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Toby Starr
Toby Starr

connecting with professors who helped me grow into an adult.” Those interactions with professors proved ...

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Archana Rajendran
Archana Rajendran standing next to ultrasound machine.

up for me. They got me the scan time I needed working with Loretta Damron and Maryellen Orsinelli, ...

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A Career to Build
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confidence. This program pushed me out of my comfort zone and made me realize what great things were out there ...

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

career. There was a lot of hands-on training. The professors did a great job of preparing me for my future ...

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

better paying positions with career opportunities. This meant a better quality of life for me and my ...

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

family did, so I had a lot of questions when I started. The people at the front guided me every step of ...

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Tim Blunn
Group of radiologists at Grant Medical Center

injuries we deal with fit me and my personality to a T,” he said. Blunn did a clinical rotation at Grant ...

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

said. “It led me to a nursing job that I love, which led to this business idea. Combined with what ...

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

position to follow her passions. “COTC trained me very, very well,” Saxton said. “I was exposed to a lot in ...

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

opportunity for me,” said Ghiloni. “I was so excited to take the position.” Ghiloni now serves on the COTC ...

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

she realized her true passion was nursing. “During clinicals, they kept telling me I was doing too ...

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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 was a good stepping stone for me when I went on to my bachelor’s degree,” she said, adding that ...

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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.

like to learn,” said Fink. But her mom? “She was definitely a little bit harder on me. I’d ask her ...

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

Ohio, I’m very proud of that fact. I just appreciate what COTC has done for me.” ...

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Bryanna Stigger
Brianna Stigger in Ohio Union

outside of the classroom. COTC’s values of honor, integrity and excellence remain within me today.” ...

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

helped propel me where I’m going.” Now that Tosi’s off the starting block, she’s striding easily into the ...

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

I was like, ‘Let me just go online and see what that’s all about,’” recalled Prince, who had worked in ...

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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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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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