Hocking College
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Hocking College is a 2 year technical college located in Nelsonville, Ohio. The College is recognized for its innovative hands-on instructional approach with degree and certificate programs, with various specialties including natural resources, health and nursing, public safety services, business, IT, culinary arts, hospitality, and industrial technology.
Approximately 60% of Hocking's 5,500+ student body comes to Nelsonville from all over Ohio, every US state and over 50 countries.
As part of its learning labs the College operates:
- a full service hotel and conference center
- a gourmet restaurant
- a travel agency
- a Bahamian island field station
- a 365 acre (1.5 km²) park with 165 acre (668,000 m²) lake
- a fish hatchery
- an 1800’s historical village with 13 log structures
- a stable of 54 horses
Notable
- Noted author Robert Clark Young taught writing at the college from 1991 through 1998.
- The college is the first in the United States to break with the academic tradition that administrators must have publications in their fields. Instead, administrators are required to engage in a quarterly series of in-house Professional Development Days, during which "Student-Centered Facilitation" is emphasized. Rather than seek outside publication, either in relevant journals or in book form, administrators make copious notes based on the presentations of other administrators. Under this unique system, college President John Light, Vice President Judy Maxson, and Dean of Arts and Sciences Claudette Stevens are among the first college administrators in the U.S. to rise to their positions without publishing books or journal articles in their fields.
- The Sandals and Supper Club resorts have all their management staff trained at Hocking College.
External link
Hocking College website (http://www.hocking.edu)