GNTC To Host Move On When Ready New Student Orientations At All 6 Campuses

  • Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) will hold face-to-face orientations in July for high school students participating in the Move On When Ready (MOWR) Dual Enrollment Program.

The MOWR orientations will last approximately 1-2 hours and are only for high school students who are enrolled in the MOWR program at Georgia Northwestern. These sessions are separate from the orientations for new GNTC students.

Attending a Move On When Ready orientation session is not mandatory, but is encouraged. Registration is required prior to taking part in a MOWR orientation.

Georgia’s Move On When Ready Dual Enrollment Program allows qualified high school students to maximize their education and career training by taking courses that earn college and high school credit at the same time.

Any student in an eligible Georgia high school or home study program who has achieved required scores on the college placement exam, are eligible to take part in the MOWR program.

Placement tests for the MOWR program are provided at area high schools. Students that haven’t taken the placement exam can contact their high school counselor or a member of GNTC’s High School Initiatives staff.

All college coursework taken through the MOWR program is covered with MOWR funding. Students are not required to pay for tuition, college fees, or textbooks. The only fees students may be responsible for are course-specific fees determined by the college.

For three consecutive years, GNTC has had the largest number of MOWR students out of all of the technical colleges in the state of Georgia according to the “High School Collaborative Enrollment: Academic Year 2016” report issued by the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG).

“Our growth is still over 30% from last spring to this spring and we had 3,038 students enrolled in Move On When Ready,” said Kristi Hart, director of High School Initiatives at GNTC. “These students have taken 32,880 credit hours.”

Many MOWR courses also offer students the opportunity to earn an industry certificate. This gives students the option of either entering the workforce upon graduation from high school or continuing their education at a TCSG or University System of Georgia college. Either way, they begin their selected career path with a head start.

Listed are the MOWR new student orientations showing (from left to right) the campus, location, date, and time of sessions.

  • Catoosa County Campus, Ringgold, July 11 at 5 p.m.
  • Floyd County Campus, Rome, July 13 at 5 p.m.
  • Gordon County Campus, Calhoun, July 13 at 11:30 a.m.
  • Whitfield Murray Campus, Dalton, July 11 at 11:30 a.m.
  • Walker County Campus, Rock Spring, July 12 at 1 p.m.

To register online go to https://ganorthwestern.webex.com, click on event calendar tab, and choose one of the MOWR orientations listed. For best results use a computer, instead of a smartphone or tablet, to register online.

GNTC’s High School Initiatives staff may be contacted via email at mowr@gntc.edu, or by phone at 706 295-6865 or 706 272-2963.

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