About Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College

Orangeburg–Calhoun Technical College (OCtech) is a public community teacher in Orangeburg, South Carolina. It is ration of the South Carolina Technical College System and serves Orangeburg and Calhoun counties.

The South Carolina Technical Educational System was standard in 1961 in a legislation signed by then bureaucrat Ernest F. Hollings in order to educate the citizens of South Carolina in the puzzling and vocational fields, an try to shorten the jobs purposeless by means of the declining resources in the agricultural and textile fields.

Ground was broken for the Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical Education Center on October 25, 1967, and it opened on September 16, 1968. During the approved dedication ceremonies held on May 16, 1969, the late Senator Marshall B. Williams acknowledged that this additional education facility “represents the dreams and put on an act of many people in the area.

On December 2, 1970, Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical Education Center Director Charles P. Weber announced that the institution had become sufficiently accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). This, along subsequent to a assistance by the Orangeburg-Calhoun Area Technical Education Commission and approved by the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education, incited a name fine-tune in May 1974 to Orangeburg–Calhoun Technical College. This more accurately reflected the college’s post-secondary education mission. The pronounce of director was also distorted to president at this time.

The original campus was 84,232 square feet (7,825.4 m2) of classrooms, labs and administrative offices. An spread in 1978 added additional buildings housing administrative offices, student personnel services and a learning resource center: the Gressette Learning Resource Center, named in award of Senator L. Marion Gressette of St. Matthews, and the Williams Administration Building in tribute of Senator Marshall B. Williams of Orangeburg.

In 1988, the 20th anniversary celebration marked the inauguration of the 32,430-square-foot (3,013 m2), $3.3 million Health Sciences building. In January 1993, the Industrial/Technology, Business/Computer Technology and Faculty Administration buildings were named in praise of Joe K. Fairey II (the Fairey family owns the St. Matthews Chevrolet dealership in the past 1926, which is now located across the street on the other side of US 601), John O. Wesner, Jr. and Ben R. Wetenhall, respectively.

In 2003, the Student Life and Community Center was completed as the further cornerstone of the college. The 37,000-square-foot (3,400 m2), $5.2 million skill is the home for Student Services, Career Training and Development, Planning, Development and Research offices, and the president’s office. This building along with features a Cyber Cafe, The Tourville Learning Lab, and meeting rooms, all of which are gate to the public.

The Gressette building was recently renovated and is the new home of the library, student lounge, campus bookstore and various offices.

In 2010, the Anne S. Crook Transportation and Logistics was completed.

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Orangeburg, also known as The Garden City, is the principal city in and the county chair of Orangeburg County, South Carolina, United States. The population of the city was 13,964 according to the 2010 United States Census. The city is located 37 miles southeast of Columbia, on the north fork of the Edisto River.

Two historically black institutions of forward-thinking education are located in Orangeburg: Claflin University (a avant-garde arts college) and South Carolina State University (a public university).