ChattState in the News

The holiday season is packed with extra obligations, but several local theater companies can offer a break from the hustle and bustle.

Call it a Christmas mashup

The dental assisting program at Chattanooga State Community College will host an information session on Dec. 6, at 5:30 p.m. on the second floor of the Health Science Center in room 2028. Attendance is required for anyone planning to enroll in the program in the fall semester.

Jody L. Hancock, associate professor and director of diagnostic medical sonography programs at Chattanooga State Community College, and 2012 cardiovascular sonography graduate Tonya Epperson, placed first in the sonographer presentation competition at the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography (SDMS) Annual Conference in Seattle. Ms. Hancock and Ms. Epperson’s research abstract will be published in the Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography.

Seventy-two Chattanooga State Community College students were inducted into the Alpha Beta Mu Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa (PTK), the International Honor Society of the Two-Year College. PTK has recognized academic excellence in the two-year college since 1918. All students inducted attend classes on the main campus, the Center for Education & Human Services on Lee Highway as well as the Kimball, Dayton, and Sequatchie/Bledsoe sites.

What: "City of Angels."

Kim Smith had a full day at Chattanooga State on Saturday. She got there well before the 1 p.m. softball scrimmage to make sure things were lined up for that and the 2 p.m. basketball doubleheader, and she went back and forth between the two campus facilities until basketball was done and she could take softball Wall of Fame honoree Charmaine Johns to dinner.

Mary Kamuiru was chosen from a pool of 14 nominees out of the more than 2,000 Tennessee Technology Center students as Chattanooga State Community College's Outstanding Student of the Year.

Executive Women International (EWI) of Chattanooga contributed a $6,000 scholarship to Chattanooga State Community College. Since chartering in 1987, EWI of Chattanooga has contributed more than $170,000 to scholarships at area schools. The scholarships are specially designed for single mothers.

"Bridging the Pharmacy Gap: Navigating Pharmacy Resources for the Uninsured and Underinsured," a pharmacy access forum, will be held in the Health Science Building at Chattanooga State Community College Nov. 6 and 7.

The changing face and focus of education were experienced by the Rotary Club of Cleveland Tuesday. Keri Randolph, director of learning for the Southeast Tennessee STEM Innovation Hub, led the Rotarians in an exercise to compare new learning styles with those most of the audience experienced in school.

The number of community college students is expected to surpass the number of students enrolled at four-year universities for the first time in the South. Community college enrollment has grown from about 500,000 in 1970 to 2.8 million in 2010, according to the Southern Regional Education Board. Four-year college enrollment has grown from 1.2 million to 2.8 million over the same period.

In recent years American workers have reluctantly gained a forced familiarity with the discouraging new vocabulary of these hazardous economic times. "Skills mismatch," "hiring freeze," "outsourcing," "underemployment" and other such words and phrases have become watchwords for a workforce that in less than a generation has tumbled from productivity and job security to declining wages and widespread job insecurity.

The Chattanooga State Foundation has received a gift of $500 from Thompson Engineering to fund scholarships for students enrolled in Engineering Technology programs.

The entire history of the Chattanooga State Community College softball program has been a golden era, but the actual Golden era just started.

Troy Hall earned more than $100,000 a year as a construction supervisor before the recession five years ago halted most commercial building projects and forced the 48-year-old builder to find a new career.

East Ridge's next veterinarian or architect, Bailey Crittenden, might never have had a class with Red Bank's next lawyer, Dajanae Williams, or very many of the other 73 freshmen in their inaugural class, were it not for the method by which they were chosen for Hamilton County's new STEM (Science-Technology-English-Math) High School.

AREA203 Digital presented a $100,000 check to the students and faculty of the Hamilton County STEM School at its grand opening celebration Monday.

U. S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis commends Chattanooga State Community College for helping to put people back to work.

The inaugural Chattanooga State Community College “Dinner of Firsts” will be held on Thursday at the Chattanoogan Hotel to honor first generation college students.

