OFTC Announces 2025 Rick Perkins Award Nominees

OFTC's 2025 Rick Perkins Award (RPA) Nominees

OFTC — The Rick Perkins Award (RPA) program seeks to honor the Technical College System of Georgia’s (TCSG) most outstanding instructors who make significant contributions to technical education through innovation and leadership.  

These 5 Oconee Fall Line Technical College (OFTC) instructors have been nominated by students & peers and will compete in a series of interviews and a speech presentation to be named OFTC’s 2025 RPA Winner & Instructor of the Year.

  • Gerald Burten, Commercial Truck Driving (CTD) Instructor, OFTC Instructional Center
  • Kerrie Fountain, Practical Nursing Instructor, Dublin Campus
  • Scott Gray, Practical Nursing Instructor, Dublin Campus
  • Jeff Partridge, Welding Instructor, Jefferson County Center
  • Travolta Pullen, CTD Instructor, OFTC Instructional Center

The winner will be announced during the College’s staff development day on December 11, 2024. 

For more info about OFTC or the Rick Perkins Award program, visit the College’s website, OFTC.edu.

Watch the official announcement video here

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ABOUT OFTC  

The mission of Oconee Fall Line Technical College, a unit of the Technical College System of Georgia, is to contribute to the economic and workforce development of east central Georgia through quality technical and continuing education, adult education, and business and industry services. The College offers associate degrees, diplomas, technical certificates of credit, and non-credit certificates in a student-centered learning environment through traditional and distance education modes of delivery.