Chattahoochee Technical College
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Chattahoochee Technical College (commonly Chattahoochee Tech, sometimes CTC) is a two-year state technical college located in the U.S. state
of Georgia
. It is governed by the Technical College System of Georgia
. Chattahoochee Technical College has seven campus
es in the north-northwest metro Atlanta
area, and another just outside of the region. It is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
(SACS) to award technical certificates of credit, diplomas, and associate
of applied technology
degrees.
. Prior to the 2009 merger, there were over 6000 students enroll
ed in 27 programs of study, making CTC Georgia's largest technical college by enrollment. Combined with the campuses which joined it, there were over 10,000 students. , there were 11,365 enrolled, an increase of 27.3% from the 8,931 of winter quarter 2009.
The Blue Heron
was the official mascot of Chattahoochee Technical College, created in 2004 by marketing management student Kevin M. Moss (2005 alumnus), who later went on to serve as secretary/treasurer of CTC's student government (2004–2005) and student-body president (2007–2008) of nearby Southern Polytechnic State University
's student government. The Golden Eagle
is the new mascot of the combined school.
Students of the school's video production
major produce some of the programming seen on Cobb edTV, the local Educational-access television channel seen on Comcast
cable TV (or Charter Cable in Smyrna
).
. The main campus is located in south Marietta
, near Fair Oaks
, between South Cobb Drive (Georgia 280) and Sandtown
Road (33.929°N 84.555°W). It has since added three buildings on the west side of Sandtown Road, and an earlier one on the south side of Beech Road at the corner of South Cobb Drive.
Its three original additional campuses are: Mountain View (northeast Cobb
; 34.0343°N 84.4677°W), South Cobb (Mableton/Austell; 33.8156°N 84.6°W), and Paulding
(Dallas
; 33.9107°N 84.8263°W).
The Paulding campus was dedicated in November 1996. A second building was constructed in 2009, and dedicated on October 13, with keynote speaker Glenn Richardson
.
The Mountain View campus was donated to Cobb County by the family of the late Frank Gordy
, proprietor of the famous restaurant The Varsity
in Atlanta. Specified for educational use, the county supplied the land and most of the construction money for the building, which was dedicated to the county commission
in 2000 and opened for class that October, and was transferred to the state in 2009 after having been leased for a dollar a year. It shares a parking lot with the adjacent Mountain View Aquatics Center
, an indoor public swimming pool run by the county. The remainder of the formerly forested land was sold and developed
in the 1990s for strip mall
s and upscale tract housing
. The school's address is on Frank Gordy Parkway, a loop which allows access to these developments, but whose street signs all indicate only "Gordy Parkway".
The South Cobb campus was renamed the Austell
campus in spring 2010. It consists of two one-story buildings on Tech Center Drive, and its address is on Veterans Memorial Drive (U.S. 78/278 & Georgia 8), which was originally the historic Bankhead Highway.
The Woodstock campus is located in the former Woodstock Elementary School (historically the all-grades Woodstock School
, the town's first public school), and was the second campus of Appalachian Tech.
Through June 2009, graduation ceremonies were held only in June and September, and were at the Mable House amphitheatre in Mableton. The December 2009, due to the growth of the graduating class, the graduation ceremony was held at the Cobb Galleria Centre
; in June 2010 it was held nearby at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre
.
Enrollment by campus for fall 2009, compared to the previous year:
3,500 students registered for classes at multiple campuses. The Austell campus was closed for the quarter for renovations, so that most of the medical programs could be moved there.
A new campus in Canton
is now open at Bluffs Technology Park (approximately 34.2735°N 84.4707°W) and opened for winter quarter 2011. Gilmer
(north of Pickens) is the only county within the school's official service area that does not have a campus of its own.
near Acworth
(but in Bartow
rather than Cobb) was approved. In October 2008, the two remaining campuses of Appalachian Technical College
were added to the merger. This includes the nearby satellite campus in Woodstock
, and the much further main campus, located on the outskirts of metro Atlanta
in Jasper
. (The Woodstock campus switched at the beginning of January 2009, while the third Fannin
campus in Epworth went to another TCSG school, North Georgia Technical College.)
