The region’s appreciation for historic preservation will now be highlighted by Gateway Community & Technical College. Its historic preservation arts classes will begin on February 2 at the Urban Metro Campus in Covington, where enrollment is open to community members. The area of study emerged after a grassroots effort led by Progress With Preservation, a […]
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Gateway Adds 6 New Welding Certifications, Professional Meetings
There are six new welding certifications being offered at Gateway Community & Technical College. Students may now earn welder helper, gas welder, ARC cutter, shielded metal arch welding, gas medal ARC welding and gas Tungsten ARC welding certificates. These are in addition to the combination welder, tack welder, production line welder and ARC welder certificates […]
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Gateway Shines at Speech Tournament
The Gateway Community and Technical College speech team won awards over the weekend at a tournament held at Berea College. Gateway’s team of Sawyer Edelbroich and Stewart Newburger competed in novice parliamentary debate and advanced all the way to the semi-finals where they lost to the novice parliamentary debate champions, a team from the University of Virginia. […]
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Board Chair: Developers Interested in Gateway’s Downtown Covington Church
The downsizing of the Gateway Community & Technical College urban metro campus in downtown Covington appears to be in motion. Ken Paul, the interim chair of the college’s board of directors, said at Monday night’s special meeting in Ft. Wright that at least three developers are sniffing out opportunities at the First United Methodist Church, […]
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Race, Justice to Be Explored as Gateway Leads Months-Long Community Discussion
International Literacy Day will be kicked off in downtown Covington on Thursday as Gateway Community & Technical College begins its NEA Big Read community project. The school is one of 77 nonprofit organizations that received a $14,000 grant to host the national project between September and June. Gateway selected the classic book, A Lesson Before Dying by […]
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Locals Appointed to NKU, EKU, and KCTCS Boards
Four from Northern Kentucky have been appointed by Governor Matt Bevin to the boards of Northern Kentucky University, Eastern Kentucky University, and the Kentucky Community & Technical College System. At NKU, Bevin tapped Ft. Mitchell attorney Gregory Shumate to serve on the Board of Regents. The Republican activist and attorney with Frost Brown Todd replaces […]
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New Gateway President on Covington Campus, Manufacturing, & Competing
When Fernando Figueroa was a senior at Loyola University in New Orleans, he wasn’t entirely sure what he was going to do with his life. Then, on a whim, he entered an empty classroom and did a little role-playing as a teacher. “It was me and some chalk and I did a fifteen-minute lecture on […]
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New Gateway President Welcomed to First Day on the Job
Gateway Community and Technical College welcomes its new president to his first day on the job Monday. Dr. Fernando Figueroa was named Gateway’s new president in May. He was previously a vice chancellor in the Dallas Community College System. “We welcome Dr. Figueroa to our community with open arms. Dallas’s loss is our gain,” said […]
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Service Programs at NKU, Gateway Win Grant Funding
The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) announced Friday that Kentucky has received more than $6 million in AmeriCorps federal funding for 19 programs with more than 1,000 members, including multiple ones in Northern Kentucky. Most of the programs were funded through an annual grant competition by the Corporation for National and Community […]
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Gateway Names New President
There is a new president at Gateway Community & Technical College. Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) President Jay Box announced Friday afternoon the appointment of Dr. Fernando Figueroa as president of Gateway (GCTC). Figueroa currently serves as vice chancellor for Educational Policy at Dallas County Community College. He has held leadership positions at Del Mar College […]
