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Owensboro Community & Technical College Foundation, Inc. Receives Grant Funding to Upgrade Electrical Technology Lab

Owensboro Community & Technical College Foundation, Inc. recently received a grant from The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation to allow the OCTC Electrical Technology Lab to be upgraded and modernized to train students with the skills needed in business and i...

Oct 27, 2023, 9:00am EDT

OCTC Celebrates Transfer Student Week

National Transfer Student Week is October 16 - 20, and the Kentucky Community and Technical College System is proud to support thousands of transfer students each year. In the 2021-22 school year alone, 13,617 KCTCS students transferred to four-year co...

Oct 20, 2023, 3:39pm EDT

Annual Green River Firefighters Association Fall Fire School at OCTC

The Green River Firefighters Association, in collaboration with the KCTCS Kentucky Fire Commission/State Fire Rescue Training, is proud to host the Annual Green River Firefighters Association Fall Fire School from October 27 to 29, 2023. The event wil...

Oct 18, 2023, 8:00am EDT

Tenacious Tales! OCTC Celebrates 10 Years of Veterinary Technology Triumphs

Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) celebrates 10-year anniversary for Veterinary Technology program with Open House event on October 20, 2023 at the OCTC Downtown Campus, 1501 Frederica Street, Owensboro, KY 42301. The Open House will beg...

Oct 12, 2023, 9:00am EDT

OCTC's Common Reading Program Welcomes United States Poet Laureate, Ada Limon to Campus on Oct. 18, 2023

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) invites the community to participate in all related events for this fall's upcoming Common Reading event. The book for Fall 2023 semester is Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon, United States Poet Laureate. L...

Oct 11, 2023, 2:23pm EDT

Free Screening of "Clear Day Thunder: Rescuing the American Chestnut"

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) along with the Owensboro Museum of Science and History (OMSH), the Owensboro Botanical Gardens, the Kentucky Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation, and the Joe Ford Nature Center is proud to host an ...

Oct 4, 2023, 9:00am EDT

OCTC Offering Spanish for Health Professionals

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) is proud to announce a new course offered locally, Spanish for Health Professionals. SPA 151U is a 3-credit hour course that will be taught in a hybrid (in-person and online) format. The course is schedule...

Oct 3, 2023, 6:29pm EDT

OCTC Recognizes Constitution Day

On Monday, September 18, 2023, Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) recognizes Constitution Day with a presentation titled "A Federal Constitution and Notions of Equality" by Matt Alschbach. The presentation was shared with the campus communi...

Sep 18, 2023, 4:23pm EDT

OCTC's Oak Island Theatre Presents Horse Girls

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) Oak Island Theatre is thrilled to present its first show of the 2023-2024 season, Horse Girls, a high-energy play centered around a middle school horse girl club set in 2014. This three-day run will take p...

Sep 11, 2023, 8:00am EDT

OCTC's Common Reading Selection "Bright Dead Things" by Ada Limon, United States Poet Laureate

Aug 28, 2023, 1:47pm EDT

About Owensboro Community and Technical College

Owensboro Community & Technical College is a public, two-year, open admissions college accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and is one of the sixteen colleges that make up the Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS). The college values innovation, is focused on student learning, and is responsive to economic trends.

Most OCTC students are from the counties of Daviess, Ohio, Hancock and McLean in Kentucky, but many others travel from elsewhere in Kentucky and southern Indiana.

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