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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.

(COTC) and The Ohio State University at Newark at the end of 2024. Taylor spent 22 of those years in the ...

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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 looking for an alternative when she stumbled upon COTC, whose small campus and two-year degree ...

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

Business Management Technology Young graduated in 1990. A few years later, one of his former ...

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Jeff, Julie and Collin Pillow

their own college. While their daughter went to a four-year institution, Collin decided COTC was the ...

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Jennifer McDonald and Brittany Misner
Jennifer McDonald and Brittany Misner stand next to each other outside local businesses  in downtown Newark.

when she was joined by Misner, who had several years of experience in business and human resources ...

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

technologist to educator has been seamless, and she continues to excel each year in this role,” said Whitney ...

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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.

reason we’ve been married for 63 years. They saw the realization of the cost-shared model in real time. ...

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Julio Valladares
Julio Valladres' headshot.

Public Schools for 15 years. But when an opening at Newark City Schools (NCS) became available in 2017, ...

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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.

After a brief time at a four-year university, Feick learned about COTC’s electrical transmission and ...

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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.

multicultural affairs at COTC and The Ohio State University at Newark earned her this year’s Transitions Alumni ...

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Braden Patchett
Alumni Braden Patchett

2015, the then 37-year-old decided to act. What Patchett gained, however, was more than he ever dreamed. ...

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A Career to Build
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necessary to safely practice radiology.   ”I never expected the level of professional growth in a two-year ...

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Dual-Enrollment Led COTC Engineering Technology Student Sydney Palur to Early Start in Dream Career
young Caucasian woman with blonde hair and blue eyes in red shirt, black pants, and black sandals poses for a picture

two-year college students and provide opportunities for individual growth and development through honors, ...

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

classes at COTC in 2007 when he was 25 years old. At the time, he didn’t know anything about computers or ...

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

of the Year in 1986 and, in 2010, named the Knox County Business Woman of the Year. She also went on ...

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

Her dedication paid off, and now she’s getting paid. The 18-year-old earned a COTC degree — plus six ...

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Kori Caughenbaugh

opportunity to watch my younger brother, Colt, finish out his senior year of high school baseball,” said ...

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Archana Rajendran
Archana Rajendran standing next to ultrasound machine.

States 22 years ago because of her husband’s job. She is quiet and reserved and has a thick accent. So, ...

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Randy Thorp, Mark Weiner and Nick Shuster
Two men in police uniforms and one man in a suit stand inside a courtroom of the Licking County Courthouse.

Medal of Valor; Police Officer of the Year; and the COTC Outstanding Alumni Award, among others. In ...

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Julio Valladares
Alumni Julio Valladares receiving Community Service Award

described how Valladares returned to Newark in 1982, one year after participating in the world series, to ...

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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.

(NCLEX-RN) to become registered nurses (RNs). Practical Nursing One-Year Certificate Upon completion, ...

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

associate degree in nursing technology two years later. After a full decade in the National Guard, she ...

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Angela Simmons

two years and quickly found employment. She worked at Mount Carmel East in the emergency room and then ...

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The Right Thing
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than 20 years as a physical plant supervisor at Mortellaro’s McDonald’s, but the two were also close ...

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

Klinkert says. Fast forward four years later, Klinkert was offered the opportunity to rent rooms from ...

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

Services (JFS) for over 20 years, working her way up through the agency to her current role as director. ...

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

just before her 10th birthday and returned to Ohio a few years later. The family of seven settled in ...

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