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

board from 1995 to 2008 and is now the company’s president and CEO, a position he accepted in 2011. “I ...

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

Visitor’s Bureau from 1991 to 2004. In 2004 she became vice president at the Licking County Chamber of ...

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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.

graduation from Utica High School that he wasn’t looking for a traditional, four-year college experience. He ...

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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.

and has a bachelor’s degree in organizational management from Wilberforce University and a master’s ...

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Angela Simmons

children with the job I was doing. So, I needed to get a college degree.” Simmons graduated from COTC after ...

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Jeff, Julie and Collin Pillow

High School. They moved to Newark across from the campus so Julie could attend nursing school while ...

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DeLane King
DeLane King standing in front of police cruiser.

time in the field. “Any given day you may speak with people from any walk of life, and the ability to ...

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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.

steered the chamber toward greatness, most recently chalking up a prestigious five-star award from the ...

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

COTC. She says the content from one of her marketing courses now helps her navigate changes in the ...

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

From workforce development to protective services to public assistance, JFS touches nearly one in four ...

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Kori Caughenbaugh

Caughenbaugh made a choice to stand out from the rest, and it started with COTC. ...

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Archana Rajendran
Archana Rajendran standing next to ultrasound machine.

that everything worked out well for me.” Rajendran graduated from COTC in 2012 and is now an echo ...

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

a Buckeye, earning her bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University. “It probably took 45 minutes by the ...

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Bryanna Stigger
Brianna Stigger in Ohio Union

She loves witnessing their journey from prospect to graduate, and she shares her personal experiences ...

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

and credits his success to his digital media design degree from Central Ohio Technical College ...

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

to earn a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Mount Vernon Nazarene University. Sant ...

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Julio Valladares
Julio Valladres' headshot.

Business Administration in 2000, both from Franklin University. Valladares and his wife, Laura, later moved ...

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Braden Patchett
Alumni Braden Patchett

met with Varo representatives while preparing for an upcoming campus career fair. From that day ...

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Dual-Enrollment Led COTC Engineering Technology Student Sydney Palur to Early Start in Dream Career
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what she now fulfills. Palur plans to graduate from COTC in 2022 with her Associate of Applied Science ...

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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.

Wednesday, March 15, from 10 a.m.–1 p.m. and 4-7 p.m. in the John Gilbert Reese Center at 1209 University ...

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Tina Gibson
Portrait of Tina Gibson in a nurse's cap and cape holding a porcelain lamp.

to service. We release them from their nursing duties. It’s a lot like the military.” The Mid-East ...

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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.

program, Taylor received a state award from the Ohio College Personnel Association and a national award ...

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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.

COTC? Attend a virtual information session on Tuesday, Feb. 28, from 1–2 p.m., where faculty and staff ...

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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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Julio Valladares
Alumni Julio Valladares receiving Community Service Award

and then a Master of Business Administration in 2000, both from Franklin University. The job ...

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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.

Engle later received a letter from the woman which said, “You’ll never know what that meant to me.” ...

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

an instructor in the same COTC program from which she graduated. “Sarah’s shift from a working ...

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A love story of institutions and the people they unite
Portrait of Mary Ellen and Lee St. John outside of a greenhouse.

and anatomy lab. They collaborated from adjacent offices, eventually cutting holes in their adjoining ...

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The Right Thing
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a drastic change for me, but from day one at the academy I loved every minute of it,” Kyle said about ...

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Randy Thorp, Mark Weiner and Nick Shuster
Two men in police uniforms and one man in a suit stand inside a courtroom of the Licking County Courthouse.

a half hour from ending his shift when his radio relayed a report of a man with a gun at the facility ...

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