Pratt Community College welcomed more than two hundred graduates and their families to campus on Friday May 12, 2023. Two ceremonies were held at 1pm and 3pm.

PCC graduate Randi Hoffman walked in the 3pm Commencement ceremony with an Associate of Science degree in Biology...and then graduated from Skyline High School a few days later.

Hoffman began taking college courses through PCC’s College Start program to gather…

The Electrical Power Technology (EPT) lineman training program on the Pratt campus is full for the 2023-2024 academic year.

However, due to continued interest in the Dodge City and Wichita locations, an additional EPT tour date has been added for June 9th at 8:30am.

A tour of the facilities in Pratt with an EPT instructor is a mandatory part of the admissions process for each location.

Through our program, you will join a fellowship like no other and be…

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May 18, 2023

The Higher Learning Commission recently announced the recognition of several HLC Peer Corp members for awards at the Peer Corps Luncheon held in March during the 2023 HLC annual conference and Peer Corps Program at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.

Lisa Perez-Miller, Vice President of Students/Enrollment Management at Pratt Community College was awarded the Essential Leader Award. Perez-Miller is shown above, left with Patricia…

Trip write-up and photos provided by Wildlife Outfitting and Operations instructor Rocky Robinson.

Spring 2023

For the past couple months, the sophomore Guiding in the Outdoors class has been planning a backcountry hunting trip to the Gila National Forest in New Mexico. The Gila was one of the first wilderness areas established in the United States and totals roughly 3.3 million acres. The class went to pursue Merriam’s turkey, a high elevation bird primarily found in the western mountain regions of the United States.

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Have you heard the news? Pratt CC has a new student-led STEM club ! And they’re taking the middle school science circuit by storm teaching all about Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.

PCC students Bella Crowell, Marcus Pollard, Kailey Barnard, Max Moreno and Maddy Reeves traveled to Cunningham, KS to put on a science show for 4th, 5th and 6th graders along with PCC science faculty Paul Primrose, Jason Ghumm and Justin Maughan.

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ITC Great Plains is a large utility company in Kansas, operating power transmission infrastructures, serving parts of Kansas and Oklahoma.

They have long-recognized the quality of instruction and workforce preparation of students in the Electrical Power Technology (EPT) program based at Pratt Community College in Pratt, Kansas.

ITC Great Plains visits the Pratt campus every year to support the program in the form of rewarding scholarships to EPT students.

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A reception was held in the Riney Student Conference Center to honor Carol Ricke in her retirement after a total of 35 years as a Business instructor at Pratt Community College.

In addition to members of Carol's family and Pratt CC employees, there were several retired Pratt CC instructors in attendance, including four former business instructors Wanda Deen, Pat Gordon, Mary Gordon and Junnae Landry.

Kip Chambers, Pratt Higher Education Association (PHEA) President, presented Carol with flowers on behalf of PHEA. VP of Instruction Monette DePew also presented Carol…