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Life Happens but Embry Encourages Adult Learners to Persevere
As a non-traditional adult student Julie Embry knows first-hand that "life happens". She also knows that life and fear can be significant obstacles to overcome when returning to college. "My first priority is to make sure that every student who come...
Mar 22, 2019, 2:05pm EDT
Owensboro Community & Technical College Student Named to 2019 Coca-Cola Academic Team
Owensboro Community & Technical College student Kaylee Meador has been named a 2019 Coca-Cola Academic Team Bronze Scholar and has earned a $1,000 scholarship. Meador is an OCTC Early College student, a Daviess County High School student enrolled fu...
Mar 21, 2019, 12:56pm EDT
OCTC's Workforce Solutions Offering Project Management Workshop
Owensboro Community and Technical College's Workforce Solutions division will offer a Project Management Workshop on May 8- 9, 2019. This workshop provides hands-on instruction in the fundamentals of project management. Participants will learn th...
Mar 19, 2019, 12:21pm EDT
OCTC Hosts Bestselling Author Thursday
The Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) Common Reading selection for the spring 2019 semester is, Binti by Nnedi Okorafor. Dr. Okorafor earned a Hugo and Nebula Award for this novella first published in 2015, it is a Tor.com book published...
Mar 19, 2019, 10:57am EDT
OCTC OFFERS HR CERTIFICATION PREP TRAINING
Owensboro Community and Technical College's Workforce Solutions division will offer an HR Certification Prep class for human resource professionals beginning April 11, 2019. This course is recommended for anyone currently working in a human resources p...
Mar 6, 2019, 11:28am EST
OCTC Student Earns National PTK Scholarship
Across the United States this year only fifteen Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) members are named as Guistwhite Scholars. Owensboro Community & Technical College's Brooklyn Michelle Knight was one of the students selected from more than 2,000 applicants. She an...
Mar 5, 2019, 2:56pm EST
OCTC Student Blazing Her Own Trail at Modern Welding
While the number of female welders across the country has grown in recent years, only 24% of welders in the United States are women. Kelsey Lyons, a 2018 graduate of Owensboro Community & Technical College refused to let the odds keep her from followin...
Feb 28, 2019, 5:38pm EST
OCTC 2nd Annual Girls Empowerment Trail Blazer Dinner
Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) will host the 2nd Annual Girls Empowerment Trail Blazer Dinner on Thursday, March 7, at 5:30 p.m. in OCTC's Industry Innovation Center, featuring Nikki Epilon-Bryant. Eplion-Bryant will share her story and...
Feb 28, 2019, 12:00pm EST
Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education President to Visit Owensboro
Dr. Aaron Thompson, President of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, will visit Owensboro on Monday, March 4 and Tuesday, March 5 to meet with community leadership, Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) faculty, staff, students,an...
Feb 27, 2019, 8:00am EST
8,000 Mile Journey Leads December Lay to Healthcare Career
It is more than 8,000 miles from the country of Burma to Owensboro, Kentucky and that distance does not include a middle school pit stop in Texas. But despite the incredible distance traveled, and the language and cultural barriers he faced, December L...
Feb 20, 2019, 3:49pm EST