Prosperity resident Troy Lawson, an industrial electronics technology and mechatronics technology student at Â鶹ÊÓƵ, has been awarded $2000 from The Grainger Tools for Tomorrow Scholarship Program. Each year, Grainger works with the American Association of Community Colleges to offer 250 scholarships of $2,000 each at 125 community colleges in the United States.
Although the general public is more familiar with doctors and nurses, anyone who’s had a serious hospital visit or surgery has probably had contact with a respiratory therapist at some point.
Clay Sprouse, pharmacy technology program director at Â鶹ÊÓƵ, has been named the 2016 Â鶹ÊÓƵ Visionary of the Year award for faculty and will be recognized as a 2016 National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) Excellence Award Recipient.
Recent graduates of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s associate degree nursing program at the Lex Walters-Greenwood campus were recognized in a pinning ceremony in December.
Recent graduates of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s practical nursing program at the Laurens County Higher Education Center were recognized in a pinning ceremony in December.
Benefactors and community leaders joined together at Â鶹ÊÓƵ recently to celebrate the successes of the past year with the annual benefactors’ event.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ will be holding fall commencement exercises on Tuesday, December 15. Commencement exercises will begin at 5 p.m. in the James Medford Family Event Center at Â鶹ÊÓƵ in Greenwood. Due to limited seating, tickets will be required for all guests attending the graduation ceremony. Each ticketholder, including children, will be entitled to one seat.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ, Edgefield Adult Education and Strom Thurmond Career Center (STCC) have received nearly $150,000 as part of a Federal Incentive Grant awarded to the SC Department of Employment and Workforce, SC Department of Education and the SC Technical College System. The initiative, called Learn 2 Earn, is a comprehensive, coordinated effort to meet basic skills needs of adults and create a pipeline of skilled youth and adult workers for the health care and advanced manufacturing and includes a soft skills component.
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