Recent News

Blanco, Roof and Skaggs Join OCTC

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) is proud to announce the following new employees that have joined the organization. Andrew Blanco has joined the Workforce Solutions team as an Instructional Designer working with OCTC's AMTEC init...

Sep 6, 2018, 2:10pm EDT

OCTC Hosts 2019 Study Abroad Info Sessions

On Tuesday, September 11, 2018, informational meetings about the Spring 2019 OCTC Study Abroad trip, "The Holocaust" and Eastern Europe: Budapest, Krakow, (Auschwitz), Prague, and Vienna will be held in the Learning Resource Center (OCTC Library), Room...

Sep 5, 2018, 5:13pm EDT

Embry joins OCTC as Coordinator for MIT and AOT Programs

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) is proud to announce that Julie K. Embry has joined the organization's faculty as an instructor and program coordinator for the Medical Information Technology (MIT) and Administrative Office Technology...

Sep 4, 2018, 11:00am EDT

OCTC's EMT Students Earn 87% First Time Pass Rate

Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) Emergency Medical Technology (EMT) program graduates have achieved an 87% first time pass rate on the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technician's (NREMT) licensure exam. "Our aim is to giv...

Aug 30, 2018, 10:37am EDT

AMTEC and Boeing are looking for a few good graduates...willing to relocate

Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) Advanced Manufacturing Technical Education Collaborative (AMTEC) is co-hosting regional open recruiting events with Boeing at Elizabethtown Community & Technical College (ECTC) and Somerset Commu...

Aug 29, 2018, 8:00am EDT

Borregard Selected as OCTC's Dean of Student Affairs

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) has selected Dr. Andrea Borregard for the position of Dean of Student Affairs. The position provides leadership, management, and oversight of the Financial Aid Office, centralized advising, including c...

Aug 27, 2018, 8:00am EDT

OCTC Alumnus is Miss KY 2018

Katie Bouchard, the current Miss Kentucky and Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) almnus stopped by the OCTC booth at Friday After 5 on August 17. Bouchard is currently studying social work at WKU. She will go on to represent Kentucky i...

Aug 20, 2018, 10:27am EDT

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OCTC's Book Group Covering an Array of Classics

Owensboro Community & Technical College's book discussion group meets on Tuesday afternoons at 3:30 p.m. in the Humanities building in room H-103, on the main campus at 4800 New Hartford Road, Owensboro. Featured this semester are Robert Penn W...

Aug 20, 2018, 9:50am EDT

OCTC Holding Open Auditions for Getting Out

Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) Oak Island Theatre has been holding productions since 1989. Dr. Julia Ledford has been at the helm for all of those productions, most often as Director. But this time the opportunity has presented it...

Aug 15, 2018, 8:00am EDT

OCTC Common Read Selects Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award Winning Author Marsha Norman for Fall 2018 Semester

The Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) Common Reading for fall 2018 will be a play written by the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning Kentucky-native playwright Marsha Norman, Getting Out. Norman earned a John Gassner Medallion and th...

Aug 15, 2018, 7:00am 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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