Chattahoochee Technical College - Chat Tech

Chattahoochee Technical College (commonly Chattahoochee Tech or sometimes CTC or Chatt Tech ) 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 eight campuses in the north-northwest metro-Atlanta area, and another just outside the region. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS) to award technical certificates of credit, diplomas, and associate degrees. The college was formed in 2009 as the result of the merger of Appalachian Technical College, Chattahoochee Technical College, and North Metro Technical College.

Locations

There are eight campus locations north and northwest of Atlanta. The original and main campus, known as the Marietta Campus, is located immediately adjacent to Marietta, between South Cobb Drive (Georgia 280) and Sandtown Road (33.929°N 84.555°W / 33.929; -84.555 (Chattahoochee Technical College, Marietta main campus)). During the early 2000s, three buildings were added on the other side of Sandtown Road, within the Marietta city limits.

Its three original satellite campuses are the Mountain View Campus (northeast Cobb; 34.0343°N 84.4677°W / 34.0343; -84.4677 (Chattahoochee Technical College, Mountain View satellite campus)), South Cobb Campus (now known as the Austell Campus) (Mableton/Austell; 33.8156°N 84.6°W / 33.8156; -84.6 (Chattahoochee Technical College, South Cobb satellite campus)), and Paulding Campus (Dallas; 33.9107°N 84.8263°W / 33.9107; -84.8263 (Chattahoochee Technical College, Paulding satellite campus)).

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 Paulding Campus is home to the college's nursing program.

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 school's address is on Frank Gordy Parkway, a loop which allows access to these developments, but whose street name 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. The campus closed to undergo an extensive renovation beginning in 2013, then reopened for the 2015 fall semester.

A campus in Canton opened at Bluffs Technology Park (approximately 34.2735°N 84.4707°W / 34.2735; -84.4707 (Bluffs Technology Park)) 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, but is served by the Appalachian Campus.

Through June 2009, graduation ceremonies were held only in June and September, and were at the Mable House amphitheatre in Mableton. Due to the growth of the graduating class, theDecember 2009 graduation ceremony was held at the Cobb Galleria Centre; in June 2010 it was held nearby at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre where it has remained until 2016, during which the ceremony was held at the Clarence Brown Conference Center in Cartersville.

References

External links

• CTC official site
• New Georgia Encyclopedia on CTC