The merger, expedited due to the 2009 recession, officially took effect at the beginning of July 2009 (Georgia
fiscal year "2010"). Originally all schools would be forced to completely change their names, and all signs and stationery which use them. However, in January 2009 it was announced that "Chattahoochee Technical College" would continue to be the name, although the logo was changed. Dr. Sanford Chandler, president of Appalachian Tech, was named the head of the newly combined school. Dr. Harlon Crimm was the previous head of Chattahoochee Tech.
Rather than being named the Bartow, Pickens
, and Cherokee
campuses as would be consistent with the other county-named TCSG schools, they are called the North Metro, Appalachian, and Woodstock campuses.
U.S. state
A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...
of Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
. It is governed by the Technical College System of Georgia
Technical College System of Georgia
The Technical College System of Georgia , formerly known as the Department of Technical and Adult Education , is the body which supervises the U.S...
. Chattahoochee Technical College has seven campus
Campus
A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings...
es in the north-northwest metro Atlanta
Metro Atlanta
The Atlanta metropolitan area or metro Atlanta, officially designated by the US Census Bureau as the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta Metropolitan Statistical Area, is the most populous metro area in the U.S. state of Georgia and the ninth-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States...
area, and another just outside of the region. It is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is one of the six regional accreditation organizations recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation...
(SACS) to award technical certificates of credit, diplomas, and associate
Associate's degree
An associate degree is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by community colleges, junior colleges, technical colleges, and bachelor's degree-granting colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study usually lasting two years...
of applied technology
Applied Technology
Applied Technology, Australia founded by Owen Hill in 1975, was a pioneer producer of home computers that ran CP/M on Zilog Z80 microprocessors. Their MicroBee computer was the first commercial personal computer manufactured in Australia....
degrees.
Facts and figures
Chattahoochee Technical College was founded in 1963, and is named for the Chattahoochee RiverChattahoochee River
The Chattahoochee River flows through or along the borders of the U.S. states of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. It is a tributary of the Apalachicola River, a relatively short river formed by the confluence of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers and emptying into Apalachicola Bay in the Gulf of...
. Prior to the 2009 merger, there were over 6000 students enroll
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
ed in 27 programs of study, making CTC Georgia's largest technical college by enrollment. Combined with the campuses which joined it, there were over 10,000 students. , there were 11,365 enrolled, an increase of 27.3% from the 8,931 of winter quarter 2009.
The Blue Heron
Blue Heron
Blue Heron can refer to:* Little Blue Heron, a small heron* Great Blue Heron, a large wading bird* Blue Heron Lake, Canada* Great Blue Heron Casino, Canada* Blue Heron Estate, Alberta* Blue Heron, Kentucky* Blue Heron Park Preserve, New York City...
was the official mascot of Chattahoochee Technical College, created in 2004 by marketing management student Kevin M. Moss (2005 alumnus), who later went on to serve as secretary/treasurer of CTC's student government (2004–2005) and student-body president (2007–2008) of nearby Southern Polytechnic State University
Southern Polytechnic State University
Southern Polytechnic State University is a public, co-educational state university located in Marietta, Georgia, USA just northwest of Atlanta...
's student government. The Golden Eagle
Golden Eagle
The Golden Eagle is one of the best known birds of prey in the Northern Hemisphere. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. Once widespread across the Holarctic, it has disappeared from many of the more heavily populated areas...
is the new mascot of the combined school.
Students of the school's video production
Video production
Video production is videography, the process of capturing moving images on electronic media even streaming media. The term includes methods of production and post-production...
major produce some of the programming seen on Cobb edTV, the local Educational-access television channel seen on Comcast
Comcast
Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...
cable TV (or Charter Cable in Smyrna
Smyrna, Georgia
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 40,999 people, 18,372 households, and 9,498 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,949.9 people per square mile . There were 19,633 housing units at an average density of 1,412.6 per square mile...
).
Locations
There are now eight campus locations north and northwest of AtlantaAtlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
. The main campus is located in south Marietta
Marietta, Georgia
Marietta is a city located in central Cobb County, Georgia, United States, and is its county seat.As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 56,579, making it one of metro Atlanta's largest suburbs...
, near Fair Oaks
Fair Oaks, Georgia
Fair Oaks is a census-designated place in Cobb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 8,225 at the 2010 census.Fair Oaks lies just outside the city limits of Marietta, Georgia, and the area uses "Marietta" for its mailing addresses. Except for actual residents of Fair Oaks, very few...
