HEROES, LEADERS & CRAFTSMEN

Congratulations to Melanie Jones, Allied Health Administrative Assistant, on being selected to attend and successfully completing the FBI Little Rock Collegiate Academy! She received first hand insight from special agents on how the FBI operates and learned what she needed to do to begin her career as an FBI agent. She also gets to go […]

Join us for the 10th Annual Child Abuse Awareness Event on Thursday, April 30! It will be held in the lobby of the Administration Building on the Pocahontas campus and will begin at 12:00 p.m. This event is open to the public. 💙Wear blue to show your support for Child Abuse Awareness Month! 👚Phi Theta […]

Black River Technical College’s (BRTC) Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) chapter inducted 23 new members on Tuesday, April 21. Eight inductees attended the ceremony with family and friends to receive their honor of induction. Students inducted were Aurbrey Arnett of Walnut Ridge, Ashley Banks of Corning, Cooper Carter of Salem, Lauren Chester of Pocahontas, Alaric Coleman […]

Black River Technical College (BRTC) student Johnathan Cummins recently attended the Arkansas Community Colleges (ACC) Student Leadership Academy in Little Rock at the State Capitol. Cummins was accompanied by Mary Anderson, Director of Admissions, and Erin Kerley-Mathews, Admissions Counselor. Students who attend the leadership academy sessions receive training in leadership, government process, communications, and critical […]

On Friday, April 10, Black River Technical College (BRTC) hosted over 50 Marshallese students from Pocahontas High School. Students got to hear from Erin Kerley-Mathews, academic counselor, and Beth Davis, director of career, technical, and concurrent education, about all of the Career and Technical Center (CTC) programs they could enroll in, as well as the […]

Black River Technical College (BRTC) hosted the 3rd Annual ARC @ The Armory welding competition for BRTC traditional and career and technical center (CTC) students on Thursday, April 9. This event included welding teams from BRTC, Rector, and Northeast Arkansas Career and Technical Center (NEACTC). The teams competed in a 3-hour, timed event that required […]

Paragould High School (PHS) juniors and seniors now have access to concurrent credit options at Black River Technical College (BRTC). The new addition builds off of an existing partnership between BRTC and PHS that gave juniors and seniors early career training and opportunities through BRTC’s Career and Technical Center. Now, students have the option to […]

The National Rifle Association (NRA) has selected Black River Technical College (BRTC) to be 1 of only 4 affiliated colleges in the United States to offer “short-term gunsmithing courses to aspiring gunsmiths.” The other three colleges are located in Colorado, North Carolina, and Oklahoma. BRTC houses Arkansas’s only gunsmithing program. An NRA designation makes the […]