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An area chaplain program provides critical incident stress management to emergency services personnel while providing comfort and support to individuals affected by a traumatic event, including Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) students. Established in 2004, Southern Cross Ministries Inc. has 11 volunteer chaplains and serves the following members: Catoosa County 911/Emergency Communications Agency, Catoosa County […]

Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) is hosting an Open House for its Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) program to provide an opportunity to tour the facilities and to meet the instructors, staff and students. The event will take place in Room 6103 of Building 600 on GNTC’s Walker County Campus at 265 Bicentennial Trail, Rock […]

Forty-eight students have received their GED® diplomas through Georgia Northwestern Technical College’s (GNTC) Youth Success Academy (YSA). GNTC hosted two Youth Success Academy graduation ceremonies. Eighteen students graduated on Tuesday, May 21, from the YSA program at GNTC’s Floyd County Campus (FCC) in Rome. Thirty students graduated on Thursday, May 23, from the YSA program […]

 A partnership between Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) and Floyd County Prison offers offenders a path to employment as Class B commercial truck drivers after their release. GNTC and Floyd County Prison recently held a graduation ceremony that celebrated the first cohort of Class B CDL graduates, offenders that earned their GED® diploma and the […]

Vanessa Elise Blackmon, who graduated on May 2 with an Associate of Science degree in Nursing from Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC), has also completed a two-year scholar’s certificate program at the Blue Ridge Area Health Education Center. Blackmon attended classes at GNTC’s Walker County Campus in Rock Spring, resides in Dalton and is employed […]

To help remedy a shortage of area healthcare professionals, Atrium Health Floyd and Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) have signed a new agreement designed to boost enrollment in three of GNTC’s healthcare programs and increase the number of Respiratory Therapists, Radiologic Technologists and Certified Nursing Assistants in the northwest Georgia region. According to the fund […]

Special receptions were held at all six Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) campuses recently to honor and congratulate 2024 Dual Enrollment students. The receptions were held at the Catoosa County Campus, Ringgold; Floyd County Campus, Rome; Gordon County Campus, Calhoun; Polk County Campus, Rockmart; Walker County Campus, Rock Spring; and Whitfield Murray Campus, Dalton. “Dual […]

More than 170 Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) students crossed the stage of the Dalton Convention Center on Thursday, May 2, to the cheers of their families, friends and instructors. Vince Stalling, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Youth Services coordinator at GNTC, sang the National Anthem. Donny Holmes, program director and instructor of the […]

Deanna Hulsey, instructor of Cosmetology at Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) has been named the First Runner-Up for the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) 2024 Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year. Hulsey was named one of nine regional winners on Tuesday, April 30, at the GOAL and Rick Perkins State Conference in Atlanta. She […]

Deanna Hulsey, instructor of Cosmetology at Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC), is a regional finalist to become the Technical College System of Georgia’s (TCSG) 2024 Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year. The finalists were announced during a banquet honoring the system’s most outstanding students and instructors at the Grand Hyatt in Atlanta on Tuesday, April […]