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Robert B. Garrett had a 24-year career at Central Carolina Community College in Harnett County. He started as the director of Continuing Education in 1979 and retired in 2003 as the first CCCC provost for Harnett County.

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The groundbreaking ceremony for the High Technology Building on the Harnett County Campus in Lillington was held Sept. 28, 1989. Pictured (from left) are: Avron Upchurch, CCCC dean of Instruction; representative of the general contractor; Hal Siler, CCCC trustee from Lee County; Bill Shaw and Sam Miriello, the first CCCC trustees appointed from Harnett County; architect Derrell Mullin; and President Marvin Joyner. The facility, the second building on the campus, opened for use in 1991. It was renamed the Bob R. Etheridge Advanced Technology Center in 2000 in gratitude for his assistance, while serving as a state representative, in obtaining state funds to help build it.

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The Continuing Education Building, competed in 1985, was the first building on Central Carolina Community College's Harnett County Campus, in Lillington. A 7,100-square-foot expansion was added at the southeast end in 1987, doubling the size of the facility. It included classrooms, shops, laboratories, offices, library, and space for the director of the Harnett County Development Commission.

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Wellon's Warehouse, on Ashe Avenue in Dunn, provided space for the college's Machine Shop and other vocational and adult education programs for several years in the early 1980s.

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The Samuel R. Mirello Administration and Classroom Building opened in 1998 on Central Carolina Community College's Harnett County Campus. In 1978, Miriello, as chair of the Dunn Area Chamber of Commerce's Economic Development Committee, promoted the idea of an industrial training center in Harnett County. He served on a number of committees to bring it to fruition. In 1986, he became one of the first trustees appointed from Harnett County to the college's board of trustees, serving until 1997. He also served on the CCCC Foundation Board of Directors.