, between South Cobb Drive (Georgia 280) and Sandtown
Sandtown
Sandtown is a predominantly African-American neighborhood located southwest of Atlanta, Georgia. It is one of the Atlanta area's most affluent African American communities with the majority of the population belonging to the middle and upper middle class....
Road (33.929°N 84.555°W). It has since added three buildings on the west side of Sandtown Road, and an earlier one on the south side of Beech Road at the corner of South Cobb Drive.
Its three original additional campuses are: Mountain View (northeast Cobb
Cobb County, Georgia
Cobb County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. Its county seat and largest city is Marietta, which is located in the center of the county. The county was named for Thomas Willis Cobb, who in the early 19th century was a United States representative and senator from Georgia...
; 34.0343°N 84.4677°W), South Cobb (Mableton/Austell; 33.8156°N 84.6°W), and Paulding
Paulding County, Georgia
Paulding County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 142,324. The county seat is Dallas....
(Dallas
Dallas, Georgia
Dallas is a city in and the county seat of Paulding County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 11,544. It was named for George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States of America under James K. Polk.-History:...
; 33.9107°N 84.8263°W).
The Paulding campus was dedicated in November 1996. A second building was constructed in 2009, and dedicated on October 13, with keynote speaker Glenn Richardson
Glenn Richardson
Glenn Richardson is the former Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, in the U.S. state of Georgia. Following a suicide attempt, he announced in 2009 that he would resign as Speaker effective Jan. 1, 2010, and he resigned as a member of the House on Jan...
.
The Mountain View campus was donated to Cobb County by the family of the late Frank Gordy
Frank Gordy
Frank Gordy is the founder of The Varsity chain of restaurants, which includes the world's largest drive-in restaurant on North Avenue near Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA....
, proprietor of the famous restaurant The Varsity
The Varsity
The Varsity is a restaurant chain, iconic in the modern culture of Atlanta, Georgia. The main branch of the chain is the largest drive-in fast food restaurant in the world...
in Atlanta. Specified for educational use, the county supplied the land and most of the construction money for the building, which was dedicated to the county commission
County commission
A county commission is a group of elected officials charged with administering the county government in local government in some states of the United States. County commissions are usually made up of three or more individuals...
in 2000 and opened for class that October, and was transferred to the state in 2009 after having been leased for a dollar a year. It shares a parking lot with the adjacent Mountain View Aquatics Center
Cobb County Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Department
In the U.S. state of Georgia, the Cobb County Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Department is the unit of Cobb county government which handles county parks, recreation facilities, and cultural affairs programs.-Eastern district:...
, an indoor public swimming pool run by the county. The remainder of the formerly forested land was sold and developed
Land development
Land development refers to altering the landscape in any number of ways such as:* changing landforms from a natural or semi-natural state for a purpose such as agriculture or housing...
in the 1990s for strip mall
Strip mall
A strip mall is an open-area shopping center where the stores are arranged in a row, with a sidewalk in front. Strip malls are typically developed as a unit and have large parking lots in front...
s and upscale tract housing
Tract housing
Tract housing is a style of housing development in which multiple similar homes are built on a tract of land which is subdivided into individual small lots...
. The school's address is on Frank Gordy Parkway, a loop which allows access to these developments, but whose street signs all indicate only "Gordy Parkway".
The South Cobb campus was renamed the Austell
Austell, Georgia
Austell is a city in Cobb County in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 6,581.-History:Austell used to be known as Salt Springs, and was frequented by hunters who would trap and hunt game on their way to the salt licks. Some enterprising hunters claimed...
campus in spring 2010. It consists of two one-story buildings on Tech Center Drive, and its address is on Veterans Memorial Drive (U.S. 78/278 & Georgia 8), which was originally the historic Bankhead Highway.
The Woodstock campus is located in the former Woodstock Elementary School (historically the all-grades Woodstock School
Woodstock School
Woodstock School is a Christian, international, co-educational, residential school located in Landour, a small hill station contiguous with the town of Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India....
, the town's first public school), and was the second campus of Appalachian Tech.
Through June 2009, graduation ceremonies were held only in June and September, and were at the Mable House amphitheatre in Mableton. The December 2009, due to the growth of the graduating class, the graduation ceremony was held at the Cobb Galleria Centre
Cobb Galleria Centre
The Cobb Galleria Centre is a meeting and convention center and a shopping center in the Cumberland/Galleria district of Cobb County, in northwest Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. It is also located next to a cluster of mid-rise office buildings, the Cumberland Mall and the Cobb Energy...
