The Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College Associate Degree Nursing program held a virtual pinning ceremony for its traditional and transition ADN Class of 2020 on Monday, June 1. During the ceremony, 36 registered nursing graduates were pinned by loved ones via Zoom. Keynote speaker was Pat Macaruso, retiring ADN program coordinator and ...
Two Calhoun County High School graduating seniors have been honored by the South Carolina Department of Education’s Office of Career and Technical Education. Sanaa Haynes and Quinton Dantzler are this year’s Lower Savannah Region Technology Champion of the Year and Work-Based Learning Student of the Year, respectively. Receiving regional honors ...
Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College is taking extra precautions to make sure its students, faculty and staff are safe when summer and fall classes resume on campus. Summer courses – which begin Monday, June 1 – will be held online until July 6, at which time classes requiring lab hours will meet ...
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 ...
