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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
OCTC Hosting "Come As You Are" Event
OCTC's Counseling Center will host an information session for students called "Come As You Are" on Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 11 a.m. The session will feature local speakers in recovery from food addiction and is held in conjunction with National E...
Feb 13, 2019, 8:00am EST
OCTC Radiography Program Hosting Pre-Admission Conferences
Owensboro Community & Technical College has an excellent, two-year, Associate in Applied Science degree Radiography program. This selective admissions program is hosting preadmission conferences for the Fall 2019 semester at 10 a.m. on both Friday, ...
Feb 12, 2019, 11:11am EST
OCTC Hosting GO FAME Student Info Sessions
OCTC's Workforce Solutions will host an information session for students interested in learning more about the GO FAME program. The session will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 19, in the Advanced Technology Center in ATC 107, on OCTC's Main ...
Feb 11, 2019, 8:00am EST
OCTC Hosting Statewide Computing Conference
The Kentucky Community College (KYCC) Women In Computing (WiC) Conference will be held at OCTC March 22- 23, 2019. The conference serves as an extension of the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Celebrations of Women in Computing. ACM-W's inte...
Feb 7, 2019, 8:00am EST
OCTC Hosting Statewide Computing Conference
The Kentucky Community College (KYCC) Women In Computing (WiC) Conference will be held at OCTC March 22- 23, 2019. The conference serves as an extension of the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Celebrations of Women in Computing. ACM-W's inte...
Feb 5, 2019, 10:57am EST
OCTC's TechX Hosting Student Info Sessions
Need a new career path, or a boost to get that promotion? Owensboro Community & Technical College'sTech X initiative is a multi-craft technologist program offering hands-on training in a real-world, industrial environment. Learn more about this inno...
Feb 1, 2019, 5:52pm EST
AMTEC Launches New Industry Credentials and Assessment
The Advanced Manufacturing Technical Education Collaborative (AMTEC) will launch two new industry credentials and an updated version of its certification assessment on February 1, 2019. AMTEC's newest version of its industry-validated General Maint...
Jan 31, 2019, 2:31pm EST
Ash Selected to Present at National Conference
OCTC's Fulbright Scholar and Associate Professor of History, Dr. Angela Ash, has been selected to present her work, Joint-Admissions Explored: Determining the Existence of a Transfer-Affirming Culture Between Rural Southern Community College and Region...
Jan 28, 2019, 8:00am EST
OCTC Common Read Selection for Spring 2019
The Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) Common Reading selection for the spring 2019 semester will be, 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 publ...
Jan 17, 2019, 10:20am EST