; in June 2010 it was held nearby at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre
Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre
The Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre is a performing arts venue located in the Cumberland/Galleria edge city, just northwest of Atlanta, Georgia...
.
Enrollment by campus for fall 2009, compared to the previous year:
- Marietta: 5,428 (+38.1%)
- North Metro: 3,284 (+33.8%)
- Appalachian: 1,013 (+44.7%)
- Paulding: 994 (+18.9%)
- Mountain View: 958 (+34.4%)
- Woodstock: 437 (+49.1%)
3,500 students registered for classes at multiple campuses. The Austell campus was closed for the quarter for renovations, so that most of the medical programs could be moved there.
A new campus in Canton
Canton, Georgia
Canton is a city in and the county seat of Cherokee County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 22,958.-Geography:Canton is located at ....
is now open at Bluffs Technology Park (approximately 34.2735°N 84.4707°W) and opened for winter quarter 2011. Gilmer
Gilmer County, Georgia
Gilmer County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. It was created on December 3, 1832 and was named for George Rockingham Gilmer. As of 2000, the population was 23,456. The 2007 Census Estimate shows a population of 28,389...
(north of Pickens) is the only county within the school's official service area that does not have a campus of its own.
Merger
In early August 2008, a merger with North Metro Technical CollegeNorth Metro Technical College
North Metro Technical College was a two-year state technical college located in the state of Georgia, and governed by the Technical College System of Georgia. The college was accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award associate degrees...
near Acworth
Acworth, Georgia
Acworth is a city in Cobb County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 20,425. Acworth is located in the foothills of the North Georgia mountains along the southeastern banks of Lake Acworth and Lake Allatoona on the Etowah River.Acworth's nickname is "The...
(but in Bartow
Bartow County, Georgia
Bartow County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 100,157. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's July 1, 2009 estimate, the county's explosive growth resulted in a population of 96,217, a 26.5% increase in less than ten years...
rather than Cobb) was approved. In October 2008, the two remaining campuses of Appalachian Technical College
Appalachian Technical College
Appalachian Technical College was a technical college within the Technical College System of Georgia. Its main campus was in Jasper, and its satellite campus was in Woodstock...
were added to the merger. This includes the nearby satellite campus in Woodstock
Woodstock, Georgia
Woodstock is a city in Cherokee County, Georgia, United States. The population was 23,896 at the 2010 census.Originally a stop on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Woodstock is now considered part of the Atlanta metropolitan area...
, and the much further main campus, located on the outskirts of metro Atlanta
Metro Atlanta
The Atlanta metropolitan area or metro Atlanta, officially designated by the US Census Bureau as the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta Metropolitan Statistical Area, is the most populous metro area in the U.S. state of Georgia and the ninth-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States...
in Jasper
Jasper, Georgia
Jasper is a city in Pickens County, Georgia, United States. The population was 3,684 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of Pickens County...
. (The Woodstock campus switched at the beginning of January 2009, while the third Fannin
Fannin County, Georgia
Fannin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. It was created on January 21, 1854. As of 2000, the population was 19,798. The 2007 Census Estimate shows a population of 22,580...
campus in Epworth went to another TCSG school, North Georgia Technical College.)
The merger, expedited due to the 2009 recession, officially took effect at the beginning of July 2009 (Georgia
Government of Georgia (U.S. state)
The state government of Georgia is the U.S. state governmental body established by the Georgia State Constitution. It is a republican government with three branches: the legislature, executive, and judiciary...
fiscal year "2010"). Originally all schools would be forced to completely change their names, and all signs and stationery which use them. However, in January 2009 it was announced that "Chattahoochee Technical College" would continue to be the name, although the logo was changed. Dr. Sanford Chandler, president of Appalachian Tech, was named the head of the newly combined school. Dr. Harlon Crimm was the previous head of Chattahoochee Tech.
Rather than being named the Bartow, Pickens
Pickens County, Georgia
Pickens County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. The 2000 Census showed a population of 22,983. The 2007 Census Estimate showed a population of 30,488...
, and Cherokee
Cherokee County, Georgia
As of the census of 2000, there were 141,903 people, 49,495 households, and 39,200 families residing in the county. The population density was 335 people per square mile . There were 51,937 housing units at an average density of 123 per square mile...
campuses as would be consistent with the other county-named TCSG schools, they are called the North Metro, Appalachian, and Woodstock campuses.