Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College will hold its 2020 graduation ceremony Tuesday, Dec. 15, and a special drive-thru diploma pick up for spring graduates Thursday, June 18. The college’s graduation ceremony originally scheduled for May was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “We know this is a special time for our graduates, ...
The Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College Foundation has received a $10,000 gift from Cypress Creek Renewables for student scholarships. From left are OCtech Foundation Chair Donna Matthews, Cypress Creek Renewables Project Developer Ben Manuel and OCtech Foundation Executive Director Faith McCurry. Cypress Creek Renewables developed Palmetto Plains, South Carolina’s largest solar farm, ...
Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College was one of 30 community colleges nationwide vying for a prestigious Bellwether Award at the 26th annual Community College Futures Assembly, held Feb. 2-4 in San Antonio, Texas. Ten finalist colleges were competitively chosen in three categories: Instructional Programs and Services, co-sponsored by the National Council of ...
Three faculty and staff members have been honored as Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College’s Educators of the Year and were recognized during the South Carolina Technical Education Association’s annual conference Feb. 13-15 in Myrtle Beach. Williette Waring Berry, assistant vice president of academic affairs, is the outstanding administrator; Stefanie Gadson Brown, assistant ...
Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College and the Center for Creative Partnerships will host Community Cinema, a social justice film series, this spring. This year’s film series is dedicated to John Hope Franklin, an American historian best known for his work “From Slavery to Freedom,” first published in 1947. In 1995, Franklin was ...
Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College will hold the grand opening for its new Nursing Building at 3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6. The 30,000-square-foot facility features a lecture hall, computer lab, study rooms, skills practice lab, simulation labs with the latest technology, faculty offices and more. Following a program in the lecture hall ...
Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College’s Associate Degree Nursing program has been named a Bellwether Award finalist. Sponsored by the Alamo Colleges District in San Antonio, Texas, Bellwether Awards are part of the Community College Futures Assembly, which recognizes cutting-edge, trendsetting programs-old-old-old-old that other colleges might find worthy of replicating. The awards are ...
The following individuals have been named honor students for the fall 2019 academic term at Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College: President’s List (full-time) Bamberg: Andrew Hoffman Blackville: Sterling Dunbar, Hannah Wise Blythewood: Chelsea Grow Bowman: Tommy Garrick Calhoun Falls: Alayjah Davis Cameron: Timothy Steadman Columbia: Ronjae Golston, Sabrina Slone, John Sutherland, Christopher ...
Local utility companies seeking qualified candidates for their lineman training programs-old-old-old-old are partnering with Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College for a new Lineman Prep program starting this spring. “We believe the line worker program will be a tremendous resource for Orangeburg’s Department of Public Utilities going forward,” said Warren Harley, DPU manager. ...
Six Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College agriculture students received scholarships during the Orangeburg Area Cattlemen’s Association dinner meeting on Thursday, Dec. 12, at the Tri-County Electric Co-op in St. Matthews. Erin Chassereau, Dawson Lucas and Dalton Sandifer received the Orangeburg Area Cattlemen’s Association Scholarship. Brent Bailey and Ashley Walker received the OCtech ...
