Dr. Ed Hughes is stepping down as president & CEO of Gateway Community & Technical College. In an email Monday, Hughes said that his retirement will be effective Wednesday, September 16. “My retirement has been planned for some time but recent events have helped me decide to accelerate the timing of it,” Hughes said in […]
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After Contentious Meetings, Gateway Board Reviews President
The meeting of the Gateway Community & Technical College Board of Directors on September 1 was relatively uneventful, a departure from its previous meeting and several other prior ones. It is no secret that some board members, specifically Chairman Jeffrey Groob, and President/CEO Dr. Ed Hughes have had conflict between them. In the fall of […]
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Will This New Campaign Attract Millennials to Advanced Manufacturing?
A new campaign launched Tuesday aims to draw more Northern Kentucky Millennials, those born in the early 1980’s and 1990’s, to careers in advanced manufacturing. The Advanced Manufacturing Workforce Development Coalition enlisted fresh faces of young people who currently work for local companies. The theme of the new campaign is “I made it in NKY” and […]
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Downtown Covington College Campus Gets Its Library with Unique Relationship
The proposed partnership that was instrumental in the development plans for a college campus in downtown Covington bore fruit on Wednesday. Gateway Community & Technical College, in the midst of its urban metro campus expansion, made official its relationship with the Kenton County Public Library when president Dr. Ed Hughes and executive director Dave Schroeder […]
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Changes in Leadership Announced at Gateway
Gateway Community & Technical College announced multiple administrative changes on Wednesday. Dr. Teri VonHandorf will take over as vice president for academic affairs, replacing former Thomas More College president Sister Margaret Stallmeyer, who is retiring. “Dr. VonHandorf is recognized expert in the area of developmental education, has led the effort to increase pathways between Gateway and four-year institutions […]
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Gateway Named Among Best Online Colleges, Will Not Raise Tuition
Gateway Community and Technical College has just been named one of the 25 best online colleges of 2015 by BestColleges.com according to the college’s President and CEO G. Edward Hughes, who announced the news at the Board of Directors meeting Thursday night. “We just received the news,” Hughes said. “This national recognition reflects the outstanding work done by […]
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Gateway’s New Massage Therapy Center Now Open
On Thursday afternoon, The River City News got a sneak peek inside Gateway Community and Technical College’s new massage therapy center on the third floor of the student-run Emerge Hair Studio & Spa on Scott Boulevard. Located inside the old Abode furniture store at the corner of 5th Street and Scott Boulevard, Emerge Hair Studio […]
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He Works With Military Veteran Students at Gateway and Will Rock for Them in Florence
Gateway Community and Technical College has teamed up with the Florence Freedom for an event that honors students who are military veterans. Gateway Vets at the Ballpark is scheduled for May 21 and the college will provide free tickets to the veteran students for an evening of baseball and music. Daniel Ridley is the Veteran’s Career Mapping […]
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Gateway Professor’s Debut Novel Stars Veteran Amputees as New Detectives
First, Rock Neelly and I are friends and I admire anyone who completes and publishes a readable first novel, which Neelly has done with The Purple Heart Detective Agency. Neelly discussed the process of writing his first novel over coffee recently in a back room of Roebling Point Books & Coffee in Covington. His uniform of […]
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Gateway Design Students Take Home Gold at ADDY Awards
Students in Gateway Community and Technical College’s Visual Communication Program were recently honored at the Cincinnati ADDY Awards. Matthew Plummer, of Peachtree, KY, won a Gold and a Silver ADDY for his Coastal FUEL logo and stationery package. Amanda Featherston, of Batavia, OH, won a Gold ADDY for her anti-abortion propaganda poster and a Gold […]
