Sandhills Community College - Campus

Campus

Sandhills Community College is located on 150 acres (0.61 km2) of long leaf pine-filled land in Pinehurst, North Carolina. The college moved to its present location from Southern Pines in March 1966.

The Sandhills Community College campus comprises eleven instructional buildings. Several recent additions to the college campus are Logan Hall, the Dempsey Student Center, Little Hall and Steed Hall. Named for Dr. John Dempsey, the current and only the second President of Sandhills, 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 of the Dempsey Student Center is a basketball court, tennis courts, sports fields, a picnic shelter, walking trails and a ropes course. A sand volleyball court is planned.

Computer Technologies, Hospitality and Culinary Arts, and Engineering Technologies are taught in the building named in honor of the college’s long-time Board of Trustee chair, George W. Little. In Little Hall, the Charles and Jane Wellard Technology Center houses state-of-the-art computer equipment, and culinary and baking classes are conducted in the Peggy Kirk Bell Center for Hospitality and the Culinary Arts.

Steed Hall was dedicated in the fall of 2010 and houses the Landscape Gardening program.

The college is also home to the 32-acre (130,000 m2) 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 new Japanese Garden. The largest accessible holly collection on the east coast is found in the Ebersole Holly Garden. A formal English Garden exhibits several smaller gardens, including the Holly Maze, the Fountain Courtyard, the Sunken Garden, the Ceremonial Courtyard, and the Herb Garden.

In addition to the main campus, the Hoke Center located in Raeford provides curriculum, continuing education and basic job skills courses. It is also home to SandHoke Early College High School. Basic Skills and Human Resources Development courses are offered at the Westmoore Center in Robbins, NC.