“You all have the winning ticket here,” she said, about the program that’s aimed at assuring the safety of nuclear plants and other systems.

U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis spoke at Chattanooga State Wednesday about potential job growth in the area.

U. S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis commends Chattanooga State Community College for helping to put people back to work. She toured the campus today to see the programs that a $3 million federal grant will support.

U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis said in Chattanooga on Wednesday that the nation’s jobs outlook is “on the right track,” but there’s a lot more work to do. Solis, at Chattanooga State Community College to unveil a $3 million training grant, declined to talk about new jobs figures that beat analysts’ expectations but are barely enough to cut the jobless rate.

After eight years and hundreds of students helped with reading, writing and high-school equivalency diplomas, La Plaza Comunitaria is looking for a new home. Chattanooga State Community College had housed the local Plaza, with more than 100 students per year, since 2004. Now college officials said it’s time for the program to get broader community support that really meets students’ needs.

A half-day event at Chattanooga State Community College will offer information for veterans on education, small business development, housing and veterans services.

Sophomore Ben Fischer wants to pursue psychology. His older brother, UTC senior Will Fischer, dreams of opening his own business after he gets his accounting degree.

Grove Street Settlement House (GSSH) in partnership with the Human Services Specialist program at Chattanooga State Community College is hosting the seventh annual Social Justice Retreat on Friday, Oct. 5, beginning at 10 a.m. at Grace Episcopal Church.

Math is a black hole for many struggling college students. Whether they major in business, biochemistry or behavioral science, many students find college math requirements trap them in a spiral of failure nearly from the moment they step on campus.

• Veterans Outreach Event from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday at the Humanities Auditorium on the Chattanooga State campus. U.S. Army Gen. Burwell “BB” Bell will speak. The Mobile Vet Center will be on site from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event is presented by Chattanooga State Community College, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Small Business Administration and Tennessee Small Business Development Center. Call 423-756-8668 to register.

It's not your father's workplace any more---or your mother's. To succeed today takes a lot more education and training, even if its not a college degree.

The U. S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announce an event for local veterans featuring the Mobile Vet Center. This free event takes place on the main campus of Chattanooga State in the Humanities Auditorium on Sept. 27, from 7:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Attendance is limited to the first 350 veterans who register. Free parking will be available in the Center for Engineering, Technology, Arts and Sciences (CETAS), formerly the Olan Mills Warehouse, parking lot.

Distinguished author and lecturer, Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, will speak at Chattanooga State Community College in the Humanities Auditorium on Sept. 19, at 10 a.m. The topic of Rainie’s address is In the Land of the Networked.

Shannon Wideman was one of two women among the 51 Wacker employees who graduated from 12 months of training Monday at the Wacker Institute at Chattanooga State Community College.

A group of senior chemical operators from Wacker (VAH'-kur) Polysilicon is returning to East Tennessee after six months of training with counterparts in Germany.

The Howard E. "Rocky" Stone Humanitarian Award was presented to Bea Lyons of Chattanooga, during the recent annual 2012 Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) banquet in Providence, R.I.

"Support our STEM Initiative" is the message that Tracey Carisch brought to the Brainerd/East Brainerd Chamber of Commerce meeting Tuesday morning. STEM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Adeptness in those skills has been identified as deficient from students coming out of the public school system in Tennessee, yet it is competency in these areas that businesses are seeking.

"Luck of the Draw," a completely improvised Broadway-style musical, opens tonight at Chattanooga State Community College.

Chattanooga State Community College announced the grand opening of the all-new Donald F. Andrews College Writing Center and Photography Gallery. The public is invited to the grand opening and dedication of the new center on August 20, 2-4 p.m., on the second floor of the Instructional Materials Center in room 201 on the main campus.

Tennessee's nursing job market has grown more competitive in recent years, health care experts say.

Chattanooga State Community College is pleased to announce that 28 Rhea County residents graduated from the College at the conclusion of the spring semester 2012.

Development is moving ahead quickly on Wacker Polysilicon’s new Bradley County plant—a project that will create as many as 3,000 construction jobs, leaders said Wednesday.

