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Georgia Piedmont Technical College (GPTC) announced its 28 student nominees and four finalists for the 2020 Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) Dec. 16. The College will narrow the field Jan. 23 when it reveals the school’s one student who will represent GPTC as the GOAL Student of the Year. Georgia Piedmont Tech’s top four finalists are Early Childhood Care and Education program student Erik Brown, Clinical Laboratory Technology program student Heather Edmisten, Paralegal...

GPTC’s Economic Development Division, Newton County Sheriff's Department and Action Inc. met Nov. 13, 2019, to plan the next cohort of the Newton HIRE program to help inmates regain entry into the workforce. Georgia Piedmont Technical College (GPTC) has enhanced its efforts to strengthen the workforce pipeline for its industry partners in Newton County and to provide a re-entry point for local inmates currently incarcerated at the Newton County Jail. GPTC’s Economic Development...

Mark Engelbracht, president and founder of Omni Machine Works, Inc. in Covington, has a vested interest in seeing students in manufacturing-related programs at Georgia Piedmont Technical College (GPTC) get the best training possible, and on the best equipment. He recently donated a five-ton computer numerical control (CNC) machine to the college to do just that. While having highly-trained machinists for his own company is important to Engelbracht, his relationship with GPTC is also an...

Georgia Piedmont Technical College was honored to be recognized as the 2019 Newton County Employer of the Year by The Covington News and its community selection committee. The announcement was made in early March 2019, and GPTC President Holston and other members of the GPTC administration and faculty were on hand to receive the award at the April 25, 2019, Visions Awards reception. The college and its faculty, staff and administration are truly honored to be named the recipient of this...

Congratulations to our 2019 GPTC Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership, or GOAL, Student of the Year Tina-Kay Rhoden and our 2019 Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year Kelli Owen for being among the best of the best in the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG)! Both were named as Top 9 State Finalists for their respective awards out of the 22 technical colleges’ award representatives during the annual TCSG Summit held in Atlanta April 15-17.  

Georgia Piedmont Technical College’s 2019 Rick Perkins/Instructor of the Year Award winner and criminal justice program director, Kelli Owen of McDonough, right, is congratulated at the regional competition March 5 in Gainesville by Lanier Technical College’s Christian Tetzlaff, who was the statewide award winner for the Technical College System of Georgia in 2015. (April 10, 2019) — A tragic and personal loss changed the course of Kelli Owen’s educational and professional...

GPTC Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the GPTC School of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Dale Burgess, explain to WABE radio reporter Martha Dalton how starting at GPTC before transferring to a 4-year college can mean a leg-up for many students. Less student debt, smaller class sizes and student-centered course planning. These are just a few of the benefits GPTC students and administrators say make the difference in starting an educational pathway here and in the Technical College...

Georgia Piedmont Technical College’s 2019 GOAL Student of the Year, Tina-Kay Rhoden of Conyers, left, joins her practical nursing program instructor and GOAL award nominator Denise Beckford at the regional GOAL competition March 5 in Gainesville. (March 13, 2019) — Tina-Kay Rhoden of Conyers may be the fifth member of her family to graduate from Georgia Piedmont Technical College’s (GPTC) practical nursing program, but she is the first in the family to hold the title as the...

Photo: (L to R) Tina-Kay Rhoden – GOAL Winner; Kelli Owen – Rick Perkins Award Winner (DeKalb County, January 24, 2019) - - Tina-Kay Rhoden, an Interdisciplinary Studies student at Georgia Piedmont Technical College from Conyers has been named as the college’s winner of the Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL). The announcement was made at the college’s GOAL recognition event on January 24, 2019 in the DeKalb Campus Conference Center. Rhoden was chosen by a panel of...

(DeKalb County, November 19, 2018) - - Kye Haymore, the paralegal studies program director at Georgia Piedmont Technical College, recently relinquished her role as president of the American Association for Paralegal Education (AAfPE). Haymore was nominated for the president-elect post at the association’s 35th annual conference, which was held in the fall of 2016. In October, she became immediate past president. Debra Geiger, paralegal studies department head at Savannah Technical College,...

(DeKalb County, November 1, 2018) - - Students experiencing financial hardships while pursuing their degree, diploma or technical certificate of credit at Georgia Piedmont Technical College soon will be getting some much-needed relief thanks to The Merancas Foundation, Inc.   That organization recently provided $50,000 to the Georgia Piedmont Technical College Foundation to assist current and future students. Georgia Piedmont’s foundation is a community-based 501 (c) (3) nonprofit...

(DeKalb County, November 1, 2018) - - Two of Georgia Piedmont Technical College’s online programs, which are offered through its School of Business, Computer Information Systems and New Media, have been recognized by Affordable Colleges Online (ACO) as being among the best online programs in the nation. ACO ranked Georgia Piedmont’s online computer programming curriculum in the Top Five in the nation. According to its website, ACO’s objective is “to help students find the...