OTC bringing Thai dancers to Gillioz Theater
Troupe to perform to native music.
MSSU and OTC partner to assist businesses with government contracting
Missouri Southern State University and Ozarks Technical Community College are partnering to provide training sessions on doing business with the government. The training, which is specifically designed for small businesses in the Springfield area, will include seminars on how to locate and obtain contracts from local, state and federal government agencies/installations. OTC and MSSU…
OTC Foundation receives lead gift from Carol Jones
The OTC Foundation, the fund-raising arm of Ozarks Technical Community College, received a lead gift from Carol Jones. Ms. Jones, Founder of Carol Jones Realtors, and the recipient of the 2009 OTC Excellence in Business award, has given the money in support of the OTC Foundation’s Student Scholarship Initiative. The gift will create a scholarship…
Fisk donates use of van to help with parking at Ozarks Technical Community College
Ozarks Technical Community College Board of Trustees member J. Howard Fisk, with his wife Jan, have donated the use of a 15-passenger van for use as the College’s parking shuttle during the 2009-10 school year. The van, a 2007 Chevy, will carry students and employees between the Springfield campus and several off-campus overflow parking lots. …
Ozarks Technical Community College announces new dean of Technical Education
Ozarks Technical Community College has named Layton Childress as its new dean of Technical Education. Childress had previously held the position of Director of Area School programs at the College, and has also served as Director of the Career Center, Lebanon Education Center Coordinator, and Instructor in his ten years at OTC. The former dean…
OTC spring enrollment up more than 7 percent
Four-week numbers show more than 10,000 enrolled.
Richwood Valley enrollment up 20 percent in spring
This spring, there are 807 students enrolled.
Waynesville sees increase in spring enrollment
Enrollment up over that in the fall semester.
“Tartuffe’ translator to perform at Gillioz
Performer will also conduct workshops for theater students
Middle College to hold celebration and orientation for fall semester
Ozarks Technical Community College’s Middle College will hold a celebration event and orientation for its 38 incoming students and their families on Monday, April 27, at 6:30 p.m. The event will be held in room 100 of the Information Commons West on the Springfield campus, 1001 E. Chestnut Expressway. The Middle College, developed in partnership…
New partnership forms between Ozarks Technical Community College and Missouri State University
The presidents of Ozarks Technical Community College and Missouri State University will meet Tuesday afternoon to officially sign an articulation agreement between the two institutions’ honors programs. Under the new agreement, students who have met the requirements for Ozarks Technical Community College’s Honors Program will be eligible for acceptance into the Honors College at Missouri…
Ozarks Technical Community College’s honor society brings home awards
Representatives from Ozarks Technical Community College’s chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year colleges, recently returned from the organization’s 91st Annual International Convention with several awards in hand. The College’s chapter was recognized as a Top 25 Chapter overall, having earned the rank of 6th out of more than 1,200 chapters…
Ozarks Technical Community College to plant tree for Earth Day
The English as a Second Language class at Ozarks Technical Community College will hold a short tree-planting ceremony at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 22, in honor of Earth Day. The ceremony will be held on the southwest side of the Springfield campus, near the corner of Chestnut Expressway and Sherman Avenue. Instructor Fran Giglio…
Ozarks Technical Community College to host sexual violence awareness programs on Denim Day
Ozarks Technical Community College will host programs featuring law enforcement, medical and counseling representatives on Thursday, April 23, as a part of the international Denim Day event, designed to educate and raise awareness about rape and sexual assault. The programs will take place at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. in room 100 of the Information…
Ozarks Technical Community College Welding students to hold Community Welding Day
Ozarks Technical Community College will host a Community Welding Day on Saturday, April 18, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the Welding Lab, located on the north side of the Industry Transportation and Technology Center, near the corner of Central Street and National Avenue. Advanced welding students will repair household items brought in by…
Ozarks Technical Community College students and instructor receive state honors
Two students from Ozarks Technical Community College, Lena Culp and Denea Malone, along with Biology Instructor John Fishback, were honored at an event held last month in Jefferson City. Culp and Malone were chosen for the 2009 All-Missouri Academic Team, a program sponsored by the Missouri Community College Association and Phi Theta Kappa, the international…
Ozarks Technical Community College to host Open House
Ozarks Technical Community College will host an Open House on April 25 in the Information Commons Atrium at its Springfield campus, 1001 E. Chestnut Expressway. The event is designed for members of the community to learn more about opportunities provided by the College. Information will also be provided on some of the many resources offered,…
OTC Associate of Science in Nursing program to hold first-ever pinning ceremony
The Associate of Science in Nursing program at Ozarks Technical Community College will hold a pinning ceremony for its 2009 graduates on Wednesday, May 13, at 6 p.m. This year’s event, which will be held at the Gillioz Theatre in downtown Springfield, marks the first-ever graduating class from the new program. The ASN program…
Moore elected president of OTC Foundation Board of Directors
Jim Moore, managing partner of American Products, LLC, has been named the new president of the OTC Foundation Board of Directors. The transition was made official during a meeting of the Board on Friday, May 1. Outgoing president Dr. Marshall Gordon served in the position from 2007-2009. The OTC Foundation works to coordinate regional resources…
First-ever win for Ozarks Technical Community College Automotive students
Two students from the automotive programs at Ozarks Technical Community College has won the annual Ford/AAA AutoSkills Contest, held recently in St. Louis. The students, Ellis Lutz from Central High School in Springfield and Tyler Jemes from Nixa High School, will now represent Missouri at the national competition in Detroit, Michigan, in June. This is…
Ozarks Technical Community College art students to participate in C-Street Jam
Students from Ozarks Technical Community College’s 3-Dimensional Design class will have an original sculptural installation on display at the Urban District Alliance’s C-Street Jam festival Saturday, May 9. The event will take place on Commercial Street in Springfield from 3 – 10 p.m. “It is my class’s goal to create a sculpture installation that utilizes…
Graduation ceremonies to honor 325 GED recipients
Ozarks Technical Community College will honor its GED graduates with two ceremonies on Sunday, May 31, at the Gillioz Theatre in downtown Springfield. The first ceremony will be held at 1 p.m., with the second following at 3:30 p.m. Attorney Rodney E. Loomer will be the keynote speaker. The two events will honor the 325…
Ozarks Technical Community College’s Surgical Technology students win state competition
A team of students from Ozarks Technical Community College’s Surgical Technician program has taken first place at the Missouri Association of Surgical Technologists’ Annual Scrub Bowl. This is the fourth year the College has participated in the competition, which consists of a written examination made up of questions taken from the Surgical Technologist Certification exam. …
Skills USA Students head to national competition
Nearly 100 students from Ozarks Technical Community College participated in the Skills USA state competition, held recently on the campus of Linn State Technical College in Linn, Missouri. Seventeen of those students took first place in their skills contest and will continue on to the national competition, to be held in Kansas City in June.…
Spence to speak at Ozarks Technical Community College commencement ceremony
Dr. Robert H. Spence, president of Evangel University and respected community leader, will present the commencement address at Ozarks Technical Community College’s annual ceremony, to be held at 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 14, at JQH Arena on the Missouri State University campus. “We are honored to have Dr. Spence address our graduates this year,”…