Amid a national movement in education to better prepare students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, the Tennessee Department of Education announces the opening of three new STEM-focused schools this year. The new programs are part of the Tennessee STEM Innovation Network, a collaboration between the department and the Battelle Memorial Institute.

In 2009, as the U.S. economy and new-car sales were in a joint meltdown, Volkswagen was deep into the construction of an all-new, $1 billion automotive factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee. This assembly plant, destined to produce the all-new 2012 Passat, was seen as a critical step in expanding Volkswagen's presence in the U.S. market -- even as that market struggled to stay above 10 million new-car sales in 2009 and 2010.

Chancellor John G. Morgan of the Tennessee Board of Regents announced the approval of three new academic programs. Effective fall 2012, Chattanooga State Community College will offer an associate of Fine Arts (A.F.A.) degree with an area of emphasis in Music; an associate of applied science (A.A.S.) degree in Health Sciences; and an associate of applied science (A.A.S.) degree in Criminal Justice with two areas of concentration, Corrections and Law Enforcement.

The Division of Nursing and Allied Health at Chattanooga State Community College will present a series of information sessions in August for anyone interested in pursuing a career in health care.

The first day at a new school is always a little nerve-wracking. But students at Hamilton County's new science, technology, engineering and math school will know most of their peers and teachers when school begins on Aug. 13.

Hamilton County School officials are hoping a $50,000 gift from Volkswagen will carry them through the home stretch of funding a new science, technology, engineering and math school, a process that has taken longer than they hoped.

The Tennessee Small Business Development Center will host a seminar entitled, “Selling to Mexico,” on Aug. 10, from 8:30 a.m.–1 p.m. The seminar will take place at the INCubator, at 100 Cherokee Boulevard. The cost is $59, which includes lunch.

Chattanooga State Community College will hold its third annual Family Fish Fry July 21 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Eighth-grade students from Lake Forest Middle School recently visited the 25,000- square-foot Wacker Institute at Chattanooga State.

Called the Car Mechatronics Program, the initiative involves training technicians to be skilled in all aspects of the body, mechanical and electrical and electronic systems in VW vehicles.

Chattanooga State Community College will hold its third annual Family Fish Fry in July on Saturday, July 21, from 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

MFG Chemical, Inc. President and CEO Charles E. Gavin has signed a letter to Chattanooga State President Dr. James L. Catanzaro in support of the work by the school to provide technically trained workers to the Chattanooga Area.

The Chattanooga Transportation Club presented a gift of $1,200 to the Chattanooga State Foundation to fund a Commercial Truck Driving Scholarship. The gift will be used to establish the Chattanooga Transportation Club Commercial Truck Driving Scholarship.

Chattanooga State Community College will start a new program in conjunction with Volkswagen Group of America Chattanooga Operations for the fall of 2012.

Retired tennis coach Betty Jones and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga softball coach Frank Reed were honored Friday night for outstanding accomplishments that included taking multiple Chattanooga State teams to national tournaments.

2011 Chattanooga State graduate Shawn Hiser is one of nine former and current Fine Arts students selected to have their work on display in the Tennessee Board of Regents Community College Art Gallery in Nashville.

Nearly 100 students at the Wacker Institute at Chattanooga State Community College have received conditional job offers for the new Wacker Polysilicon North America plant under construction in north Bradley County.

Following the success of the Automotive Mechatronics Program that began in 2010, Volkswagen Group of America Chattanooga Operations and the Tennessee Technology Center at Chattanooga State have announced another training program for the fall of 2012.

The Division of Nursing and Allied Health at Chattanooga State Community College will present a series of information sessions during the month of June for anyone interested in pursuing a career in the health care field.

Chattanooga State Community College plans to launch a pilot honors college that will allow some students to graduate with a bachelor's degree from a private school.

Nearly 100 students at the WACKER INSTITUTE at Chattanooga State Community College have received conditional job offers from WACKER POLYSILICON to date. This week another 13 students received offers from the company for chemical operator positions.

