OCTC Board of Directors Elects New Leadership

by Bernie Hale

Owensboro, KY (11/16/2022) — Owensboro Community & Technical College Board of Directors elected members to new leadership positions for 2023 at their meeting held Thursday, November 10, 2022.

Doug Hoyt, CEO of the Wendell Foster Center was elected as Chair. Pat Jones, retired educator, will serve as Vice Chair, and M. Joan Hayden of Hayden Electric and Hayden Farms will serve as Secretary.

The ten-person board of directors is comprised of seven governor appointed members, and elected representatives from the student body, college faculty, and staff, respectively. Appointed members may serve six-year terms and elected members terms are three years.

Governor appointed members also includes Charles "Buzz" Backstrom, William K. Mounts, CeCelia W. Robinson and Jordan Lanham.

Elected members include Zara Basham, OCTC faculty representative, Sharmy Davis, OCTC staff representative, and the Student Representative is Silas Zuelly, who is the president of OCTC's Student Government Association.

"OCTC has been very fortunate to attract such prestigious board members who are interested in not only the success of the college, but in helping us stay relevant, so we continue being integral to workforce development and community needs" commented Dr. Scott Williams, OCTC President.

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.

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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