OTC Online will host an open-house event for current and prospective students on Thursday, March 5 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The event will be held at the OTC Springfield Campus in the Information Commons, room 104.
The OTC catchphrase of “Start Here, Go Anywhere” isn’t lost on Andrea Jones. In fact, she took expanded the brand promise to include “and you can back anytime.” Jones, who graduated from OTC and took classes while the college was located at the old North Town Mall, is now back as the college’s only full-time…
Ozarks Technical Community College’s Online Student Affairs team received the 2015 Award for Outstanding Student Services from the Instructional Technology Council. ITC is an affiliated council of the American Association of Community Colleges and represents nearly 400 institutions that offer distance education courses.
Tera Lawless makes no bones about it: Without the state’s A+ program, she would not have attended college. “I would probably still be waiting tables,” she said. But thanks to the popular, state-funded program that helps community college students with education costs, Lawless was able to enroll at OTC, graduate and go on to Missouri…
From stories about the Salem witchcraft trials to the daily life of pioneers to the thoughts of Wild West lawmen, the new edition of “More Yester Yore” has topics to captivate readers for hours. The book is the second produced by Michael Borich’s English 102 class. Last year, the class produced its first book. Proceeds…
OTC English instructor Jennifer Dunkel will receive the Gladys R. Shaw Outstanding Service to Developmental Education Students award from the National Association for Developmental Education (NADE). The competitive national award celebrates her outstanding achievements as a developmental studies educator. Dunkel will accept the award on Feb. 26 at the Hyatt Regency in Greenville, S.C. during the…
Ozarks Technical Community College invites local high school students and their families to OTC 101, an open-house event at the OTC Table Rock Campus on Tuesday, Feb. 17 from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Ozarks Technical Community College will host a free FAFSA Frenzy event on Sunday, Feb. 22 from 1-4 p.m. at its Springfield, Table Rock and Waynesville locations. The event, sponsored by the Missouri Department of Higher Education, is designed to help prospective college students file their FAFSA or Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The event…
Veterans transitioning from military service to civilian life can find the process challenging and attending college just adds to that pressure. More than 1,000 veterans are enrolled at OTC and a new Veterans Lounge has opened on the OTC Springfield Campus, which has been called a “safe haven” for veterans. “The lounge gives veterans a…
OTC Program Director Doug Pursley was selected as a Fellow of the AARC by the American Association for Respiratory Care. The award was established in 1998 to recognize individuals who made a profound and lasting contribution to the profession of respiratory care and the AARC. The 2014 Fellows were formally inducted during the AARC’s 60th…