Getting picked as a floor coach for USA Basketball’s U18 National team tryouts was only the second biggest surprise in recent months for Chattanooga State coach Jay Price. The biggest surprise came last week, after he’d arrived at the Colorado Springs, Colo. training center for the U.S. Olympic team.

Public Education Foundation (PEF) is one of seven nonprofits in Tennessee awarded a $40,000 grant by the Tennessee College Access and Success Network (TCASN) to enhance year two of the SOAR Initiative.

The Engineering Technology Division at Chattanooga State Community College received an annual donation of $1,000 from the Chattanooga Engineers Club to fund a scholarship.

There are students at Chattanooga State Community College with grade-point averages and ACT scores high enough to enroll at essentially any school they want, but for one reason or another they choose to stay closer to home.

School is out for students, but Hamilton County teachers will be sharpening their literacy instructional skills at the third annual Scenic City Literacy Conference on the campus of Southern Adventist University in Collegedale on Wednesday and Thursday.

Chattanooga State pitcher Ashlety Czechner was the most valuable player of the national junior college softball tournament at St. George, Utah, won by the Lady Tigers over the weekend.

A couple of weeks ago, moviegoers put “The Avengers” into the record books with a $207 million opening weekend, the biggest ever. Worldwide, the Marvel superhero blockbuster is well on its way to raking in a billion dollars. For Chattanooga native Joel Gerlach and his family, staying to watch the credits for “The Avengers” on opening weekend was just as exciting as watching all the explosive action and whiz-bang special effects that unfurled in the movie itself.

The top-seeded Chattanooga State softball team rebounded from a 4-1 loss Friday to No. 2 seed Salt Lake Community College and won three games Saturday for the NJCAA Division I national championship.

The Chattanooga chapter of the Society of Women Engineers donated $600 for an engineering technology scholarship for a student at Chattanooga State Community College.

Chattanooga State catcher Chelsea Burgess tags out Salt Lake’s Meagan Neilson in the Lady Tigers’ 8-7 win that set up their 4-1 victory Saturday for the national championship.

The Chattanooga State softball team has proved it can be dominant, even against strong teams, as when it started this season with 10 consecutive wins in Nevada that included 7-2 victories over schools then ranked No. 1 and No. 9 in the country.

Top-ranked Chattanooga State is headed to the national junior college softball tournament at St. George, Utah, after defeating Walters State 2-0 on Wednesday afternoon and capture the Region VII tournament on its home field.

Wacker Polysilicon has identified about half of its workforce so far as it looks to reach the 650-employee mark within the next 18 months. Erika Burk, the plant's human resources director, said it has hired 220 people and extended offers to another 115.

After needing tying seventh-inning home runs on the way to victories Tuesday, top-seeded Chattanooga State finished off its TCCAA/Region VII softball tournament championship in relatively ho-hum fashion Wednesday.

Leaders with TVA gave Chattanooga State Community College $5,000 to pay for engineering tutors, which will help create a skilled workforce to support local companies.

Chattanooga State Community College will host the Tennessee Community College Athletic Association (TCCAA) and the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region VII Baseball and Softball Tournament. Community college teams from around the state will begin competing on Sunday at noon.

In a little less than three weeks on May 12, hundreds of Chattanooga residents, visitors from surrounding cities and states, as well as sponsor representatives from across the country will meet at Chattanooga State Community College for the 4th annual Walk4Hearing along the Chattanooga Riverwalk in support of the more than 36 million Americans with hearing loss.

Chattanooga State Community College will be hosting the graduation for the sixth class of the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT)-Trained Law Enforcement Officers on Friday, at 3 p.m.

Students from Chattanooga State Community College’s Tennessee Technology Center (TTC) excelled in their performance at the annual competition SkillsUSA held this week at the Chattanooga Trade and Convention Center.

The next segment of the Latino Awareness Series, 'Education and the Latino Community,' will be on May 21, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at East Lake Elementary at 3600 13th Ave. This will be the fourth installment in the Latino Awareness Series.

