Ash Selected to Present at National Conference
Owensboro, KY (01/28/2019) — OCTC's Fulbright Scholar and Associate Professor of History, Dr. Angela Ash, has been selected to present her work, Joint-Admissions Explored: Determining the Existence of a Transfer-Affirming Culture Between Rural Southern Community College and Regional State University at the 2019 Council for the Study of Community Colleges 61st Annual Conference in San Diego, California in March. This work is an extension of her dissertation research.
Ash added, "Being selected is such an honor. This is a great opportunity to represent OCTC."
The Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) is an affiliate of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and a project of the Center for the Study of Community Colleges (www.centerforcommunitycolleges.org) hosted by the Bill J. Priest Center for Community College Education. Council members include university-based researchers and community college practitioners who further scholarship on the community college enterprise.
"Dr. Ash is an example of how a community college student, a veteran, can forge their own path and really work hard to achieve their dreams. And once they achieve one goal, strive to keep moving forward and create more! Dr. Ash embodies this critical research having personally followed a community college transfer pathway. We are very proud of her and all her accomplishments" commented Dr. Scott Williams, OCTC President.
Ash is an OCTC alumnus, a veteran of the U.S. Navy, teaches in the Department of History and is an Associate Professor. Ash earned her undergraduate degree in history from Brescia University, her master's degree in History from the University of Louisville, and a doctoral degree from Western Kentucky University.
Ash also serves Secretary of the Owensboro World Affairs Council, is the faculty advisor for the Hager Scholars program, and has been teaching at OCTC since 2011.
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Owensboro Community & Technical College is one of the sixteen community and technical colleges that make up the Kentucky Community & Technical College System. OCTC serves the KY counties of Daviess, Hancock, Ohio and McLean. OCTC has three campuses in Daviess County and a Center and Annex in Hancock County. OCTC strives to serve the communities in the service area by providing associate degree education for transfer, state of the art technical education for students focusing on entering the workforce, customized business and industry solutions through the Workforce Solutions division, and adult education and business and industry testing through the SkillTrain unit.
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The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is the Commonwealth's largest postsecondary institution with 16 colleges and more than 70 campuses. We also are Kentucky's largest provider of workforce training and online education. Through partnerships with business and industry, we align our programs to meet the needs of local employers. We help students fulfill their dreams of creating a better life through programs that lead directly to jobs or help them transfer to one of our four-year partners.
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OCTC’s Fulbright Scholar and Associate Professor of History, Dr. Angela Ash, has been selected to present her work, Joint-Admissions Explored: Determining the Existence of a Transfer-Affirming Culture Between Rural Southern Community College and Regional State University at the 2019 Council for the Study of Community Colleges 61st Annual Conference in San Diego, California in March.