Isaac Epps Ready (December 17, 1903^[1] –March 2, 1987^[2]) was the first President of the North Carolina Community College System, serving from 1963 to 1970.^[2]

Ready obtained degrees from the University of South Carolina and New York University, working as a teacher and principal in several North and South Carolina school districts from 1925 until 1945, when he became superintendent of the Roanoke Rapids public schools.^[2] In 1958, he was appointed to lead a curriculum study for the N.C. State Board of Education, resulting in the 1963 Community College Act that established the community college system in North Carolina. Ready was a co-author of the act.^[2] Following his retirement, he was appointed a visiting professor (later, an emeritus professor) of adult and community college education at North Carolina State University.^[2]

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