Lanier Technical College annually appoints a Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) Student of the Year and a Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year. These awards are based on leadership, academic excellence, belief in technical education, and a passion for entering the workforce or workforce development. Each inductee is announced during the annual recognition event as part of the school's particpation in the state's Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) recognition efforts.
For this school year, Lanier officials have announced that Amanda Money is enrolled as a Radiologic Technology student and has been titled Lanier Tech’s 2025 GOAL Student of the Year. Also, officials are reporting that Michael Myers, the Program Director for Lanier Technical College’s Criminal Justice Program, has been named the 2025 Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year.
Amanda Money is enrolled as a Radiologic Technology student and has been titled Lanier Tech’s 2025 GOAL Student of the Year. GOAL, a statewide program for all 22 of TCSG’s Colleges, honors excellence in academics and leadership amongst their fellow cohort.
Michael Myers, The Program Director for Lanier Technical College’s Criminal Justice Program, has been named the 2025 Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year. Like GOAL, the Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year Award is a statewide program for all of TCSG’s 22 Colleges that aims to showcase outstanding instructors within the college system
Both Money and Myers will go on to compete against other regional technical colleges. Following the regional competitions, selected students and instructors will compete for the title TCSG’s Overall GOAL Student of the Year and Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year. The final competition will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, in April 2025.
Lanier Technical College has a 100 percent job placement rate five out the past seven years, and offers 50 programs of study in some of the nation’s fastest-growing career fields including healthcare, energy, business and industry, and public or private service. Lanier Technical College is a Unit of the Technical College System of Georgia.
