Student Life
Alber Student Center
The Alber Student Center is a 25,000 square foot facility on the Marion Campus. The Student Center features a fitness center, game room, gymnasium, climbing wall, and student lounge open to all students, faculty and staff of Marion Technical College and Ohio State Marion. The Student Center also has a Veteran’s Lounge for all student veterans on the Marion Campus. The Alber Student Center is also the home of Marion Campus Recreation and the Student ID office.
With your student ID, you can check out volleyballs, basketballs, disk golf disks, billiards, ping pong, Xbox games and footballs.
Marion Campus Recreation
Marion Campus Recreation is committed to providing excellent programs, services, facilities, and equipment to enrich the learning experience. We also want to foster a lifetime appreciation of wellness, recreational sports, and activities among our students, faculty, and staff. All Marion Campus Recreation programs are open to Marion Technical College and Ohio State Marion students, faculty and staff.
Marion Campus Recreation organizes a variety of activities for students of all ages, including family movies, concerts, lectures, trips, art shows, and mid-day coffeehouse performances. Activities planned each year often depend on the individual interests of MTC students. If you have new ideas or questions concerning student activities, contact the Student Activities Office.
As an MTC student, you and your family can participate in all intramural sports programming, which includes flag football, soccer, softball, coed volleyball, basketball, racquetball, and badminton. Contact the Marion Campus Recreation office for further details.
Esports
Got Game? Esports is a video game-based sport, most commonly taking the form of a collaborative, organized multiplayer competition. As a member of NACE, the National Association of Collegiate Esports, MTC is offering a competitive and exciting intercollegiate athletic program.
NSLS
The National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS) is the nation’s largest honor society whose mission is to build leaders who make a better world. Top students are nominated by their college to become members. Each member comes together to identify and achieve their goals, in addition to building their leadership skills, and receives a lifetime membership. NSLS offers life-changing lectures from the nation’s leading presenters and a community with like-minded, success-oriented individuals who come together and help one another succeed. Benefits of becoming a member includes, but are not limited to, scholarships and awards; exclusive on- campus events; employer recruitment through an online job bank; and discounts on computers, textbooks, grad school prep courses, insurance and more. To learn more about NSLS, contact the chapter advisor, at (740) 389-4636 ext. 4105 or manleyc@mtc.edu.
Phi Theta Kappa
MTC sponsors a chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, an international honor society that recognizes the academic accomplishments of two-year college students and provides opportunities for personal growth through programming centered on scholarship, leadership, service, and fellowship. The mission of Phi Theta Kappa is to recognize academic achievement of college students and to provide opportunities for them to grow as scholars and leaders.
Phi Theta Kappa is the largest honor society in the world with more than 3.5 million members in the United States and 10 sovereign nations. The local MTC chapter, Beta Nu Pi, was founded in March 2005. This group regularly host student activities and complete service projects on campus and within the local community. They have also participated in international conventions and regional planning initiatives.
Like all Phi Theta Kappa chapters, membership in Beta Nu Pi is based on academic achievement and opens the door to many scholarship opportunities. After each semester concludes, membership invitations are emailed to all MTC students who meet the criteria of having completed 12 credit hours and maintained at least a 3.5 GPA. For more information about PTK, please contact the chapter advisor at (740) 389-4636 ext. 4169 or handa@mtc.edu.
Student Ambassadors
The Student Ambassador Scholarship Program is designed to award high-achieving, current MTC students with scholarships of up to $1,000 (up to, but not exceeding, the student’s cost of attendance). In return, those students selected will serve approximately 50 hours per semester as a Student Ambassadors of MTC. In this role they will assist the Office of Admissions by providing campus tours to prospective students and their families; calling prospective students; assisting with MTC’s social media presence; assisting with recruitment, orientation, and other campus events; representing MTC at occasional off-campus events; and organizing and participating in a Student Ambassador charity drive. In conjunction with the financial assistance this program provides, it will also develop students’ leadership and professional skills by facilitating their active engagement with campus events and activities.
Applications are available at the Financial Aid Office and are due in early May of each year. To apply for this scholarship program, applicants must meet the minimum requirements listed below:
Minimum Requirements
3.0+ cumulative GPA at the time of submitting Ambassador application
Completed more than 12 credit hours at MTC
Be enrolled for at least 6 credits per semester through the fall and spring semesters
Letter of recommendation from MTC faculty or staff member
Current FAFSA on file
Must have a positive attitude about MTC
Commit to Friday mornings/early afternoons for admission events
Comfortable with social media applications such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
Willingness to interact with the public to promote MTC
Willingness to work in teams on for event planning and promotion