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Keynote Speaker: The Honorable Casey Cagle, Lieutenant Governor of Georgia Albany Technical College will hold Spring Commencement Exercises on Thursday, April 30, 2015, at 7pm, at the James H. Gray Civic Center in Albany. A VIP reception preceding the ceremony will be held 6pm to 6:45pm in the Meeting Room at the Civic Center. More than 200 candidates for associate degrees, more than 500 candidates for diplomas, and more than 1,000 candidates for technical certificates of credit are expected...

April 28, 2015- Albany, GA from WALB- Those nursing graduates also held a moment of silence Tuesday night for the five Georgia Southern University nursing students killed in a car crash last week. They were on their way to their final day of clinical's at a Savannah hospital when they were caught up in a pileup on I-16 in Bryan County. "And we know a lot of times we forget different things that they have to go through. The travels they may have to go prior to clinical, so it's very...

 April 28, 2015- Albany, GA- Albany Technical College will hold Health Care Technology programs Capping and Pinning for spring on Wednesday, April 29, 2015, beginning at 12Noon in the Kirkland Conference Center. Keynote speaker for the program will be Elois Edge, Labor and Delivery Staff Nurse for Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Serving as a Labor and Delivery Staff Nurse and Nursing Manager at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital from 1978 to 1997, Elois Edge holds a wealth of experience in the...

April 27, 2015- Albany, GA- Albany Technical College will hold a special Pinning Ceremony commemorating the first graduating class of the Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) program on Tuesday Evening, April 28, 2015, beginning at 6pm in the Kirkland Conference Center. Keynote speaker for the program will be Dr. Dorothy King Garner, former Dean of Healthcare Technology division at Albany Technical College. Dr. Dorothy King Garner retired from Albany Technical College after serving as the...

April 27, 2015- Albany, GA- Albany Technical College will hold Honor's Day for spring on Tuesday, April 28, 2015, beginning at 11am in the Kirkland Conference Center. Keynote speaker for the program will be Kenneth Cutts, District Director in the Office of Congressman Sanford Bishop. A native of Albany, Georgia, Kenneth Cutts is the District Director for Congressman Sanford Bishop in 29 Southwest and Middle Georgia counties. He is in charge of all district operations for the Congressman in...

April 20, 2015 - Albany, GA - Dr. Anthony O. Parker, president of Albany Technical College (ATC), will deliver Central Georgia Technical College’s (CGTC) commencement address Friday, May 8. The ceremony will honor both credit program and GED® graduates. Over 600 graduates are expected to participate. Parker has served as president of ATC since 1995 and was previously the Vice President of Student Services at Aiken Technical College in Aiken, S.C, and Southeastern Technical College in...

April 15, 2015- Albany, GA- Albany Technical College Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) members and advisors attended the State Conference in Atlanta on April 10th and 12th and brought back awards in several events. Criteria for the award is designated for student members who have been loyal and committed members of their local chapter and Georgia PBL. Winners from Albany Tech included Molly Nixon-Loving, PBL Most Outstanding Member; Bettye Bryant, Who's Who in PBL. Each PBL chapter is encouraged to...

April 10, 2015 - ALBANY, GA. — Albany Technical College will hold its annual Titans Athletic Banquet on Friday, April 10, 2015, beginning at 6pm in the Kirkland Conference Center. The event will honor basketball players from the 2014-2015 season. Keynote speaker for the banquet will be Dr. Eric L. Holland, Head Boy’s Basketball Coach at Tift County High School. Born in Miami, Florida and raised in Donalsonville, Georgia, Holland has won ten consecutive region championships. His career...

April 10, 2015 - ALBANY, GA. — Albany Technical College and Albany State University will hold an articulation agreement signing ceremony Monday, April 13, 2015, at 10 a.m., that will make it possible for students to attend both schools and be able to earn a four-year degree in business. The ceremony will be held in the Executive Board Room of Albany Tech’s Logistics Education Center at 1704 South Slappey Boulevard. “The signing of this agreement paves another pathway to four-year...

April 8, 2015- Albany, GA- Almost 50 southwest Georgia employers will participate in the Seventeenth Annual Spring Career Fair at Albany Technical College on Thursday, April 9, 2015, at the Kirkland Conference Center from 9am to 12Noon. The Career Fair is a great opportunity for Albany Tech students to speak with employers and learn about various companies and career opportunities. The public is invited to attend as well. Employers will accept resumes, offer information about employment...

April 6, 2015 - Atlanta, GA - The Titans Alliance, a group of high school students who are dually enrolled in Engineering Technology at Albany Tech, was selected as the recipient of the “Rookie Inspiration Award” at the Peachtree Regional Robotics Competition held at the World Congress Center in Atlanta on March 27th and 28th. This award celebrates a rookie team’s outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering and engineers, both within their school, as well...

Alvin Anderson, Sr., past president of Albany Technical Institute (now Albany Technical College) passed away on March 30th. Anderson served at Albany Tech as President and before that, as Director of General Educational Development (GED®) Programs and Evaluation Assessment, from 1992 to 1994. He was the fourth president of Albany Tech since the college started in 1961. Services will be held on Monday, April 6th, at 11am at Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in Atlanta, Georgia. Anderson is...