Meredith Skaggs

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) is proud to announce that it has been granted reaffirmation for dual and concurrent enrollment programs by the Accreditation Commission of the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP...

The Spring 2023 Owensboro Community & Technical College Student Art Awards and Skylark reception occurred on April 28, 2023. The Skylark is the college's literary magazine featuring written pieces and photos of art created by faculty, staff, and stude...

As the only community college competing in the 2017 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC), Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) earned 27th place in the college division after completing two full rounds of the challenging course and w...

2021 OCTC EXCELLENCE AWARDS Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) annual employee awards program was held April 22, 2022, delayed from November due to COVID restrictions. The Awards of Excellence are the pinnacle awards, chosen from nomin...

Owensboro Community & Technical College's speech and debate team, the TM Rice Debate Society competed in two tournaments on the same weekend, February 25-26, 2022 earning top awards at both events. The Cryptoid Clash Debate Tournament, was hosted by B...

Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) Experiential Learning Center (ELC) sponsors service learning projects. Dr. Meredith Skaggs' COM 181 students participated in a project entitled "The $100 Solution". The task was for the seven teams of st...

Owensboro Community and Technical College announces the return of Oak Island Theatre productions for the upcoming fall 2021 semester. Newly hired instructor, Grae Greer will direct OCTC's Oak Island Theatre. Greer relates, "I have a strong passion fo...

Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) Dr. Meredith Skaggs, communications professor, mentor, coordinator of OCTC's Cornerstone campus ministries, humanities department head, and wife to husband Nick Eskridge, is mother to three rescue dogs a...

Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) employee awards program was held on December 10, 2020 as a virtual event. There are two categories the Awards of Excellence and the Peer Awards. The Awards of Excellence are the pinnacle award, winner...

Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) student Rachel Fulkerson has been selected to participate in the Disney College Program at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. The five- to seven-month paid internship provides students the o...

Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) Cornerstone Campus Ministry, along with the student ministries from Kentucky Wesleyan College and Brescia University, will be holding the Endeavor 2020 Vision workshop on January 25, 2020. The goal of th...

Kentucky was well representation at the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP) Elevating Partnerships Conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 13-15, 2019. Featured in the photo is Amanda Jerome of Daviess County Publ...

We Are Called to Rise, by Laura McBride, is the Fall '19 Common Reading novel. The novel is set in Las Vegas, Nevada and follows four divergent narrators with interwoven plot lines. The characters ...

Owensboro Community & Technical College's Rover Teams success continued this year with Team 2 earning a ninth place finish and Team 1 earning a fourth place honor. With more than 100 teams scheduled to compete, OCTC was once again the only community an...

Owensboro Community & Technical College's Cornerstone Campus Ministry student group is hosting a presentation entitled, The Anatomy and Physiology of the Crucifixion on Wednesday, April 17 at 11 a.m. in the Chandler Conference Center, located in the Ad...

As the only community college competing in the 2017 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge, Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) earned 27th place in the college division after completing two full rounds of the challenging course and was the ...

Owensboro Community & Technical College recognized employees of OCTC for excellence with awards during the annual holiday luncheon held Friday, December 7, 2018. The OCTC Peer Awards are nominated by the employees of the college and the winners sele...

Owensboro Community & Technical College's Rover Team participated in the Owensboro Christmas Parade on Saturday, November 17, using the theme of "Wishing You a Peaceful Christmas on Earth...and Mars!". The team built the float using the actual competi...

As one of two community colleges competing in the 2018 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge, Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) earned 9th place in the college division April 13-14 in Huntsville, Alabama. The OCTC Rover Team completed a r...

Rain did not slow down the 3rd annual Reverse Yard Sale at Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) held Saturday, April 14, 2018. OCTC's Cornerstone Ministry, a student organization, hosts the yard sale benefiting St. Benedict's Homeless Shelt...

Students attended a demonstration by Daviess County KY Search & Rescue teams featuring search and rescue dogs. This event was held on the Main Campus.

Students attended a presentation by OCTC Alum, Bryan Gore and his wife Lichaun, regarding their life and the culture in China.

As the only community college competing in the 2017 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge, Owensboro Community & Technical College earned 27th place in the college division after completing two full rounds of the challenging course. OCTC was the 2nd h...

Shawn Payne, Kaye Brown, Tonya Northenor, Dr. Meredith Skaggs and Susan Swanson will represent Owensboro Community & Technical College at the 37th Annual National FYE (First Year Experience) Conference February 10-13, 2018 in San Antonio, Texas. "It...

Attended a women's panel discussion titled, "Wise Women, Wise Choices, Wise Voices," hosted by the OCTC WISE Committee. Panelists included Candance Brake, President/CEO of the Greater Owensboro Cha...

Attended the workshop sponsored WISE, OCTC Counseling Center & the Daviess County Attorney's Domestic Violence Task Force.

Attended OCTC Common Read event sponsored by the Kentucky Humanities Council, Inc., where Chautauqua player Kevin Hardesty brought the Kentucky legend, Daniel Boone, to life. September 17, 2015 on...

Attended a Cornerstone event about answering the question "What is God's Will for My Major?" - September 17, 2015