The Community Health Institute at Chattanooga State will host the “5th Annual Health, Fun, and Wellness Expo” Friday, April 27 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Health Science Center located on the Amnicola campus.

County Commissioner Warren Mackey will host a Career and Job Forum at the Orchard Knob Baptist Church on Thursday at 6 p.m.

Discovery Education has announced the launch of Discovery Education Higher Ed, a new digital content service specifically designed for community college instructors and students.

Employer hiring on college campuses this spring is highest for engineering and business and weakest in social services

Chattanooga State Community College offers the program in collaboration with the high school math teachers to teach a four-year math course for students who score below 19 on the ACT so they don't have to take remedial math.

John J. Spittler is introduced during a ceremony at Chattanooga State on Sunday to honor five Chattanoogans with the Four Chaplains Legion of Honor award. Dr. Jim Catanzaro, left, also received the award, along with the Rev. Dr. Paul McDaniel, Dr. Nell Mohney and the late Melvin Young.

Dr. Tony Donen has been named as the first principal of the new STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) High School that will be at Chattanooga State, Supt. Rick Smith announced Wednesday.

An engineer-turned-educator will lead Chattanooga’s new science, technology, engineering and math high school.

Interested parents and students are invited to attend the Middle College High School (MCHS) Preview Night this Thursday,at 6 p.m. in the Albright Ominplex building located on the main campus of Chattanooga State Community College.

Beside Yourself, a comedy performed by graduating students from Chattanooga State's Professional Actor Training Program, will be presented Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at the St. Andrews Center. Call 697-3246 for more information.

Chattanooga State Community College will host two presentations on Tuesday, by educational activist and innovator Fluke Fluker.

The deadline to apply for the new Chattanooga STEM School is fast approaching.

For the seventh straight year the Chattanooga Lookouts squared off with local junior college powerhouse Chattanooga State in a season opener exhibition contest and fo the sevdeth straight year walked away with a victory. This year the score was an all too close 1-0. Last year the Looks won the game 4-2.

The American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges recently held its statewide conference at Chattanooga State Community College.

Chattanooga State Community College announced the selection of two staff members and four faculty members as the recipients of the 2011-2012 Excellence Awards.

Amanda Steele, a student at Chattanooga State Community College, has been named a 2012 Coca-Cola Community College Academic Team Silver Scholar.

Chattanooga State Community College announced a unique and innovative way for students to earn credit hours toward graduation. Maymester is a condensed and accelerated semester scheduled between the end of the spring semester and the beginning of the summer term at Chattanooga State.

He's more at home in spikes and a cap tugged tightly over his forehead, but Chattanooga State Community College baseball coach Greg Dennis is also the school's popular social dance instructor.

Charged with the task of renovating a 17,000-square-foot space into a fully operating STEM school by Aug. 10, local officials swung sledgehammers into sheetrock walls inside the former Olan Mills Building Tuesday morning.

Chattanooga State Community College is expanding its community halfway around the globe to include Taiwan.

The new local STEM high school will open in August with a ninth grade class of 75 students and will be located on the campus of Chattanooga State Community College, officials said Tuesday.

Hamilton County is poised to strengthen its education system in the coming years, with the implementation of state reforms and the opening of a new school centered on science, technology, engineering and math, according to local education leaders.

A big announcement is expected Monday from Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam that could change education in Hamilton County and other surrounding school districts.

Tim Jennings has a problem few employers have had since the recession hit -- he has more jobs than he can fill. Metro Boiler Tube Co. had to slash its workforce by about 40 percent a few years back. Now the company is in full-on growth mode, and Jennings can't find enough welders to fill the Ringgold plant's three shifts.

Internationally-distinguished theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku will visit Chattanooga State Community College on Thursday, April 5.

The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), on this the first day of the regular softball season, has ranked Chattanooga State Community College’s Lady Tigers softball team number one.

