COTC COLLEGE OVERVIEW

Central Ohio Technical College is a state-assisted post-secondary institution of higher education offering associate degree and certificate programs in business, health, engineering, and public service technologies. 

The College is located in Newark about 40 miles east of Columbus.  The College shares the 177-acre Newark Campus and some personnel and services with The Ohio State University at Newark (OSUN).  Classes are also offered at Mount Vernon and Coshocton locations.

COTC and OSUN have separate governing boards of trustees, faculties, and programs.  COTC and OSUN students share in social, sporting, and cultural activities and are considered one student body.  Opportunities exist for students to take classes from the other institution through a liberal cross-registration policy.

Over 2500 students are enrolled at COTC each year.  The College has been accredited by the North Central Association of College since 1975.  More than 4,000 students have been graduated.

The COTC service district includes Licking, Knox and Coshocton Counties, and area of 1,778 square miles and home for more than 221,000 people.  About 90 percent of the students come from this district.  They average 30 years of age and about 60 percent are part-time students.

The faculty and administrators are continually evaluating the technical and general education curricula to ensure that the College is meeting the employment needs of Central Ohio.  Technology advisory committees, composed of professionals, labor representatives, and others play an important role in this process.

Faculty members are carefully selected for their academic credentials as well as for their actual work experience in technical fields.

COTC's technology programs are organized within four academic areas:  Public Service Technologies, Business Technologies, Engineering Technologies and Health Technologies.  Each technology program at COTC includes general education courses the College regards as essential for the education of every student.  These studies allow a student to acquire the necessary abilities to obtain and keep a job, to listen and read with understanding, to speak and write clearly, to think soundly and to employ mathematics quickly and accurately.

Most COTC graduates immediately enter the job market.  Typically, nearly 90 percent of graduating classes are employed full-time within six months of leaving the College.  Most of them are working in the technology they studied at COTC.

Some graduates choose to continue their work at another college or university with minimal loss of time and credit.  The College has articulation agreements with a number of four-year institutions in Ohio.

HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE

Central Ohio Technical College was chartered by the Ohio Board of Regents in 1971, subject to the directives and constraints set forth by the Ohio General Assembly and the Ohio Board of Regents.

The College was created in direct response to a demonstrated need for quality college-level technical education in Licking County.  The service area was expanded to include Coshocton and Knox Counties in the spring of 1980.  In 1986, COTC established full-time offices in both counties to offer off-campus courses.  In the Winter Quarter of 2003, COTC opened the Coshocton Educational Center in Coshocton to expand the course offerings in that county.  Currently the Practical Nursing One-Year Certificate may be completed at the Coshocton site.  General Education, Business Technologies, and Public Service Technologies courses are offered there as well.

FACILITIES

There are five major buildings on the Newark Campus.  Founders Hall contains administrative offices, an auditorium and the Newark Campus Library.  The Library contains over 40,0000 volumes and subscribes to over 450 periodicals.  It provides access to many libraries electronically via OhioLink.

Hopewell Hall provides a dining facility and student lounges and houses the Office of Student Support Services, the Learning Assistance Center, the COTC Academic Program Offices, the Career Services Office, the Public Safety Office, the COTC Admissions Office, the COTC Student Records Office, the COTC Advising Office, the Office of Financial Aid, the Office of Fees and Deposits, and the Newark Campus Bookstore.

Adena Hall has a gymnasium with a seating capacity of 1300, athletic dressing rooms, and an exercise facility with free weights and other equipment.

LeFevre Hall houses the Campus Art Gallary and the Black Box Theatre.

The Reese Center, which opened in the Autumn of 2003, houses the campus conference center, a five hundred fifty seat auditorium, eleven multi-media classrooms, a forty station open computer lab, faculty offices, student leadership office, and a cyber cafe/cyber lounge for faculty, staff, and students

Classrooms and laboratories, located in all four buildings, are modern and fully equipped.  The laboratories are designed for learning comfort and are consistent with the working environment students may encounter upon graduation.

Outdoor facilities include lighted and paved parking areas for over 1750 cars as well as athletic fields for various sports for student use.

Next to the Adena Hall is the Newark Campus Child Development Center, a seven room complex serving the children of students, staff and community residents.  The Center also serves as a teaching/practicum facility for the COTC Early Childhood Development Technology program.

COTC cooperates with central Ohio businesses, industries, health and public service agencies to provide excellent clinical and practicum facilities and experiences for students.

The Newark Campus provides on-campus housing to limit the stress of starting college and to create a link between the academic, social and recreational lives of our students. It is easy to make yourself at home in our residence halls, which offer an independent style of living just steps from class. The hall provides fully furnished kitchens, living rooms, dining rooms, and bedrooms. Each building is air conditioned and comes complete with laundry facilities.

Housing contracts are processed according to the student's date of admission to the university/college. Students are required to return a contract, space reservation fee, and a non-refundable housing filing fee within three weeks of receipt. Each student signs a separate contract. Room assignments are made in mid-August for Autumn Quarter. Personal preferences are honored as availability allows. Students receive room and roommate information along with a billing statement in mid to late August.   For additional information please contact: the Housing Office in the Office of Student Affairs at (740) 366-9430.  

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