just months after celebrating its 50th anniversary, the Southern Oklahoma expertise center is moving into a new era.
That new period begins with a new identify: Southern Tech.
The career tech announced the name alternate this week, shortening the identify after going by way of SOTC seeing that 2001, when the establishment changed its identify to Southern Oklahoma expertise core. The college become started in 1966 and called the Southern Oklahoma area Vocational Technical middle.
The SOTC acronym turned into first adopted after students and workforce all started calling the school "the vo-tech," which didn't accurately describe the school or distinguish it from different faculties within the state, in keeping with a statement from the faculty. The Oklahoma State branch of education started pushing for shortening the identify for the 29 tech facilities within the state in 1998, which become the start of SOTC.
a faculty authentic informed The Ardmoreite that the establishment had been subtly working within the Southern Tech name for the remaining 5 years. The SOTC name become no longer most effective long, however shared an acronym with a number of country wide organizations and schools, which ended in confusion. The shortening of names throughout the state by other institutions, reminiscent of Tulsa Tech, Metro Tech and Pontotoc Tech, also performed a role in the new name.
"After huge research and polling of scholars, workforce and taxpayers, tech facilities throughout the state have begun altering their names to consist of their beginning plus 'tech,'" the unencumber says of the change.
The identify exchange has been adopted for advertising purposes, at the moment, notwithstanding the school plans to make a formal change soon. The Southern Tech name has already been average nomenclature for the establishment in press releases and on its social media retailers. The Southern Tech name has additionally been labor ed into branding initiatives, with pointers of the brand new name being labored into the 50 yr occasion.
the press unlock says the faculty hopes to embrace the name trade and continue to supply services to enviornment college students, adults and tax payers.
"while our identify is altering, our mission will remain the same," the liberate says. "Southern Tech will proceed to present excellent working towards, wonderful coursework and fierce dedication to our college students and shoppers (and taxpayers, which has resulted in a drastic enlargement from a two building campus 50 years ago to eleven buildings these days. As our campus has grown our name has persisted to reduce.
"No greater lengthy names, no extra difficult acronyms-just simplicity and great at its most advantageous. we are: Southern Tech."