An exhibit of artwork by local homeless and other nontraditional artists will be on display in the Augusta R. Kolwyck Library on the main campus of Chattanooga State Community College beginning Tuesday, March 13 and continuing for a month.

Hamilton County is making plans to move ahead with a high school focused on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) this fall at Chattanooga State Community College.

While some manufacturers across the United States are struggling to find skilled workers, Chattanooga State Community College and Volkswagen are working to train local residents.

An announcement is expected next week on the launch of a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) School by the Hamilton County Schools on the campus of Chattanooga State Community College campus.

Chattanooga State Community College’s Career Services and Counseling Center will hold its annual job fair on March 15 in the gymnasium between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Caitlin Moffitt, assistant professor of civil engineering technology at Chattanooga State Community College, received the Gen. Robert Neyland Young Engineer of the Year award.

The Division of Nursing and Allied Health at Chattanooga State Community College will present a series of information sessions during the month of March for anyone interested in pursuing a career in the healthcare field.

Cleveland State Community College and Chattanooga State Community College will be co-hosting information sessions about the Veterinary Technology Program at Chattanooga State.

CNN Money reported this week that some U.S. manufacturers are searching for skilled workers outside the United States because they can't find them in America.

Dr. Arthur Benjamin, a highly-credentialed mathematician who is also a masterfully-skilled magician, will speak at Chattanooga State Community College on Friday, March 30.

Chattanooga audiences will have an opportunity this weekend to witness what the dance is really all about during an intimate evening of improvisational and traditional Middle Eastern dance in the C.C. Bond Auditorium at Chattanooga State Community College.

WACKER POLYSILICON’s lead chemical operators—who have been training for six months at the WACKER INSTITUTE at Chattanooga State Community College—leave for Germany this week. At WACKER’s Burghausen plant, these 51 employees will train with their professional counterparts for six months.

An investment in Bradley County that turned out to be the single-largest capital project in the United States by private industry almost never happened.

Beth Keylon-Randolph’s Chattanooga State softball team returned home on Sunday from the Gulf Coast Beach Classic games with a 7-1 won loss mark, moving their overall season record to 22-2.

A nationally acclaimed expert on urban public education will speak at Chattanooga State Community College at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in room 1085 of the Health Science Center, 4501 Amnicola Highway.

The Chattanooga Native Plant & Wildflower Group is hosting the first annual native plant symposium “Chattanooga’s Native Beauty: Gardening with Native Plants” on Saturday, March 10, from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. in the Chattanooga State Community College Humanities Theatre.

Rhea County's new bid to boost its prospects could be a trip Back to the Future. Coal was king in there more than a century ago. The Dayton Coal and Iron Company provided more than 450 jobs and mined more than 200,000 tons of coke-grade bituminous every year.

Wacker Chemical is teaming with three area high schools to boost the studies of future chemists. For a select number of students, the Wacker Institute School of Chemical Science is working through Chattanooga State Technical Community College to bring courses to Ooltewah and Soddy-Daisy in Hamilton County and Walker Valley in Bradley County.

Dr. Christopher Emdin, a professor of science education at Teachers College, Columbia University and a nationally-acclaimed expert on urban public education, will speak at Chattanooga State Community College on Wednesday, Feb. 29.

Students at the WACKER Institute at Chattanooga State Community College have received conditional job offers from WACKER Polysilicon for chemical operator positions.

Wacker officials say that injecting $300 million more into its Bradley County plant will hike capacity by 20 percent, and the opening Wednesday of a training center will ensure skilled workers for its factory.

The center’s development would involve a partnership with local entities, such as the Rhea County Chamber of Commerce, the Rhea Economic and Tourism Council and Chattanooga State — Dayton.

The Cleveland State men’s basketball team upset Chattanooga State 78-69 in TCCAA play Saturday in Chattanooga, after the host Lady Tigers won 76-58 despite trailing at halftime.

Bradley County Schools' Career and Technical Education Director Arlette Robinson presented a proposal to the board from Wacker Polysilicon for a Wacker Institute School of Chemical Science at Walker Valley High School.

