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SGTC graduation ceremony held.South Georgia Technical College hosted its 2016 spring commencement ceremony Thursday, May 12th at 6 p.m. in the James S. Peters Gymnasium on the Americus campus in front of a capacity crowd.         Approximately 200 students, 35 of which were either Presidential Honor or regular Honor Graduates, received awards of either an associate degree or a diploma during the 2016 spring commencement ceremony. Students must have an overall grade point average of...

Teresa O'Bryant and Tami Blount are shown above.South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford announced that Teresa O’Bryant has been named Executive Assistant to the President at South Georgia Technical College effective immediately. O’Bryant has been serving as the Administrative Assistant for Dr. Watford during his tenure as the Vice President of Academic Affairs and also worked with him when he was the Director of Academic Affairs.         Tami Blount,...

SGTC President Dr. John Watford is shown above with President Emeritus Sparky Reeves and his family.(Americus, GA) – The South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) Foundation paid tribute to over 200 of its foundation supporters at its annual Donor Appreciation Dinner in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the South Georgia Technical College campus recently.           College officials also unveiled the oil portrait of SGTC President Emeritus Sparky Reeves at the awards...

ATLANTA - “The BEST of the BEST,” was the way Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) Commissioner Gretchen Corbin described South Georgia Technical College’s Ashley Rodgers when she announced her as the state winner of the 2016 Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) program at the TCSG GOAL and Rick Perkins Instructor of Year awards banquet in Atlanta in front of over 200 top students, instructors, state and local board members, and technical college officials.      ...

New South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford thanked the over 400 individuals who attended the Presidential reception held in his honor recently at the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the Americus campus. “Thank you for coming out tonight and thank you for your support of South Georgia Technical College,” said President Dr. John Watford. “South Georgia Technical College is a very special place. We are in the business of changing lives. “I am very...

South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) announced its Fall Semester President’s List, which included 93 students.     In order to qualify for the President’s List, a student must be enrolled in a degree or diploma program and have a 4.0 GPA for that semester’s coursework. Those students who qualified included:   Cook County: Aaron Tyler Stanford of Lenox, Diesel Equipment Technology.   Crisp County: Phyllis C. Bass of Cordele, Early Childhood Care and Education; Aisha Rasha...

New SGTC President Dr. John WatfordATLANTA – Commissioner Gretchen Corbin announced today that Dr. John Watford will be the new president of South Georgia Technical College (SGTC). The state board of the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) voted during its monthly meeting today to accept Commissioner Corbin’s recommendation of Dr. Watford to the position.     Board member Dick Porter of Cairo made the motion to accept Corbin’s recommendation of Dr. Watford and the full board...

SGTC President Emeritus Sparky Reeves is shown above with SGTC Instructor of the Year Andrea Ingram and Allene Reeves.South Georgia Technical College President Emeritus Sparky Reeves and his wife, Allene, recognized South Georgia Tech’s 2016 Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year Andrea Ingram and the college’s 2016 Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) winner Ashley Rodgers recently with gifts from the Sparky and Allene Reeves endowed fund. President Emeritus Reeves and Allene...

SGTC Interim President Janice Davis presents Ashley Rogers with her GOAL award.South Georgia Technical College Marketing Management student Ashley Rodgers of Oglethorpe has been selected as SGTC’s GOAL winner for 2016, announced SGTC Acting President Janice Davis at the recent GOAL luncheon held in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on SGTC’s Americus campus.    Rodgers was selected for the honor by a panel of local community leaders out of a group of four finalists. The...

SGTC Interim President Janice Davis is shown above presenting Andrea Ingram with her Instructor of the Year plaque. Dr. John Watford, Vice President of Academic Affairs is also shown.South Georgia Technical College Computer Information Systems instructor Andrea Ingram was selected as the SGTC 2016 Instructor of the Year and will represent the college in the state Rick Perkins Award competition in Atlanta this year. The announcement was made by SGTC Acting President Janice Davis at a...

Technical College System of Georgia Commissioner Gretchen Corbin will be the keynote speaker at the South Georgia Technical College fall 2015 graduation exercise on Tuesday, December 15th at 6 p.m. in the James S. Peters Gymnasium on the Americus campus.           Commissioner Corbin as well as South Georgia Technical College’s 2015 Instructor of the Year Raven Payne will address the graduates and their families, fellow students, faculty, and staff during the commencement...

Janice David is named Interim President at SGTC.Americus, GA – Gretchen Corbin, Commissioner of the Technical College System of Georgia, has appointed Janice Worth Davis to serve as Acting President of South Georgia Technical College (SGTC), following the September 30th, 2015 retirement of SGTC President Sparky Reeves. Davis is currently Vice President of Administrative Services at South Georgia Tech.       “Janice Davis is a long-standing member of South Georgia Tech’s senior...