Salina Area Technical College is joining nearly 100 other technical colleges across the nation Feb. 20 in hosting an event to recognize and celebrate students who are entering the college in the fall of 2020. The event, called National Technical Letter of Intent Signing Day, is similar to the signing days colleges have long hosted for [...]
A lot is riding on the fenders of a compact car. “It’s not a car donation; it’s an investment,” said Alan Scher, regional manager of the Ford Motor Co.’s Kansas City region. “It’s a car but it’s so much more.” Scher was at Salina Area Technical College to help present a 2015 Ford Focus SE from [...]
The Aspen Institute’s College Excellence Program has named Salina Area Technical College one of the top 150 community colleges across the nation, and eligible to compete for the $1 million Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. The 150 community colleges were selected from a pool of nearly 1,000 two-year colleges nationwide, using publicly available data on [...]
Hundreds of students from across the state on Wednesday came to Salina to learn about and the manufacturing industry. Great Plains Manufacturing took part in the nationwide Manufacturing Day and showcased the variety of jobs and parts of the manufacturing industry. “This was to spread awareness about manufacturing and show students there are opportunities for them [...]
While enrollment numbers are a mixed bag across Kansas, two Saline County schools continue to show progress. The Kansas Board of Regents released its Fall Preliminary Enrollment Summary from 2014-2019 on Wednesday. The numbers show that both Kansas State University Polytechnic and Salina Area Technical College continue to build on enrollment success. The Kansas State University [...]
The Chronicle of Higher Education has once again recognized Salina Area Technical College for having among the highest graduation rates among two-year colleges in the United States. The Chronicle’s annual Almanac edition ranked Salina Tech second in the nation among two-year colleges for its graduation rate of 72.6 percent. In all, 847 two-year colleges were included [...]
About 60 students attended the third annual Salina Area Technical College Summer Camp Tuesday through Friday. The camp teaches students in late elementary school, middle school, and early high school about the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering, and math. The students were divided into six classes: hydraulics, welding, construction, machine tool, electrical, and medical. One of [...]
Airgas, a U.S. subsidiary of Air Liquide and a leading supplier of industrial, medical and specialty gases, welding hardgoods and safety products, will welcome high school technology shop teachers from across the state of Kansas for a two-day welding workshop held at Salina Area Technical College on June 4 and 5. With local customers around the [...]
Students from Salina Area Technical College brought home nine medals from the Kansas SkillsUSA competition in Hutchinson this past week. Three students won gold medals, qualifying them to compete at the national SkillsUSA conference in Louisville, Kentucky in June. Read more at KSAL.com
The Higher Learning Commission has approved Salina Area Technical College’s plan to offer an Associate of Applied Science in Nursing program beginning this fall. The program was approved by the Kansas State Board of Nursing and the Kansas Board of Regents this past September. This is the second new nursing program started at Salina Tech in [...]
