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SRTC Foundation Awards over $37,000 in Scholarships for Fall Semester 2018

For Fall Semester 2018, which begins on August 21st, the Southern Regional Technical College (SRTC) Foundation awarded 56 Scholarships totaling over $37,000 to SRTC students. These funds assist local students with education related costs such as tuition, fees, clinical scrubs, dissection kits, books, and much more. “The SRTC Foundation is proud to offer so many scholarships each semester. Scholarships provide financial support to students who need financial assistance as they...

Two generations of women graduate together, and provide inspiration for the next generation.

“When I go to college, I am going to be a nurse,” said Rachel, an 11-year-old pixie of a girl with corn-silk hair and a bright, airy voice. She piped up from the corner of the boardroom, where she had been playing quietly with her little brother. Her interjection into the conversation could not have been more perfectly timed. She was visiting Southern Regional Technical College with her mother, Marlana Bays, and her grandmother, Lynn McCollister, who had recently graduated together from...

Veteran Gets His Hands on Success at SRTC

“I piddled around and fell in love with this,” Josh McDuffie said as he stands in the brightly lit electrical systems classroom. Fully stocked with coils of cables, walls of wiring projects in progress, and bins of assorted tools and fittings, the classroom looks like a cross between a construction site and aisle five of The Home Depot. While he is now perfectly at home in that environment, Josh’s path to the Electrical Construction and Maintenance program at Southern Regional...

Former College President Makes Substantial Donation to SRTC Foundation

Pictured (Left to Right): Dr. Craig Wentworth, SRTC President; Dr. Freida Hill-Harrell, Former Southwest Georgia Technical College President; Mr. Bill Harrell; Mr. Tommy Hill, SRTC Foundation Board of Trustees Chairman; and Mrs. Amy Maison, Vice President for Institutional Advancement and Marketing. The Southern Regional Technical College (SRTC) Foundation recently received a generous donation from Dr. Hill-Harrell and Mr. Harrell. On Friday, March 24, 2017, Dr. Freida Hill-Harrell...

TCSG State Board Approves Southern Regional Technical College as name for merging Colleges

On October 2nd, the state board that oversees the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) voted to approve Southern Regional Technical College as the new college name, once the merger of Moultrie Technical College (MTC) and Southwest Georgia Technical College (SWGTC) is finalized on July 1, 2015. A naming committee was formed by the Board of Directors of SWGTC and MTC and charged with submitting a joint recommendation to the TCSG State Board from suggestions made by the faculty and...