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Mother and Daughter Earn Same COTC Degree 20 Years Apart
Lora Smith stands next to Lydia Smith who is holding her COTC diploma after just walking across the stage at COTC's commencement ceremony in December 2022.

divergent education and career paths collided with a fortuitous opportunity: A faculty position in COTC’s ...

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COTC Alumna Reflects on Nursing Career
Sherry Engle stands next to a mannequin in a nursing lab at COTC's Pataskala campus.

acquired at COTC into future nurses. In reflecting on her nursing career, Engle feels satisfaction knowing ...

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Vorley Taylor Recognized for Years of Dedication to COTC and Ohio State Newark
Vorley Taylor stands at a podium speaking at the Legacy and Leadership Dinner in 2023.

Legends of Loyalty 2022 COTC and Ohio State Newark President’s and Dean/Director’s Diversity Award 2022 ...

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COTC Alumna Bolin Inspires Hope Through Change
COTC human services graduate Melody Bolin stands outside of The Main Place where she works as a mental health case manager.

college on her radar. The college’s reputation, convenient location and flexible courses made COTC ...

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Dual-Enrollment Led COTC Engineering Technology Student Sydney Palur to Early Start in Dream Career
young Caucasian woman with blonde hair and blue eyes in red shirt, black pants, and black sandals poses for a picture

student, Sydney Palur is doing what she loves thanks to COTC. After being a dual-enrollment student, ...

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COTC Recognizes Three Alumni with College Awards
Portrait of COTC President John M. Berry, PhD;  alumni Bryanna Stigger; and Jay Barker.

skills I can only assume he began honing at COTC.” Martin also spent many years as a part-time faculty ...

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COTC Alumna Opens Childcare Center
Portrait of Brittany Klinkert and her three children.

schoolwork.” Klinkert initially chose to attend COTC because it was affordable. And while a student, she loved ...

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Billi Gross and Matayah Berry
Portrait of Billi Gross and Matayah Berry at COTC's Coshocton campus.

me.” Billi also received her associate degree in nursing from COTC. She’s currently pursuing her ...

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Alumni Spotlight

COTC alumni are engaged, committed leaders who are making a difference in their professions and ...

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Tim Blunn
Group of radiologists at Grant Medical Center

history. “The radiology program at COTC has changed my life in many ways. It helped me realize and achieve ...

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Bryanna Stigger
Brianna Stigger in Ohio Union

of Student Life. COTC was creating an Italian cultural immersion program, a first for the college, ...

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Jennifer McDonald
Jennifer McDonald with foam number one finger at the Licking County Chamber of Commerce office.

trying to attract new business and industry to Licking County, and she knows that COTC is a huge part of ...

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Sheriff Randy Thorp
Sheriff Randy Thorp in uniform holding a blue number one foam finger

worked out, and COTC was a big part of that.” Thorp graduated with a criminal justice degree from COTC in ...

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Chase Ghiloni
Chase Ghiloni stands with arms crosses, smiling in office.

exhausting. So, I thought I would give this digital media design thing at COTC a try.” Ghiloni started taking ...

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Kori Caughenbaugh

the firm. “COTC provided me with the knowledge and training to be able to step right into a career ...

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Jeff, Julie and Collin Pillow

technology at Park National Bank. “I have hired a lot of people at Park National Bank, and COTC is one of my ...

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Braden Feick
Brandon Fienk sits at a desk with his hand on a mouse in front of a wall of monitors.

After a brief time at a four-year university, Feick learned about COTC’s electrical transmission and ...

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Toby Starr
Toby Starr

his home state. “COTC helped me develop a very solid base of communication skills,” says Starr, who ...

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Heather Prince, DNP, APRN-CNP
Portrait of Heather Prince standing outside COTC's Pataskala campus.

of view, and she enrolled at COTC in 2011. “I feel like a lot of people don’t realize what’s ...

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Jennifer Ellis-Brunn
Portrait of Jennifer Ellis Brunn standing in downtown Newark.

Licking County residents, and now Ellis-Brunn has come full circle by collaborating with COTC to bring ...

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Angela Simmons

it not been for COTC. ”I graduated from Heath High School in 1990 and did not go to college right ...

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DeLane King
DeLane King standing in front of police cruiser.

“I chose COTC because of its reputation. The high standards at COTC lead to high job placement and ...

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Julio Valladares
Alumni Julio Valladares receiving Community Service Award

Robert McGaughy, COTC’s first business officer and retired Licking Memorial Hospital administrator, ...

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Braden Patchett
Alumni Braden Patchett

succeed. “My education from COTC has allowed me to reach a better quality of life,” said Patchett with ...

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Timothy Young
Sonja Darsee and Timothy Young stand in front of the Licking Knox Goodwill building.

got started here purely by the instructor and connection I had made at COTC.” No ...

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Vickie Sant
Vickie Sant sands in the COTC Knox campus lobby for a portrait.

“glamping.” She won the COTC Outstanding Alumni Award in 2013. “COTC provided me the opportunity to work and ...

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Sophia Tosi
COTC alumna Sophia Tosi stands outside TrueCore Federal Credit Union where she works.

the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. She worked in COTC’s Gateway Enrollment Center. She even studied ...

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Jennifer McDonald and Brittany Misner
Jennifer McDonald and Brittany Misner stand next to each other outside local businesses  in downtown Newark.

to the community. McDonald was the recipient of the COTC Outstanding Alumni Award in 2017 for her ...

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Alumni Award Winners Honored
Terry Bertiaux holds his Outstanding Alumni Award certificate and glass trophy.

received this year’s Outstanding Alumni Award. His lengthy government career started while he was a COTC ...

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