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OCTC's Skaggs passion for education and horses

Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) Dr. Meredith Skaggs, communications professor, mentor, coordinator of OCTC's Cornerstone campus ministries, humanities department head, and wife to husband Nick Eskridge, is mother to three rescue dogs a...

Feb 16, 2021, 10:10am EST

OCTC New Employees

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) is proud to announce these new employees joining the institution. Tina Munoz, is the academic program facilitator, for the Workforce Solutions department at the Downtown Campus. Celestina "Tina" Muñoz ...

Feb 11, 2021, 6:13pm EST

OCTC Faculty Participate in Simulation Project for PPE

Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) was one of five colleges in the state taking part in a mock disaster excercise to better prepare and assist the Commonwealth for a statewide or community crisis in the future. The project focused on m...

Feb 8, 2021, 9:00am EST

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OCTC's Embry Earns Certification

Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) instructor and program coordinator for the Medical Information Technology (MIT) and Administrative Office Technology (AOT) programs, Julie Embry, recently received certification as an American Health Inf...

Feb 8, 2021, 8:00am EST

OCTC's "West Meets East" Art Exhibit

An exhibition comprised of local artists and artists representing time spent on the West coast in the Oregon area is David Wilson's first official community exhibit "West Meets East" curated at Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC). Wilson ser...

Feb 1, 2021, 8:00am EST

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OCTC Nursing Program Deadline for Applications

Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) program is currently accepting applications for students that will begin the program in August 2021. The ADN program prepares graduates to sit for the NCLEX-RN examination ...

Jan 27, 2021, 8:00am EST

OCTC's Common Reading Author: John Elder Robison

The Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) Common Reading selection for the Spring 2021 semester is The New York Times best-selling memoir, Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's, by John Elder Robison. The memoir is set in the 1960's...

Jan 26, 2021, 8:00am EST

Will you be ready when employers start hiring again?

In a few months, we hope the worst of COVID-19 is behind us. When that happens, the economy will improve, and employers will start hiring again. A big question is: Will they be able to find a trained and skilled workforce to fit the many open jobs ...

Jan 25, 2021, 1:43pm EST

OCTC Honors Employee Excellence

Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) employee awards program was held on December 10, 2020 as a virtual event. There are two categories the Awards of Excellence and the Peer Awards. The Awards of Excellence are the pinnacle award, winner...

Jan 25, 2021, 6:35am EST

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OCTC Foundation Hosting 4th Annual Trail Blazer Event

Owensboro Community & Technical College is hosting the fourth annual Trail Blazer event on Thursday, March 4, 2021 with featured guest Julie Croteau, the first female to play and coach in NCAA men's baseball. Croteau played Women's Major League Basebal...

Jan 20, 2021, 8:00am EST

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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