About Sandhills Community College

Sandhills Community College is a public community college in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Chartered in 1963, the college officially opened on October 1, 1965. It was the first comprehensive community college authorized and established due to legislation passed by the 1963 General Assembly of North Carolina and is part of the 58-campus North Carolina Community College System.

Sandhills has approximately 4,000 students enrolled in college-credit curriculum courses annually and over 11,000 students who take continuing education courses.

Sandhills Community College was the first comprehensive community college in NC to offer a transfer program. All instructors of courses that transfer hold a master’s degree or higher. The student-to-teacher ratio is much lower than first- and second-year students typically experience at four-year universities and colleges.

The Dempsey Student Center houses the college bookstore, areas for study, a gymnasium, a fitness center, locker rooms, a game room, a full-service cafeteria, dining areas, and the Ewing Leadership Center. Outside the Dempsey Student Center is a basketball court, tennis courts, a baseball field, a picnic shelter, walking trails, sand volleyball courts, and a ropes course.

Horticultural Gardens

The college is also home to the 32-acre Sandhills Horticultural Gardens. Designed and maintained by students in the Landscape Gardening program, the site contains 14 themed gardens, including a whimsical Children’s Garden and a Japanese Garden. A formal English Garden exhibits several smaller gardens, including a Fountain Courtyard, a Ceremonial Courtyard, and an Herb Garden. The most extensive accessible holly collection on the east coast is the Ebersole Holly Garden.

Athletics

The Athletic program offers golf and basketball for men. Women can participate in volleyball, beach volleyball and golf. Competition is through Region X of the NJCAA. The teams are the “Flyers” with the mascot an aviator named Marty McFlyer. In recent years, national championships have been won by two men’s basketball teams and three men’s golf teams.

Locations

The main campus is centrally located in North Carolina in Pinehurst at 3395 Airport Road. This is only 40 miles from downtown Fayetteville, 30 miles from Ft. Bragg, and 24 miles from Raeford. The Sandhills Hoke Center is at 1110 E. Central Avenue in Raeford. The college also teaches Public Safety and construction classes at the Larry R. Caddell Training Center in Carthage and College and Career Readiness classes at the Robbins Center in downtown Robbins.

Sandhills was the first comprehensive community college in North Carolina to offer a college transfer program. @sandhillscc