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For the second consecutive year, Piedmont Technical College (PTC) employees donated a record-breaking amount to support students. This year, 160 faculty and staff members pledged to donate $35,500, exceeding the $33,000 goal for the Employee Giving Campaign. The total also topped last year’s record-breaking $28,000 in donations. “Thanks to the generosity of the PTC family, we successfully...

Greg Potts enjoys finding solutions to unexpected challenges. “I like not necessarily knowing what I am going to do every day,” said Potts, director of IT Applications at Piedmont Technical College (PTC). “You come in with a plan, and sometimes that plan changes.” Although he typically works behind the scenes, Potts’ technical expertise and collaborative leadership skills have helped position the...

Piedmont Technical College (PTC) will hold its Corporate Cup Golf Tournament on Monday, Sept. 14, at Olde Eight. The tournament will be followed by a celebration of the college’s 60th anniversary. Since its inception in 1993, the PTC golf tournament has become one of the college’s premier events. Renamed the Corporate Cup in 2026, the event celebrates PTC’s corporate partners and individual...

In preparation for the return of students next week for the fall semester, more than 230 faculty and staff members at Piedmont Technical College (PTC) gathered Tuesday on the Greenwood Campus for the annual convocation. The event featured a discussion about key issues facing higher education, the kickoff of PTC’s 60th anniversary celebration and the start of an employee-giving fundraising campaign...

Piedmont Technical College students who had outstanding academic accomplishments during the 2026 spring semester have earned inclusion on the President’s List. To be named to the list, students must be full time and earn a term GPA of 4.00. Students will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the college president. President’s List students include: Abbeville County – Alexis T. Anderson...

Piedmont Technical College (PTC) recently dedicated a welding lab in memory of alumnus Austin “Grey” Hamlett. A large sign bearing Hamlett’s initials that reads “Live Like Grey” now adorns the welding lab’s wall in the William H. "Billy" O'Dell Upstate Center for Manufacturing Excellence on PTC’s Greenwood Campus. Hamlett died in July 2022 from injuries that he suffered in a motor-vehicle accident...

Piedmont Technical College recently celebrated a milestone in the expansion of the Family Life and Conference Center, which is part of a flurry of construction taking place on the college’s Greenwood Campus and elsewhere. PTC President Dr. Hope E. Rivers joined staff members, students and community leaders in signing a steel beam that completed the framework for the expanded Family Life and...

Sym Singh, director of state government affairs at Scout Motors, offered wise advice to Piedmont Technical College graduates during two commencement ceremonies on May 12 in Lander University’s Finis Horne Arena. "This is your life graduates, not somebody else's timeline, not social media's expectations, not the version of success someone else created for you," Singh said. "Your life belongs to you...

Piedmont Technical College (PTC) will host several summer camps where youths can have fun learning new skills. “PTC summer camps give students the opportunity to explore creativity, technology and future career interests in a hands-on environment,” said Catherine Hamilton, Life and Leisure courses program manager with PTC’s Workforce Innovation Division. “We want these camps to be both educational...

Piedmont Technical Piedmont College (PTC) President Dr. Hope E. Rivers congratulated 11 faculty and staff members who graduated Friday from the college’s first leadership academy, an apprenticeship program that is registered with the U.S. Department of Labor and Apprenticeship Carolina. “This program matters,” Rivers said during a ceremony at the James C. Self Conference Center on the Lex Walters...