With founding president Norman Myers at the head, Ozarks Technical Community College got its start in September 1991 with 1,198 students in Springfield. Under his administration ending with his mid-2006 retirement, the school grew to about 9,000 students, from 35 full-time staff to 385 employees and from a $1.5 million operating budget to $35.5 million. Myers oversaw more than $40 million in campus development. The push for affordable secondary education via OTC has proved fruitful for southwest Missouri. In a study performed by Moscow, Ind.-based Economic Modeling Specialists Inc., OTC – which now has 13,000 students – was shown to have an annual economic impact of nearly $212 million.
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