West Kentucky Community and Technical College

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**West Kentucky Community and Technical College**
Established	2003
Type	Public, 2 year
President	Dr. Barbara Veazey
Location	Paducah, Kentucky, USA
Colors	Navy █ and Gold █
Affiliations	Kentucky Community and Technical College System
Website	http://www.westkentucky.kctcs.edu

West Kentucky Community and Technical College (WKCTC), located in Paducah, KY, is one of 16 two-year, open-admissions colleges of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS). It was formed by the 2003 consolidation of West Kentucky Community College and West Kentucky Technical College. WKCTC is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).

[edit] History

West Kentucky Community College was founded in 1932 as a private school called Paducah Junior College (PJC). PJC became a municipal college in 1936. In 1964, PJC moved to a new campus on Alben Barkley Drive in Paducah which serves as today's WKCTC campus. In 1967, PJC joined the University of Kentucky's Community College System and became Paducah Community College.

West Kentucky Technical College was founded in 1909 as West Kentucky Industrial College, a technical school for African American students. West Kentucky Industrial College became a state-supported junior college in 1918. The college changed its name twice more, eventually becoming West Kentucky State Vocational-Technical College. In 1979, the school moved its operations to a new campus adjacent to PCC.

In 1998, PCC and West Kentucky TECH (yet another name for the vocational-technical school) joined the newly formed KCTCS. At that time, PCC officially became West Kentucky Community College, and West Kentucky TECH became West Kentucky Technical College. That same year, the University of Kentucky opened a branch campus of its College of Engineering at the WKCTC campus. The community and technical colleges consolidated in 2003.