Surry Business

The N.C. State Board of Community Colleges has approved Dr. Deborah Friedman as the fifth president of Surry Community College in Dobson.

She is presently vice president for human resources at Fayetteville Technical Community College. Friedman has been in the Community College System since 1980, having also worked at Sampson Community College.

She succeeds retiring president Dr. Frank Sells.

Friedman will assume her new position Jan. 1, 2008.