Enrollment at Salina Area Technical College rose 27% in the fall of 2018 compared to the previous fall, according to information collected on September 20th for reporting to the Kansas Board of Regents. According to the enrollment data, Salina Tech had a total of 435 Full Time Equivalent students, compared with 342 at this time in 2017. [...]
Dustin Pestinger, president of Pestinger Heating and Air Conditioning and chairman of the Salina Area Technical College Board of Trustees, told graduates Saturday to embrace three words as they enter their professional lives: “go, see, and do.” Graduates Tamre Petree and Vonetta Robinson, of Salina Area Technical College, wear the graduation caps they decorated outside [...]
Salina Area Technical College on Friday inducted nine students into its chapter of the National Technical Honor Society. Inductees to Salina Tech's chapter of the National Technical Honor Society for 2017-18 are: Back row, Noah Pfannenstiel, Hunter Mendenhall, Joshua Gengler, Zaide Korb, Cheryl Gray. Front row, Laura Von Bergen, Erika Ruiz, Aubrey Bieker, Steven Weigand. [...]
“The top 10 jobs haven’t even been invented yet,” said Greg Nichols, president of Salina Area Technical College. “We’re preparing students for jobs that haven’t even been invented yet, especially in the technical field,” said Julie Rowe, director of the career services office at Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus. “If you already know about the technology, [...]
Christy Woolsey, a 2017 Salina Area Technical College graduate, knows a thing or two about perseverance and dedication. During her nine-month dental assistant program at SATC, Woolsey commuted two hours round trip from her hometown of Manhattan to Salina, running out of gas numerous times. The 33-year-old single mother of two children -- 8-year-old Avante Cunningham [...]
![Graduates Tamre Petree and Vonetta Robinson, of Salina Area Technical College, wear the graduation caps they decorated outside the Stiefel Theatre before commencement on Saturday. [AARON ANDERS / SALINA JOURNAL]](https://www.salinatech.edu/wp-content/uploads/20180505-Graduation.jpg)
