Recent News

OCTC NEH MINI-GRANTS OFFERED

Owensboro Community & Technical College is pleased to announce a new annual NEH Mini-Grant available through OCTC's Humanities Department and Common Reading program. Funding will be granted in any amount, up to $2,000. These funds may be granted ...

Aug 14, 2019, 5:10pm EDT

OCTC Extended Hours for Registration

Owensboro Community & Technical College is open for registration this Saturday, August 17, from 9 a.m. -12 p.m. on the main campus in the Campus Center. Many students will be able to apply and register on the same day. The OCTC Bookstore, also located ...

Aug 12, 2019, 12:39pm EDT

OCTC Opening Hancock Innovation Labs, July 15

OCTC, in partnership with Hancock County Public Schools (HCPS), is set to unveil three Innovation Labs on Monday, July 15, 2019 at 12 noon, at OCTC's Hancock County Center, located at 8010 Highway 60 West in Lewisport. In January 2019, OCTC unveiled...

Jul 12, 2019, 10:07am EDT

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

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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

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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

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. 

These Merit pages are used to celebrate the successes of our students and will serve them as an online portfolio of achievements.