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  • A newly built Durham Industrial Education Center before Lawson Street was paved. It became ²Ê¿â±¦µäappnical Institute in 1965.
  • Harold K. Collins, first president (1961-1975)
  • Members of the first class of 34 students in 1961 enrolled in Mechanical Engineering Technology, Dental Technology, Distribution and Marketing Technology, and Automotive Engineering Technology
  • 1966 Practical Nursing
  • 1969 Mechanical Engineering Technology
  • Police Science AAS was added in 1969
  • 1969 Dental Laboratory Technology
  • 1969 Electronics Engineering Technology
  • 1969 Secretarial Science
  • two students draw equations on blackboard as the instructor watches
    1969 Mathematics class
  • three students gather around a lab as the instructor points at a dangling chains suspended from a rod
    1969 physics lab
  • 1960s photo of students and instructor looking at insides of outdated electronics equipment with dials
    Electronics Engineering Technology in the 1960s





  • 1969 Industrial and Engineering Technologies Building (later renamed for George W. Newton) was opened
  • 1973 opticianry lab with several students practicing with equipment and laughing and talking
    Opticianry was added to the curriculum in 1971
  • 1973 inhalation therapy student in lab practicing with "patient" using an old-fashioned looking respiration device
    Inhalation Therapy, a new and fast growing specialty, was added in 1971
  • a basketball player takes a shot during a game
    In 1971, the Gamecocks basketball team was formed.
  • basketball players jump for the rebound under the hoop
    They competed in the Piedmont Athletic
    Conference of Technical Institutes (PACTI)
  • eight DTI cheerleaders in uniforms pose in formation
    The cheerleaders encouraged team spirit
  • 1971 student uses electric typewriter to create computer forms
    1971 Data Processing replaces Secretarial Science
  • 1983 student uses a boxy personal computer to enter data
    1983 Computer Programming replaces Data Processing
  • 1997 the program splits into Information Systems and Network Administration & Support
  • Headshot of second president John Crumpton
    John Crumpton, second president (1975-1980) came to ²Ê¿â±¦µäapp from IBM.
  • headshot of Dr. Phail Wynn Jr.
    Phail Wynn, Jr., third president (1980-2007), was
    the youngest and the first black community college president in North Carolina.
  • headshot of Dr. William Ingram, fourth president
    William G. Ingram (2008-2019), fourth president, served at ²Ê¿â±¦µäapp since 1983.
  • 1974 Bus ad ²Ê¿â±¦µäappnical Institute Paycheck Education
    1974 Bus ad
  • 2021 bus ad College is now affordable. It's our Promise
    2021 Bus ad