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OCTC Announces Common Read Selection for Fall 2019
The Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) Common Reading selection for the fall 2019 semester will be, We Are Called to Rise, by Laura McBride. The novel is set in Las Vegas, Nevada and follows four divergent narrators with interwoven plo...
Jul 1, 2019, 8:00am EDT
OCTC RAD Students Achieve 100% Pass Rate for National Licensure Exam
Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) had eightstudents graduate with an Associate in Applied Science degree in Radiography in May. These students must also successfully pass a national professional licensure exam administered by American Re...
Jun 21, 2019, 4:27pm EDT
Brian Striplin Continues to Set Higher Goals
At the age of thirty-five, Brian Striplin completed his GED through Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) SkillTrain Adult Education program. Striplin says overcoming the fear of completing an education as an adult was his largest hurdle. A...
Jun 7, 2019, 12:40pm EDT
OCTC Recognized as Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador
Owensboro Community & Technical College has been named a Weather-Ready Nation (WRN) Ambassador by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This effort is to formally recognize NOAA partners who are improving the nation's readiness, r...
Jun 6, 2019, 6:14pm EDT
OCTC's Sheri Plain Named a 2019 Influential Women in Manufacturing
Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) is proud to announce that Sheri Plain, director of Workforce Services in OCTC's Workforce Solutions department has been named one of twenty-seven honorees recognized as 2019's Influential Women in Manufact...
Jun 5, 2019, 4:02pm EDT
OCTC Dean Receives University Faculty Award from WKU
Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) Interim Academic Dean, Dr. Stacy Edds-Ellis was selected to receive the University Faculty Excellence in Part-time Teaching Award, from Western Kentucky University (WKU) in April. Edds-Ellis was honored ...
Jun 3, 2019, 3:22pm EDT
OCTC's KOOL Academy Participants
Three Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) employees participated in a statewide KCTCS KOOL Academy: Assistant Professor Jacqueline Siljander in the Veterinary Technology program (KOOL Academy Faculty), Instructor Julie Embry coordinator of t...
May 31, 2019, 1:11pm EDT
OCTC's Dean List Spring 2019
The Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) Dean's List recognizes the acadmeic excellence of full-time students in Spring 2019 who earned at least a 3.5 grade point average (GPA) while successfully completing 12 hours or more of course work num...
May 31, 2019, 9:55am EDT
OCTC's President's List Spring 2019
The Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) President's List recognizes the academic excellence of full-time students in Spring 2019 earning all A grades in at least 12 hours of course work numbered 100 or above. The following students, liste...
May 29, 2019, 3:46pm EDT
OCTC Raises Funds for Student Food Pantry
Owensboro Community & Technical College hosted an internal fundraising event to raise funds for a student food pantry. A small group of employees came up with the idea of setting up a "pop-up" restaurant to serve breakfast, and the OCTC Food Pantry Fea...
May 24, 2019, 5:20pm EDT