West Kentucky Community and Technical College

West Kentucky Community and Technical College
Type	Public, 2 year
Established	2003
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, 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 Paducah Community College and West Kentucky Technical College. WKCTC is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).

History

Paducah 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 teacher training 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 School. 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 Kentucky Community and Technical Colleges System (KCTCS). At that time, 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 PCC campus. PCC and West Kentucky Technical College consolidated in 2003 to become West Kentucky Community and Technical College (WKCTC).

Located in the beautiful river community of Paducah, Kentucky, WKCTC is a two-year, comprehensive college serving more than 9,000 students annually and offering more than 250 associate degree, diploma and certificate options in 48 academic and career programs. The college has been recognized as an Aspen Prize Top 10 Community College each of the three times the Prize has been awarded by the Aspen Institute and has twice been named a Finalist With Distinction for providing students with strong job training and continuing higher education opportunity, for achieving high completion and transfer rates, and for providing strong employment results for its graduates.

Service area

The primary service area for WKCTC includes all eight counties in the Purchase area:

plus two other counties that border on the Purchase area:

External links

Kentucky Higher Education

Postsecondary Education Programs	Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education Project Graduate KnowHow2GOKy Kentucky Virtual Campus Kentucky Virtual Library

Public Universities	Eastern Kentucky University Kentucky State University Morehead State University Murray State University Northern Kentucky University University of Kentucky University of Louisville Western Kentucky University

Private Colleges and Universities	Alice Lloyd College Asbury University Asbury Theological Seminary Bellarmine University Berea College Brescia University Campbellsville University Centre College Clear Creek Baptist Bible College Frontier Nursing University Georgetown College Kentucky Christian University Kentucky Mountain Bible College Kentucky Wesleyan College Lexington Theological Seminary Lindsey Wilson College Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Midway University University of Pikeville Saint Catharine College Simmons College The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Spalding University Spencerian College Sullivan University Thomas More College Transylvania University Union College University of the Cumberlands

Community and/or Technical Colleges	Ashland Big Sandy Bluegrass Elizabethtown Gateway Hazard Henderson Hopkinsville Jefferson Madisonville Maysville Owensboro Somerset Southcentral Kentucky Southeast Kentucky West Kentucky

Coordinates: 37°03′19″N 88°39′28″W / 37.05518°N 88.65787°W / 37.05518; -88.65787

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