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

comforting.” Gibson’s peers and faculty helped ease her educational journey. “I actually thought it was ...

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Jeff, Julie and Collin Pillow

my department, but they advance within Park.” The Pillows left it up to their children to choose ...

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

design, but quickly learned and loved everything about it. Just before he graduated in 2010, Ghiloni and ...

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

abroad in the United Kingdom. All things considered, it was “a pretty straightforward college experience, ...

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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.

ecosystem. It was never ‘us’ and ‘them.’ It was always ‘the Newark campus,’” Mary Ellen said. “This place ...

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Archana Rajendran
Archana Rajendran standing next to ultrasound machine.

It is very important for the patient, and the echo does benefit them. It’s a quick and easy approach. ...

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

even easier to navigate as a young mother. “At the time, she was a baby, so it was very convenient for ...

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

from is doing so well. It’s important to our community, and it’s important to me. It’s a very great ...

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

off. I’ve broken many generational curses, and I’m paving a new path for my little ones.” It’s ...

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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.

interested in IT. We shared the same classes through and through,” he said. “That’s probably been the best ...

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

shadowing opportunities. “It was so fun wearing scrubs and watching Mom do wound care and feeding tubes,” ...

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Bryanna Stigger
Brianna Stigger in Ohio Union

she’ll always treasure. “It was then when I realized how campus administrators positively shaped the ...

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

technical education. It’s great to see him recognized for all his professional achievements and community ...

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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.

even being in class every day,” said Smith. “The small wins are big to them because it ultimately gives ...

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Angela Simmons

Newark before coming to Air Evac. ”COTC gave me the tools to do what I needed to do. It gave me the ...

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Kori Caughenbaugh

that it provides me in comparison to a large architecture firm,” she noted. “I get to do a wide variety ...

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

life status or age stand in the way of going to school — it’s the foundation that got me to where I am ...

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A Career to Build
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Hopewell reassured Weber that the facility was the perfect fit for her and she could handle it. “Mara was ...

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

have maintained that buzz by evolving its merchandise and involving it in relevant causes. They order ...

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

COTC for the jump start that launched her multifaceted career and would recommend it to anyone else ...

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Toby Starr
Toby Starr

invaluable in Starr’s ability to gain the confidence it takes to help him succeed in his career, he says. And ...

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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.

1994. It was a decision that reinforced her field knowledge and equipped her with skills she would later ...

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Julio Valladares
Alumni Julio Valladares receiving Community Service Award

said Valladares. “It feels great to be back in Newark because it is giving me the chance to apply my ...

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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.

a natural choice for Bolin, a mother of four. “It’s very flexible. There are morning, afternoon and evening ...

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

it’s quite another to have the technical ability to back up creative vision with trackable and ...

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Dual-Enrollment Led COTC Engineering Technology Student Sydney Palur to Early Start in Dream Career
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to start at a technical school, thinking that it’d be affordable, and I would get a better education ...

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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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