OTC charter president announces retirement

Norman K. Myers told the college faculty and staff his plans Aug. 18, saying that retirement discussions with the board of trustees began in 2003. The board voted earlier this year not to extend Myers’ contract beyond this school year.

The new president will come at an important time for the university’s future: it broke ground Aug. 4 for a south campus in Ozark. The campus is expected to serve 2,000 students when it opens in 2007.

Myers has worked in education for 43 years – 32 years as a community college president, 15 of them at OTC. Under the Myers administration, OTC grew from 1,198 credit students in1991-92 to about 9,000 this year, from 35 full-time staff to 385 today and from a $1.5 million operating budget to $35.5 million. Myers has overseen more than $40 million in campus development.