The OTC Fine Arts Gallery will host the annual Central Ozarks Conference Annual Juried High School Art Exhibition on Friday, April 4. For the last five years, the gallery has been the home of the juried exhibition promoting some of our local and regional high schools’ young emerging artists. Six high schools will be representing…
Three Ozarks Technical Community College students from the turf and landscape program received awards in the 2014 Professional Landcare Network Student Career Days national competition. Isaac Lawson of Norwood and Kyle Knierim of Lockwood placed second in landscape maintenance operations. Knierim and Lawson also received string trimmers valued at $300 as part of their award.…
The fifth-annual OTC Community Day will get off to a running start this year with the first Community Day 5K run to benefit the OTC Foundation Scholarship Fund. The run will take place at 8 a.m. April 26, with the course starting and finishing on the OTC Springfield Campus. Community Day will begin at 9…
Ozarks Public Broadcasting, the Missouri Highway Patrol, Big Cedar Lodge and Great Southern Bank are just a few of the employers who will be at the Ozark Technical Community College Career Fair on April 2 from 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. The event will take place in Lincoln Hall, Room 211. Lincoln Hall is located at the…
Ozarks Technical Community College will honor Jim Anderson, the president of the Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce, with the 2014 Excellence in Business Award on Friday, April 25. The award ceremony will be held from 7:30-9 a.m. at the White River Conference Center, 600 West Sunshine Street in Springfield. “Jim is most deserving of…
Ozarks Technical Community College and Detroit Tool Metal Products in Lebanon are teaming to launch a new certificate program designed to train area workers who are looking for a career with the full-service manufacturer of precision metal stampings, fabricated components and value-added assemblies. With the program, offered through the OTC Center for Workforce Development at…
Anyone interested in becoming a part-time instructor for Ozarks Technical Community College can learn more about teaching opportunities on Saturday, March 22 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Adjunct Faculty Career Fair at the OTC Springfield Campus. OTC is recruiting general education and technical instructors to teach part-time at all five of its locations in…
What do OTC, Instagram and Pandora all have in common? They all have apps that can be downloaded for free in Apples App Store or in Google Play. The new OTC app allows students to connect with the college from a mobile device with optimized functionality. “We noticed an increase in mobile users over the…
Ozarks Technical Community College congratulates Board of Trustees Member Howard Fisk on earning the Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) Pinnacle Award. Fisk was presented with the Pinnacle Award on Thursday, Feb. 20 at the CVBs annual Salute to Travel and Tourism awards. According to the CVB, the honor goes to individuals who have been…
Frank Farmer, a founding member of the Ozarks Technical Community College Board of Trustees, has passed away at the age of 89. Farmer served on the OTC Board of Trustees from 1990 until his retirement in 2007. Mr. Farmer was named a Trustee Emeritus upon his retirement. The OTC Springfield Campus is home to the…
UMB Bank has established the Society of Manufacturing Scholarship at Ozarks Technical Community College, which is available for students pursuing a degree in drafting, machine technology or welding. “We hear that companies need skills labor, and kids are into technology. The hope is that we can connect young peoples enthusiasm for technology to running high-tech…
Students at the OTC Richwood Valley campus, as well as the public, can now enjoy a hearty breakfast or lunch at the new Cafe 101, which is in operation on the Christian County campus. Chick-fil-A sandwiches are the featured product at the cafe, the only location in Christian County to offer the popular products. “We’ve…
George Lamelza, college director of web services at Ozarks Technical Community College, was recognized by the Missouri Community College Association for his innovative website design at a ceremony held in St. Louis in late 2013. Mr. Lamelza and Dr. Hal Higdon, chancellor of Ozarks Technical Community College, received the association’s Technology Innovation Award, which is…
Gabe McLaughlin sees the irony in being picked as the subject for a story about National Career and Technical Education month. About 14 years ago, McLaughlin was a student at Hillcrest High School who took automotive classes at OTC. Today, the 30-year-old has come full circle and is teaching those same classes for OTC…
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The Instructional Technology Council (ITC) has recognized OTC Mathematics Instructor Marylynne Abbott and OTC’s Online Blackboard Support for Excellence in eLearning. ITC is an organization that advances distance education through research and collaboration and by sharing best practices among its member institutions. OTC’s Online Blackboard Support is the 2014 award recipient for Outstanding Technical Support…
Ozarks Technical Community College will host a free FAFSA Frenzy event on Sunday, Feb. 9, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the OTC Springfield Campus, 1001 Chestnut Expressway. The event, which is designed to help prospective college students to file their FAFSA, or Free Application for Federal Student Aid, will be held in the…
With the new year comes a new way of obtaining a high school equivalency degree but it will also cost more. A number of states, including Missouri, have adopted the High School Equivalency (HiSet), also known as the HSE, after a new version of the GED was found to be too expensive for those wanting…
The calendar has turned to 2014 and faculty, staff and students at OTC who are looking to be a little healthier this year can find it in a number of offerings. The OTC Springfield Campus has a fitness center that anyone connected with the College can use. According to Michael Pena, assistant to the vice…
Mark Miller, former veteran Springfield TV news anchor, has been named the new College Director of Communications for Ozarks Technical Community College. Miller replaces Joel Doepker, who became vice president for external relations at East Central Community College in Union, Mo., late last year. “In today’s knowledge-based economy, everyone can benefit from the breadth of…
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – John Clayton, college director of research and strategic planning at Ozarks Technical Community College, has been named chair of the Mid-America Association for Institutional Research (MidAIR). MidAIR is a regional organization of institutional researchers dedicated to improving and disseminating research of concern to institutions of higher education. MidAIR serves Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas,…
J. Howard Fisk, Ozarks Technical Community College Trustee, and Zachary Zweigle, Lead Instructor for World History and World Geography and Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Advancement, Student Affairs and Workforce Development at OTC, were elected to the Missouri Community College Association Board of Directors at the recent MCCA annual convention in St. Louis. He…
The bullying was so bad that Corey Coffman left high school in her junior year. But when she came to OTC to earn her GED, she was awarded free credits to take a class at no cost. She enrolled and was the first in her family to go to college. Now, she is on her…
Her speech was only 233 words long but the message produced many more words of reaction when she was finished. Racheal Hunt, who was a student in OTC’s Middle College several years ago, spoke at a recent College Development program about her time at OTC and how it changed her life. “I found my life…
Dennis and Debbie Peters announced a $7,500 gift to endow the Special Agent Sgt. Joseph M. Peters Memorial Scholarship at today’s Veterans Day ceremony held at the Ozarks Technical Community College. The gift will be added to the contributions already made by the OTC family and community donors for a total endowment of $10,000. The…
