South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) and the South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) Foundation are proud of the many individuals who have enrolled, attended, graduated, and prospered after taking advantage of the workforce education offered here over the past 78 years. They are the “Doers & Makers” in our communities today.
The SGTC Foundation will hosting its 27th annual “TechForce” fund-raising drive, September 14th – 25th to provide additional help for academically deserving and financially disadvantaged students who are learning workforce education skills that will enable them to begin careers and become “Doers & Makers” today and tomorrow.
Many have heard the term “Movers and Shakers,” but it’s the “Doers & Makers” who really get the job done. At South Georgia Technical College, current and future students learn hands-on skills, in high-demand fields, that build a future with real opportunities, in less time, and without student debt. Your support of the SGTC Foundation provides the assistance the students, the college, and the communities we serve need to make this happen. SGTC has a 100% job placement rate for graduates.
To demonstrate how valuable the SGTC workforce education can be, the SGTC Foundation would like to spotlight several SGTC alumni who may have gotten their start here as a first-time student, attended continuing education classes, graduated, earned additional degrees, and have returned or never left and work here now giving back to the current and future generations of “Doers & Makers!”
Eulish Kinchens, Vice President of Student Affairs, is one of the SGTC “Doers & Makers,” who came to South Georgia Tech after graduating from Tri-County High School. She lived on-campus in the same housing that she now oversees as the Vice President of Student Affairs. She enrolled in the Business Office Technology program.
She worked as an office assistant at Cooper & Lamberth Law Office in Americus while she attended classes. Her attention to detail and strong work ethics helped her land a work study position in the SGTC Student Affairs office. She turned that work study job into the beginnings of a career that has spanned over two and a half decades at South Georgia Tech.
Kinchens was hired as a Registrar Assistant and worked in that role for 14 years after her first graduation. During that time, she earned her associate degree in Business Administrative Technology and began a family. She moved to the Advancement office in 2014 and was employed as the Resource Development/Marketing Department Assistant through 2016. During that time, she was able to earn a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from DeVry University.
With that four-year degree in hand, Kinchens was able to apply to become the SGTC Registrar. Then in 2019, she was promoted from Registrar to the Vice President of Student Affairs to oversee the department where she began her career at SGTC as a student worker.
The educational and professional career she began at SGTC has helped not only shape her future but also her family’s. Her daughter, Samiya K’Lynn Kinchens, graduated from Clayton State University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree and has passed her RN license. She is working at a hospital in Atlanta.
Kinchens father, Charlie Jones, Jr., attended classes at SGTC twice. Her brother, Philip Deon Jones, also took classes at South Georgia Tech twice and his son, Demarrion Jones, is a 2024 Barbering graduate. The choice to attend SGTC for Kinchens and her immediate family members as well as many other family members have help make several generations of “Doers & Makers.”
The SGTC TechForce 2026 annual fund drive is designed to help raise over $250,000 for scholarships and grants for academically deserving and financially disadvantaged students, provide the use of textbooks at no cost for all students, state of the art simulator for the Commercial Truck Driving simulator, and help support renovations and expansion of the James S. Peters Life and Learning Center. Every dollar donated for TechForce will be matched dollar for dollar by local, state, and federal grants.
To apply at SGTC, visit www.southgatech.edu. To help support the SGTC Foundation TechForce drive, donations can be made out to the SGTC Foundation, P.O. Box 6102, Americus, Georgia, 31709 or contact SGTC Foundation Executive Director and SGTC Vice President of Institutional Advancement Su Ann Bird at sbird@southgatech.edu or 229-931-2248.
