The Ohio Department of Higher Education has set up the Ohio Short-Term Certificate Grant Program, which will award up to $2,000 in need-based aid to students enrolled in 26 credit and non-credit certificates.
Miami Valley Career Technology Center is adding a Registered Nurse Diploma program to their roster of healthcare classes. Students with an LPN license can sign up for a twelve month, fifty week program in MVCTC’s adult education division.
A group of community members have fundraised over $82,000 in donations to be presented to the Marion County School Board. Marion Technical College will receive two awards for individual students enrolled in the Practical Nursing program.
Select Medical and Mercy Health - Toledo announced plans to start a joint critical illness recovery hospital on the fourth and fifth floors of Mercy Health - St. Charles Hospital. Mercy Health sponsors Mercy College of Ohio which provides degrees in the health sciences and health care to the community.
Students interested in the electrician, cosmetology, cyber security, welding, and creative arts and design programs at Mahoning County Career and Technical center have a lot of competition as dozens of students are being placed on waitlists for those classes. The ability to get an associate degree while graduating from high school and a very competitive job market are driving many students to schools like MCCTC.
Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown announced that Kent State University will receive two grants worth a collective $622,051 to research software development and training opportunities in the mathematical sciences. The funding was awarded by the National Science Foundation as part of the Supporting Early Career Researchers Act, of which Senator Brown is a cosponsor.
Davis College in Ohio has announced four new Applied Business programs in Digital Marketing, Healthcare Administration, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, and Project Management.
Several Central Technical College board members, the Ariel Foundation, and the Knox County Foundation have set up the Knox Promise which will pay for the tuition of COTC students who file a FAFSA form with a family income below $60,000, and meet several other eligibility qualifications.
After an exhaustive nationwide search, the Ferris State University Board of Trustees has unanimously selected current Grand Rapids Community College president Dr. Bill Pink to be the 19th president of FSU. An official vote will be held in Big Rapids on May 6.
Ashtabula County Technical and Career Campus and Iten Industries have teamed up to help students get hands-on experience in the field of industrial manufacturing based on a Work Based Learning requirement set up by the Ohio Department of Education.
