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ALBANY, GEORGIA – Albany Technical College Head Chef and Chair of the Culinary Arts program, Todd White, was recently named as a 2018 Georgia Grown Executive Chef. The honor was created by the Georgia Department of Agriculture, in partnership with the Georgia Restaurant Association, to promote and foster relationships between chefs and farmers. A native of Albany, Georgia, Todd White comes from a long line of farmers with nearly 20 years of experience in the culinary business. After...

ALBANY, GEORGIA – Today, the Albany Tech Foundation was presented with a check for $2,500 from the Georgia Power Foundation, Inc. to help fund equipment to expand the college’s STEM program labs. Albany Technical College (ATC) provides technical education and workforce development training in several STEM disciplines, including Civil Engineering, Electromechanical Engineering, and Telecommunications Engineering Technology. These programs lead to an Associate of Applied Science (AAS)...

ALBANY, GEORGIA – Albany Technical College (ATC) will host a High School Partners breakfast on Thursday, January 25, 2018, beginning at 7:30 a.m. in the Kirkland Conference Center on campus. The purpose of the event is to educate high school counselors within Albany Tech’s Service Delivery Area (SDA) of dual enrollment and other academic offerings at the college. Following a welcome from Dr. Tanjula Petty, Vice President for Academic Affairs at ATC, the purpose of the event and a...

ALBANY, GEORGIA – Today at Albany Rotary’s weekly meeting, a panel formed by the Albany Area Chamber of Commerce, named Albany Tech’s 2018 Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) winner. Julianna Matthews, Carpentry student at Albany Tech, will represent Albany Technical College for 2018 as the GOAL Student of the Year. Albany Tech’s nominees for GOAL included: Robert Clements (Business Logistics Management); Johnnie Hunter (Business Technology); Jennifer John (Dental...

UPDATE The Albany Technical College campus will resume normal operations on Thursday, January 19, 2018.    PREVIOUSLY Due to the impending weather conditions, ATC has made the decision to delay opening ATC until 10am tomorrow (Jan 17th, 2018) morning. We will reassess conditions early in the morning and notify you of any updates. Please stay tuned to our website, ATC Facebook page and the local media for updates.

Albany, Georgia – Chef Airis Johnson, a nationally recognized chef and food blogger, and Chopped Food Network winner, will visit with Culinary Arts students and Program Chair and Chef Todd White on Thursday, January 11, 2017, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Culinary Arts kitchen in the Logistics Education Center on the Albany Tech campus. Johnson will be arriving in Albany today to visit several locations throughout southwest Georgia to promote healthy eating. The purpose of the...

January 5, 2017 - Albany, Georgia - Tracy Wallace, Director of Continuing Education at Albany Technical College, recently received a promotion to Dean of Continuing Education and Off Campus Programs in the college’s Center for Business Solutions. Her new duties began on January 1, 2018. Wallace came to Albany Tech in March of 2016 after serving as the Director of Marketing and Resource Development for the Albany Area YMCA. With over 24 years of experience in management, strategic...

Albany, Georgia – Albany Technical College (ATC) recently appointed three new faculty program chairs to head up academic programs. Dr. Angela Leverett for Health Information Technology program; Edrian Mallory for Drafting Technology; and Lisa Stephens for Radiologic Technology. Dr. Angela Leverett Health Information Technology Chair Prior to joining ATC, Dr. Angela Leverett has served as the Executive Director of the Web Bachelor of Science in Information Technology program at...

2018 List of “Better for Veterans” Organizations Identified Across the Country Pittsburgh – With a mission of making life better for veterans and their spouses by setting the standard for higher education institutions to provide positive opportunities, Victory Media, has released the 2018 Military Friendly Schools list. Albany Technical College in Albany, Georgia, was named at the Bronze level. Institutions earning the Military Friendly® School designation were evaluated using both...

ALBANY, GEORGIA - Albany Technical College’s Adult Education program has chosen the 2018 delegate for Albany Technical College for the Exceptional Adult Georgian in Literacy Education (EAGLE) competition. Damario Taylor will serve as this coming year’s delegate. A native of Albany, Georgia, Damario Taylor began his journey at Albany Tech in June of this year, earning his GED® in August. He is currently enrolled in Albany Tech’s Industrial Operations Technician technical...

The Rick Perkins Award for Excellence in Technical Instruction honors technical education’s most outstanding instructors. The award has been an ongoing statewide event since 1991 and is designed to recognize and honor technical college instructors who make significant contributions to technical education through innovation and leadership in their fields. The recipient of this distinguished award is recognized as Georgia’s Technical College System’s Instructor of the Year....

Harry Wilson, Human Resources and Environmental Safety Manager for American Proteins, Inc., recently presented Dr. Anthony Parker, President of Albany Tech, with a check for the Foundation’s scholarship funds in the amount of $4,000. This is the twelfth year in a row American Proteins has given the donation to the Albany Tech Foundation. Forsyth County business and civic leader, Tommy Bagwell and his wife, Chantal, established the $500,000 Bagwell Family Scholarship Endowment to provide...