Alamance Community College trustee Dr. Charles K. Scott told his fellow trustees at the end of their latest meeting Monday night that he would be resigning from the board, effective immediately.
Scott’s resignation comes midway through his second, four-year term on ACC’s board of trustees. He said he and his wife will be moving early next month to Winston-Salem to be closer to their son.
The founder and retired president of Burlington Pediatrics, Scott was originally appointed to ACC’s board by the Alamance-Burlington school board in 2018 and reappointed to a second term in 2022.
However, the responsibility for appointing someone to complete the remaining two years of Scott’s term now falls to the General Assembly, under a 2023 change in a state law that governs community college trustee appointments.
That change was originally included in a bill introduced in the state senate in April 2023 – and cosponsored by senator Amy Galey, who represents Alamance County and a portion of Randolph County – but was subsequently incorporated into the biennial state budget passed by the General Assembly in September 2023.
The budgetary provision eliminated the authority of local school boards and the governor to appoint four trustees each to North Carolina’s 58 community college trustee boards, instead giving the authority to appoint eight members of each trustee board to the General Assembly. Boards of county commissioners retained their authority for appointing four members to each community college’s 12-member board.
Scott is the second trustee to resign from ACC’s board in as many months.
ACC trustee Mark Gordon resigned on October 14, which ACC officials later said was because he’d accepted a leadership role with an organization outside of Alamance County. Then-president of Alamance Regional Medical Center, Gordon had been appointed to ACC’s board in 2022 by Alamance County’s commissioners, who will be responsible for appointing a successor to serve the remainder of Gordon’s term, which runs through June 30, 2026.
Scott is the cousin of former North Carolina Governor Robert (Bob) Scott and nephew of Elizabeth Scott Carrington, who donated 48 acres of land in Haw River for what is now known as ACC’s Carrington-Scott campus.
Scott was a captain in the Air Force during the Vietnam War and a U.S. Army Reserves major for 15 years, later earning the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, one of North Carolina’s highest civilian honors for public service, in 2015. His current term on ACC’s board runs through June 30, 2026.
Meanwhile, ACC’s trustees voted 10-0 Monday night to appoint trustee Ken Walker as the board’s vice chairman, in place of Gordon, who had been selected for that post earlier this fall. (ACC trustee Sylvia Munoz was absent.)
The terms for the trustees’ chairman and vice chairman run through June 30, 2025, concurrent with the end of the fiscal year.
