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Care (Home Health Care) 51 N 3rd St. Ste 610 Newark, OH 43055 (740) 349-8454 email:   ...

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Becca Saxton
Becca Saxton stands wither her mom on the day of her pinning ceremony at COTC.

physical body.” Those trips into patients’ homes continued no matter where her family lived, which changed ...

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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.

feasibility of the COTC option. “You can still live at home. You can still get an education that’s affordable ...

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Toby Starr
Toby Starr

close to home. “As the public affairs manager here in Ohio…my primary role is to engage with neighbors ...

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Julio Valladares
Julio Valladres' headshot.

of a civil war, Valladares felt a sense of peace and welcome in the home of his host family, who ...

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

my home forever because of the mess and chaos, but I wanted to wait until my kids were in school ...

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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.

she was in my corner at home and also in the classroom,” Fink said. “Being able to have that ...

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A Career to Build
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faculty about the assignment and a desire to be assigned to a smaller facility close to her home. Both Ken ...

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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.

patient so the patient could be clean for her trip home. It seemed like a simple gesture at the time, but ...

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Dual-Enrollment Led COTC Engineering Technology Student Sydney Palur to Early Start in Dream Career
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right at home at Salas O’Brien because the company frequently hires COTC graduates, and she is working ...

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

and the county he calls home. He spent 15 years at Newark’s Midland Theatre, where he implemented ...

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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.

musicians to being a home for young artists who wish to improve their crafts, he and his fellow board ...

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The Right Thing
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Mike Johnson had a motto: Always do the right thing because it’s the right thing to do. Perhaps that is why all of his children pursued careers protecting and caring for others. And they all began at COTC. ...

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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.

When Melody Bolin, LSW, works with her clients, she knows how hard change can be.  ...

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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.

After 28 years of dedicated service, Vorley Taylor retired from Central Ohio Technical College (COTC) and The Ohio State University at Newark at the end of 2024. Taylor spent the past 22 years in the Office of Student Life, most recently as program manage ...

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Angela Simmons

close to home, COTC allowed me to raise two kids, be a single mom, work full time and go to school full ...

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

chose COTC for college because it was close to home. However, he now knows that the small, quaint ...

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Bryanna Stigger
Brianna Stigger in Ohio Union

what career to pursue or what college to attend. COTC was close to home and affordable, so it was ...

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Lacey McCombs
Lacey McCombs stands in front of her storefront in Coshocton.

concluded her tenure in 2011. McCombs’ career as a registered nurse started in home health. Then she ...

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Kori Caughenbaugh

saw how beautiful COTC’s Newark campus was and how close to home it was as well. It also gave me the ...

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

— COTC had exactly what she needed. “I would pass [COTC’s Pataskala campus] all the time going home, and ...

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Julio Valladares
Alumni Julio Valladares receiving Community Service Award

Ruth World Series. Now he calls Newark home and is doing his part to give back to the town that gave ...

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