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Overview - 04/28/2021 - 11:13am

After conducting a thorough study of the needs of the district, the Board of Trustees submitted the Official Plan for the creation of the Central Ohio Technical Institute on January 26, 1971, and received its charter from the Ohio Board of Regents on Febr ...

Post - 10/13/2020 - 2:06pm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Los Angeles Review and Sierra Nevada Review, with one of his stories to be featured in an upcoming ...

Post - 06/03/2024 - 8:13am

To Justin Glass, a first-year student pursuing his associate degree in business management technology, COTC “feels homey.” Glass joined the Marine Corps when he was 20 and served eight years. As his time in the Marines was ending, Glass and his fellow sol ...

Student Spotlight - 06/18/2024 - 6:12am

century by fostering relationships across our communities – and by sharing stories about philanthropy and ...

Overview - 08/25/2020 - 2:16pm

As a part of our commitment to the health and well-being of faculty, staff, students and visitors, all COTC campuses are 100% tobacco-free. Tobacco-Free Policy ... Tobacco-Free COTC Guide to Successful Implementation: his/her side of story. 3. Be respectful and cognizant that this change can be difficult for tobacco users. ...

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design skills in a supervised work experience with Storied Rivals Sports Media, LLC.  “They do sports ...

Student Spotlight - 02/12/2021 - 7:10am

Billi Gross and Matayah Berry, it’s both. The story started when Billi began her educational journey at ...

Student Spotlight - 05/20/2024 - 1:51pm

and embroidery. She also has interests in theater and drama, writing poetry and short stories, and ...

Student Spotlight - 03/15/2024 - 12:03pm

When he moved to the United States from his home country of Ghana, Ben Anyigbavor had a degree in geodetic engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and 10 years of experience in land surveying. In terms of careers, the healthcar ...

Student Spotlight - 02/19/2024 - 7:31am

While she knew she wanted to pursue a career in healthcare, Melanie Gibson hasn’t had a straight path to her dream position. Gibson is a currently pursuing her associate degree in nursing at Central Ohio Technical College (COTC), but it wasn’t her first s ...

Student Spotlight - 04/15/2024 - 7:28am

Just a few years ago, information technology (IT) student Kennard Haynie Jr., known as KJ, would lay his head down at night in his Baltimore, Maryland, home thinking that higher education would always be just a dream for him. After leaving family, friends ...

Student Spotlight - 12/08/2020 - 8:54am

From a young age, Reina Arey wanted to be a nurse. Back then, she was in awe of the nurses who cared for her younger siblings in the NICU. Today, it is the nurses braving the COVID-19 pandemic who continue to inspire her as she pursues a nursing degree at ...

Student Spotlight - 04/08/2021 - 6:53am

Lexi King is a high school senior that recently joined the ranks of COTC alumni. King attended COTC through College Credit Plus (CCP) and graduated with an Associate of Science this month, a few weeks before getting her high school diploma from East Knox ...

Student Spotlight - 05/13/2021 - 6:53am

COVID-19-related life changes caused many to struggle to find balance with their children being at home, but Nicole Wells, mother of five and grandmother of three, found it to be the opportunity she needed to complete the Central Ohio Technical College (C ...

Student Spotlight - 06/16/2021 - 7:12am

Thirteen years after starting a degree at a different college, Central Ohio Technical College (COTC) student Jacob Ward is pursuing an Associate of Applied Science in Digital Media Design Technology to redefine his career. “I like the idea of creating and ...

Student Spotlight - 08/16/2021 - 10:37am

From Africa to Ohio, Central Ohio Technical College student Adiza Okine has found a supportive community that will help her achieve her career goals. After moving to Newark five years ago, she realized that she could pursue a degree in information technol ...

Student Spotlight - 09/16/2021 - 9:14am

In celebration of National Radiologic Technology Week® this November, COTC recognizes the vital work of faculty, students and alumni. Central Ohio Technical College (COTC) radiologic science technology student Samuel Wolf is well on his way to his dream c ...

Student Spotlight - 11/19/2021 - 9:31am

After being diagnosed with the autoimmune disorder alopecia universalis in 2016 and losing her hair to it, Central Ohio Technical College (COTC) student Katherine McCoy thought she had lost herself. “Initially it was devastating for me. I felt as if I had ...

Student Spotlight - 12/21/2021 - 12:46pm

The fall after she graduated from Chillicothe High School, Kristen Eblin started a radiologic sciences degree at a four-year university. About halfway through, she realized that she was in the wrong major at the wrong school. Fortunately, she discovered a ...

Student Spotlight - 02/15/2022 - 7:28am

Perrine is pursuing her associate degree in business, as well as certificates in management and office administration. She’s worked in offices in some capacity for nearly 13 years, and enrolled with 20 credit hours under her belt. ...

Student Spotlight - 07/17/2024 - 7:00am

In recognition of Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month this October, COTC celebrates the impact that the many alumni, current students and faculty of its diagnostic medical sonography technology program have on the lives of their patients. Denise Turner has ...

Student Spotlight - 10/14/2021 - 6:24am

Zenna Stirling’s signature wrestling move was called the dragon. A fire-breather in her own right, she had no choice but to join her high school’s boys team. Doing so set the tone for her current experiences as a woman in STEM, a field with a predominantl ...

Student Spotlight - 04/10/2026 - 10:47am

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

Avery Staten will graduate from high school having never taken a high school class. The last four years, she has effectively been a college student — learning exclusively through College Credit Plus (CCP) courses offered by Central Ohio Technical College ...

News - 03/16/2026 - 1:46pm

Alexis McPeck received the Intel Scholarship for Women in Technology, awarded to only 25 women in Ohio who enroll in an associate degree or one-year certificate program in semiconductor manufacturing. ...

News - 04/15/2024 - 6:40am