Albany Technical College holding National Technical Honor Society, honor graduates program

ALBANY — Albany Technical College is set to hold a National Technical Honor Society induction ceremony and Fall 2018 honor graduates program this evening.

The ceremony is scheduled for 6 p.m. tonight in the institution’s Logistics Education Center Student Center. Thirteen Albany Tech students will be inducted into NTHS. In order to qualify for induction, students must be enrolled at Albany Tech; have completed two consecutive semesters of course work, a minimum of 18 credit hours; hold at least a 3.5 GPA overall; exemplify the personal qualities of an honor student and maintain the required grade average to remain a member of the organization.

Officials at the school said Albany Tech NTHS President Johnnie Hunter will provide opening remarks and Albany Tech alumni and member of the NTHS, Julianna Matthews, will provide the pledge/charge to the new inductees. Hunter and three Albany Tech NTHS members will officiate the candlelight ceremony, a tradition of NTHS induction.

For Albany Tech’s graduation, 106 candidates will receive awards in categories such as American Criminal Justice Club, Ambassadors, Engineering Club, Honors with Distinction, NTHS, Phi Beta Lambda, Presidential Scholar, SkillsUSA, Student Fellowship for Christians, Student Government Association and General Education Development.

Anthony Parker, president of Albany Tech since July 1995, will be speaking. He is the former vice president of student services at Aiken Technical College in Aiken, S.C. and Southeastern Tech in Vidalia. Parker also assumed the duties of interim assistant commissioner of adult literacy for the Technical College System of Georgia in Atlanta, serving from July 1, 2005 through April 1, 2006.

Albany Tech officials said that, since his arrival, the school has completed a capital campaign, doubled enrollment and taken responsibility for adult literacy. New facilities were constructed or renovated on the Dougherty County campus, a campus was constructed in Early County and a learning center was built in Randolph County.

Parker holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master’s degree in counseling and guidance from South Carolina State University. He received a specialist in education degree in educational administration from Augusta College and a doctorate from the University of South Carolina. He is also a graduate of the Institute of Educational Management at the Harvard University Graduate School.

He graduated from the Executive Leadership Institute at the League for Innovation in the Community College and also served as a faculty member on four occasions.

Albany Tech, located at 1704 S. Slappey Blvd., is a public postsecondary institution of TCSG accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. For more information, visit www.albanytech.edu.

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