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NC State
College of Education Names Templin Distinguished Alumnus
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The
North Carolina State University College of Education
has named Dr. Robert Templin Jr. of Centreville,
Va., as its 2002 Distinguished Alumnus.
Templin
currently serves as the fourth president of Northern
Virginia Community College, Virginia's largest
institution of higher education and the nation's
second largest community college. Located just
outside of Washington, D.C., NVCC enrolls more
than 64,000 students annually at its five campuses.
Templin previously served as a senior fellow at
the Morino Institute, helping the development
and launch of Venture Philanthropy Partners, a
$35 million philanthropic fund targeting youth-serving
organizations in low-income communities in the
Washington metro area.
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Dr.
Robert Templin
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Between
1994 and 1999, Templin served as the president of Virginia's
Center for Innovative Technology, a state-funded organization
that enhances Virginia's economic competitiveness through
technology-based economic development. During Templin's
tenure, the center was credited with helping to create
or retain more than 12,000 high-tech jobs, attract or
create more than 225 technology-based companies, and
increase company sales or new capital investment by
more than $500 million. From 1986 to 1994 Templin served
as president of Thomas Nelson Community in Hampton,
Va.
Over
the past 15 years, Templin's work in workforce training,
education and economic development has been featured
in such publications as The Washington Post, USA Today
and Fortune. He is the author of Virginia's comprehensive
workforce development plan and was instrumental in the
creation of the "Blueprint for Technology-Based
Economic Growth in Virginia," a strategic plan
that outlines the steps that Virginia should take to
guide the state's emergence as a leading technology
state. In 1998, Digital South named him one of the top
50 influential technology leaders in the South. The
Virginia Technology Alliance, representing the state's
eight regional technology councils, awarded Templin
its first-ever Distinguished Leadership Award in 1999.
Templin
earned a doctorate in adult and community college education
from NC State in 1976. He also received a master's degree
in international relations from Georgetown University
in 1972, and a bachelor's degree in political science
from Towson University in 1969.
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