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Source: Technical College System of Georgia ATLANTA, GA--The Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) is pleased to announce that Newton County College and Career Academy (NCCA) has been awarded the prestigious title of "College and Career Academy of the Year" for 2023. In addition to naming the College and Career Academy of the Year, TCSG named Syon Schlecht from Empower College and Career Center in Jackson County as the College and Career Academy Student of the Year and Mohawk Industries...

NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- World Education Services (WES) has announced the 14 communities selected to join the sixth cohort of its Skilled Immigrant Integration Program (SIIP). Communities selected for the 2023–2024 SIIP cohort are Austin, Texas; Central Massachusetts; Eugene, Oregon; Metro Atlanta, Georgia (Georgia Piedmont Technical College’s service delivery area includes DeKalb, Newton and Rockdale Counties); South Bend, Indiana; St. Louis, Missouri; and the states...

The Georgia Piedmont Technical College Foundation is proud to announce it has been awarded $10,000 through one of PepsiCo Foundation’s Community Impact Grants. The program is a part of PepsiCo’s efforts to support local communities by providing resources for valuable programming, such as providing hardship assistance to GPTC students. Georgia Piedmont Technical College is one of 100 public charities and organizations across the United States and Canada awarded the Community Impact Grant....

Clarkston, GA September 15, 2023 – The momentum is building for Georgia Piedmont Technical College to educate and train the state’s logistics and transportation workforce. GPTC has been awarded $81,000 in federal grant monies earmarked for students enrolled in the college’s commercial truck driving program. The funds will provide scholarships for tuition and gap funding assistance for students in the credit, adult education and economic development CDL programs. According to the grant...

STONECREST, Ga. - The Georgia Piedmont Technical College history books will be adding August 30, 2023 as a red-letter day as more than 100 people came to celebrate the groundbreaking of the college's future Regional Transportation Training Center in Stonecrest. Representatives from all levels of government joined GPTC staff and faculty, supporters, and students in the ceremonial groundbreaking on Marbut Road. This multi-million-dollar project was primarily funded by federal, state, and local...

Online ranking platform University HQ has identified Georgia Piedmont Technical College as a top performing school in the state when it comes to acquiring associate degrees through online programs. GPTC earned a second-place ranking based on methodologies that include affordability, graduation rates, reputation, retention rate, and average salaries for graduates. Many graduates of GPTC's online programs have been able to secure immediate employment and/or transfer to a four-year school. GPTC...

CLARKSTON, GA -- Community and industry partner Radius Recycling presented the Georgia Piedmont Technical College Foundation with a $15,000 gift with the monies earmarked for the school's future Regional Transportation Training Center (RTTC) in Stonecrest. To extend appreciation for their generosity, a conference room at the future center will be bear the Radius Recyling name. The RTTC is located less than a half a mile from the Radius Recycling operation and, as such, presents a win-win...

NEWTON COUNTY, Ga. — *The Newton County Sheriff’s Office, with its continual partnership with Action Inc. and Georgia Piedmont Technical College, graduated seven inmate residents from the Workforce Development Program on July 21, 2023. The Workforce Development Program is grant-funded and provides inmate residents with on-site training for manufacturing fundamentals, essential employment and life skills, forklift operation and safety, OSHA-10, CPR/First Aid/AED, and Lean Six Sigma –...

Clarkston, GA - Georgia Piedmont Technical College students proved they're at the top of their games by earning first and second place medals at the national SkillsUSA competition held in Atlanta recently. Thirty-one-year-old Maghen Hicks of Monroe, Georgia picked up the first-place gold while 25-year-old Victor Castro-Garibay of Conyers and 52-year-old Subhadra Gupta of Morrow are donning second place silver medals. Hicks earned her hardware in the medical math competition while...

Georgia Piedmont Technical College has been awarded $1.65 million to integrate technology that will help provide a safe learning and working environment for students and staff. The funds are part of Georgia’s $83.5 million in COVID-19 relief funds through the Public Safety and Community Violence Reduction (PSCVRG) Grant Program. A total of 118 agencies/projects have been approved for the funding; Georgia Piedmont is the only college in the Technical College System of Georgia listed on the...

Clarkston, GA – June 8, 2023 – The Dollar General Literacy Foundation recently awarded Georgia Piedmont Technical College (GPTC) a $7500 grant to support adult literacy.  This local grant is a part of the Foundation’s largest, one-day literacy donation of more than $13 million throughout the 47 states in which Dollar General operates to support adult, family and summer literacy programs. “We are so grateful to the Dollar General Literacy Foundation for its generous contribution to...

For the first time since 2019, students graduating from Georgia Piedmont Technical College were able to walk across a real stage and be recognized by a crowd of supporters and loved ones. The college's commencement ceremony was held Saturday, May 20 at 10:00 a.m. at Springfield Baptist Church in Conyers. Georgia Piedmont Technical College reports 625 students qualified for graduation over the last academic year (summer and fall of 2022 and spring of 2023). The college awarded a total of 883...