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The following individuals have been named honor students for the fall 2015 academic term at Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College: President’s List (full-time) Aiken: Rebecca Hickman Allendale: Daniel Johnson Bamberg: Charles Deloach, Jynae Harris-Robinson, Caleb Peterson, Brody Wilson Barnwell: Misty Dyal, Jarrett Grubbs, Bryan Kinard, Jana Schroeder Blackville: Timothy Chavis Branchville: Seth Berry, Chris Conrad, Miranda Nichols Cameron: Catherine ...

Members of the first graduating class of Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College’s Associate Degree Nursing Flex program were pinned during a ceremony Thursday, Dec. 17, on campus in Roquemore Auditorium. Four students have successfully completed the condensed version of the school’s prestigious ADN program designed to help licensed practical nurses transition into ...

It’s time to start planning New Year’s resolutions – why not make attending Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College one of them. OCtech will hold another open house introducing its new Evening College for the Working Adult from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 5. Dozens of working adults attended the first Evening ...

Four Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College agriculture students received $500 scholarships from the Orangeburg Area Cattlemen’s Association on Thursday, Dec. 3, during a dinner meeting at Tri-County Electric Co-op in St. Matthews. This is the fourth year that the group has awarded scholarships to area students studying agriculture. Pictured are, from left, ...

The Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College Foundation has welcomed Dr. Robert F. Sabalis to its board of directors. Sabalis retired as director of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education Surveys and Team Training and LCME assistant secretary for the Association of American Medical Colleges in 2012. He currently serves as LCME assistant ...

The club’s name may have changed, but the winning legacy of Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College’s National Society of Black Engineers Pre-College Initiative Chapter remains the same. The new chapter – comprised of former Orangeburg Consolidated School District Five’s Technology Center NSBE students who are enrolled in OCtech’s Middle College and/or attend ...

Working adults who want to earn a degree, change careers or build their skills have a new way to reach those goals. Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College’s Evening College for the Working Adult will begin offering hybrid courses – incorporating online components with face-to-face class time – in January in several of ...

Early September has been Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College’s time for grants, Vice President for Academic Affairs Donna Elmore says. The college received almost $1 million in academic grants in a week’s time, including its third National Science Foundation grant of $633,000 to support three initiatives, area commissioners learned at their September ...

Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College will receive a grant of nearly $2 million for the construction of a new health science and nursing training facility, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration announced Friday, Sept. 11, 2015. “We are very delighted to receive this grant from the EDA because it allows ...

There’s still time to register for the fall semester at Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College. Choose from general education courses, prepare for your CDL in our truck driver training program, or plan for a career as a patient care technician by earning your credentials as a certified nursing assistant, electrocardiograph technician and ...