departmental Directory on the main Durham Tech web site. You can call the main switchboard at (919) 686-3300.