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Impact Report

serve. It’s a celebration of impact — one story at a time. No ...

Overview - 10/20/2025 - 10:08am

Impact Report

serve. It’s a celebration of impact — one story at a time. No ...

Post - 11/12/2025 - 7:26am

Impact Report
Four students gather around the COTC mascot, TC the cat, on a bridge at the Newark campus.

serve. It’s a celebration of impact — one story at a time. read more No ...

Post - 12/15/2025 - 1:56pm

2025 Impact Report
COTC President John M. Berry with COTC mascot TC the cat make "thumbs up" gestures outside of Louella Hodges Reese Hall on the COTC Newark campus.

heights. It’s one thing to share these stories. It’s another to have lived them. I’m hopeful that you will ...

Overview - 10/20/2025 - 10:18am

A Seemingly Impossible Path
COTC alumna Jessica Kinser stands wearing scrubs in front of a medical building for OhioHealth where she works.

has kept the story — and Kinser — alive. Where you get your education matters. COTC saved my life. Now ...

Post - 10/20/2025 - 10:26am

One Book, One Community
A book lies open with it's pages fanned amongst stacks of books.

Melissa Warner Bow endowed fund. Youth Edition — 2026 Book selection: Frizzy Discover the story of Frizzy ...

Post - 11/21/2025 - 9:13am

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

Upon returning to civilian life — at that point a trained combat lifesaver — McCombs chose to pursue a nursing career. She enrolled at COTC’s Coshocton campus because she “loved the idea of staying local. Plus, the classes were smaller and more personable ...

Post - 11/12/2025 - 1:19pm

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

Sonja Darsee, both a first-generation college student and a first-generation Hungarian American, used to work in data entry. “I just felt like it was mundane, doing the same thing over and over,” she said. “I just wanted to be in a field that felt more re ...

Student Spotlight - 02/11/2025 - 11:23am

COTC, Ohio State Newark Host Community Intercultural Relations Conference
Opening speaker Sara Abou Rashed stands at a podium speaking to a room of conference attendees.

relationships. Sara Abou Rashed, an Arab American poet, storyteller and public speaker, shared her personal story ...

News - 04/17/2025 - 10:09am

Paving His Own Way
James Golden stands along a country road with cornfield behind him.

mater. To him, though, he’s just one of many people and stories that have become legendary thanks to ...

Post - 10/20/2025 - 1:48pm

Donors and student award recipients recognized
Portrait of Melissa Molzan holding their award certificate.

stories of students working tirelessly to create better lives for themselves and their families, ...

News - 04/25/2025 - 10:09am

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

Sophia Tosi was a distance runner until she decided to focus on sprinting through her education. As a high school senior, four years into the College Credit Plus (CCP) program, she discontinued extracurriculars to finish her associate degree in business m ...

Post - 10/08/2025 - 8:26am