A new era in technical training officially began Wednesday morning when the Wacker Institute at Chattanooga State Community College was opened to the public for the first time.

President and CEO of Wacker Chemical Corporation Dr. Ingomar Kovar could barely contain his excitement at Wednesday morning's grand opening of the pilot plant and training facility, the Wacker Institute at Chattanooga State Community College.

Neither President, of the school that houses it, or the company whose name it bears, has to say much to convey what it means to open the Wacker Institute at Chattanooga State Community College.

Wacker officials say that injecting $300 million more into its Bradley County plant will hike capacity by 20 percent, and the opening Wednesday of a training center will ensure skilled workers for its factory.

WACKER POLYSILICON, an international chemical company that specializes in the production of polysilicon (a key ingredient for solar power panels), opened the innovative new WACKER INSTITUTE today in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Wacker officials this morning marked the opening of a $5 million pilot training plant at Chattanooga State Community College. The training facility is where Wacker employees will learn the high-tech processes needed to run the $1.8 billion facility now under construction.

The Wacker Institute, a pilot plant and training facility at Chattanooga State Community College, officially opened to the public Wednesday.

Chattanooga State Community College will host the grand opening of the Wacker Institute on Wednesday from 2-4 p.m.

Chattanooga State’s Office of Multicultural Services announced a series of activities for Black History Month designed to draw attention to the cultural and historical contributions of African Americans.

The Division of Nursing and Allied Health at Chattanooga State Community College will present a series of information sessions during the month of February for anyone interested in pursuing a career in the healthcare field.

The Chattanooga State Community College Heath Institute is hosting a free Heart Smart Saturday: Putting Your Heart First event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 4 in the campus's Health Science Center.

The Chattanooga State Humanities Department, with support from the Chattanooga State Foundation, will host the first annual installment of its “Writers@Work” series, featuring Terry Kay, author of To Dance with the White Dog, April 9-13.

A dozen construction cranes reach upward at the sprawling Wacker polysilicon plant site and tower over a rural piece of Bradley County landscape.

In 2002, Chattanooga State Community College received nearly two-thirds of its financial support from the state, with student tuition and fees making up most of the remainder.

Black History Month Kickoff: Chattanooga State Community College cafeteria, 10 a.m., free.

During the fall semester, Chattanooga State Community College’s nursing students visited several community agencies while completing the psychiatric rotation portion of their training.

The Wacker Institute, a $5 million pilot plant and training facility at Chattanooga State Community College, opens its doors to the public next month. The community is invited to a grand opening celebration on Wednesday, Feb. 8, from 2-4 p.m. at 4325 Amnicola Highway.

Back in 1981, radio personality Magic Crutcher had a choice to make after high school. She was in the Upward Bound program, which offers students a jump-start on college by introducing them to career opportunities. Her first choice of classes, dance, was unavailable, and she was left to choose between a sewing class or a radio class. Sewing was out, so she signed up for radio. It proved to be a life-changing decision.

A $5 million pilot plant and training facility for Wacker Polysilicon employees—the Wacker Institute—opens its doors next month at Chattanooga State Community College.

Marvelyn Brown, an African American author and HIV/AIDS activist, will speak at Chattanooga State Community College about her life as an HIV positive female on Wednesday, Feb. 1.

Here is the Chattanooga State Community College Fine Arts calendar for the spring.

During the past 10 years, Isaac Duncan's sculpture has evolved from social-based investigations to the manipulation of space and form.

At Thursday's event, dental hygienists from Chattanooga State Community College and three local dentists will provide dental care, including some tooth extractions.

Chattanooga State Technical Community College will offer a class on Art Direction In Film starting January 18th, 2012.

Already the size of 17 football fields, Amazon’s Chattanooga distribution center is about to get bigger.

The STEM school could open in August 2012 on the campus of Chattanooga State Community College if the state approves a grant of about $1.8 million, which would come from federal Race to the Top dollars. The school system will receive word on whether the funding is approved in January.