Dr. Ray Brooks, president of Piedmont Technical College (PTC), has announced plans to retire, effective January 4, 2021. He officially informed the college's Area Commission on Tuesday evening, June 16. He has led the institution since March 2008.
It’s not a trick question. If you could earn college credit while still in high school—tuition-free—would you? Hundreds of Piedmont Technical College’s Dual Enrollment students are doing just that.
While classes go on during the quarantine months at Piedmont Technical College (PTC), some students are taking a moment to correspond with college officials on how it’s going for them. They had high praise for advisors and instructors who kept communication lines open throughout the online transition and beyond.
After staying home for seven years to take care of her two young children full-time, Piedmont Technical College (PTC) student Holly Guida decided that ― as her youngest begins school ― she, too, would re-enter the classroom. “I decided that it was time to further my education and do something for myself,” the Laurens resident said. Because she already had some health-related classes under her belt, she chose to enter PTC’s Patient Care Technician (PCT) Certificate Program, which itself is in a state of constructive transition.
Those pondering a change in career during this time of isolation might want to consider a field that has been relatively unaffected by the pandemic. One of those is real estate. And the Continuing Education Program at Piedmont Technical College (PTC) has just the thing to help aspiring real estate agents get started.
Dorothy Holmes of Greenwood, a student at Piedmont Technical College, is one of 207 Phi Theta Kappa members named a 2020 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholar and will receive a $1,000 scholarship. She is majoring in administrative office technology.
Piedmont Technical College (PTC) Welding Program Director Jim Ladd knows you can’t start a fire without a spark. Not everyone who signs up for welding begins carrying a passionate fire for the profession. Sometimes the best way to approach it is in calculated steps. That’s why PTC this fall is introducing a new Advanced Welding Certificate, which moves students into the workplace sooner so they can practice their craft while contemplating whether to continue to an associate degree.
Piedmont Technical College (PTC) recently honored the achievements of more than 30 conscientious student leaders via a virtual 46th Annual Student Awards and Recognition Program broadcast live over Facebook last month.
Because so much of America gets its legal education from television, the Piedmont Technical College (PTC) Continuing Education Division is partnering with the South Carolina Bar to offer an online course this fall titled Law School for Non-Lawyers.
Several fall-semester industrial technology students at Piedmont Technical College got a whiff of that unmistakable “new-building smell” at the William H. “Billy” O’Dell Upstate Center for Manufacturing Excellence in Greenwood the first week of classes last month. The building is nearly complete (some large-scale equipment is still being installed and a few punch-list items), but its shiny new facilities are open already for welding and machine tool classes.
