Tag: Great Oaks Career Campuses

  • Great Oaks Career Campuses is sponsoring a free Career Exploration Workshop for middle schoolers and parents

    Great Oaks Career Campuses is sponsoring a free Career Exploration Workshop for middle schoolers and parents

    Parents play a critical role in helping their children plan for the future. With the right knowledge, they can prepare their children to find careers that interest them and education that leads to those careers.


    To give parents effective tools, Great Oaks Career Campuses is sponsoring a free Career Exploration Workshop for middle schoolers and parents. At this workshop, parents will learn tips and gain resources to help teens explore their interests and set career goals. Meanwhile, students will take career interest surveys and learn to interpret the results in order to set goals for high school, college, and beyond.

    The free session will be held at each of the four Great Oaks Career Campuses:

    Wednesday, November 20 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. at Live Oaks Career Campus, 5956 Buckwheat Road, Milford 45150

    Thursday, November 14 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Laurel Oaks Career Campus, 300 Oak Drive, Wilmington 45177

    “Being successful in college and in life isn’t an accident,” said Great Oaks Career Exploration Specialist Sarah Taylor. “It takes thought, research and planning—and planning now will put you on the path to success.”

    For more information, contact Sarah Taylor at taylors@greatoaks.com or 513.612.5764.  To register for a Career Exploration Workshop, go to https://www.greatoaks.com/workshop/

  • An invitation by President/CEO Harry Snyder to visit your Great Oaks Career Campuses

    An invitation by President/CEO Harry Snyder to visit your Great Oaks Career Campuses

    This is a thank you, and an invitation to see your schools.

     

    Harry Snyder is the President/CEO of the Great Oaks Career Campuses

    by Harry Snyder, 

    First, the thanks: In November, you agreed to renew our only local funding—a 2.7-mill levy which provides career-technical programs for high school students across southwest Ohio. We’re grateful for your support of our students, our outstanding instructors and staff, and the programs that are preparing thousands of young men and women for college and careers each year.

    During January, each of the four Great Oaks campuses holds an open house. This open house gives future students and parents the opportunity to see the labs, talk with instructors, meet local business leaders in the career fields that interest them, and learn more about how to earn professional certifications while finishing high school.

    Our community has helped create success for nearly 50 years at Great Oaks, and these open houses are a chance to see the schools you support.

    I invite you to join us. Our community has helped create success for nearly 50 years at Great Oaks, and these open houses are a chance to see the schools you support. Our students work in classrooms and labs using the technology and equipment that professionals in their field use. They graduate with the ability and credentials to begin a career—or to give them a head start in college. From learning to program robotic manufacturing equipment to handling surgical tools and technology in a sterile setting to building new structures to caring for large and small animals and more, students in southwest Ohio have unique opportunities here.

    These opportunities are provided by you. Come and walk the halls and see our students’ future.

    The open house dates and times are:

    Thursday, January 24
    5:00 – 7:00 pm
    Diamond Oaks Career Campus
    6375 Harrison Avenue
    Cincinnati, OH 45247

    Thursday, January 31
    5:30 – 7:30 pm
    Laurel Oaks Career Campus
    300 Oak Drive
    Wilmington, OH  45177

    Wednesday, January 30
    5:00 – 7:00 pm
    Live Oaks Career Campus
    5956 Buckwheat Road
    Milford, OH  45050

    Thursday, January 31
    5:00 – 7:00 pm
    Scarlet Oaks Career Campus
    300 Scarlet Oaks Drive
    (use 3254 E. Kemper Road for GPS directions)
    Cincinnati, OH 45241

  • Great Oaks Career Campuses qualify for Auditor of State Award with Distinction

    Great Oaks Career Campuses qualify for Auditor of State Award with Distinction

    Columbus, Ohio – A recent financial audit of Great Oaks Career Campuses (Hamilton County) by Auditor of State Dave Yost’s office has returned a clean audit report. The joint vocational school district’sexcellent record keeping has qualifieditfor the Auditor of State Award with Distinction.

    “Accurate bookkeeping enables school districts to focus on their chief duty – education,” Auditor Yost said. “Great Oaks’ clean audit demonstrates its commitment to both its students and taxpayers.”

    The Auditor of State Award with Distinction is presented to local governments and school districts upon the completion of a financial audit. Entities that receive the award meet the following criteria of a “clean” audit report:

    • The entity must file timely financial reports with the Auditor of State’s office in the form of a CAFR (Comprehensive Annual Financial Report);
    • The audit report does not contain any findings for recovery, material citations, material weaknesses, significant deficiencies, Single Audit findings or questioned costs;
    • The entity’s management letter contains no comments related to:

    o   Ethics referrals

    o   Questioned costs less than $10,000

    o   Lack of timely report submission

    o   Reconciliation

    o   Failure to obtain a timely Single Audit

    o   Findings for recovery less than $100

    o   Public meetings or public records

    • No other financial or other concerns exist that involve eligible entity.