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KCTCS was founded as part of the Postsecondary Improvement Act of 1997 (House Bill 1), signed by former Kentucky Governor Paul E. Patton, to create a new institution to replace the University of Kentucky's Community College System and the Kentucky Department of Education's network of technical schools. The Kentucky Fire Commission, a separate ...
The Nanjing Institute of Technology (NJIT; Chinese: 南京工程学院) is a provincial public college in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.The university is affiliated with the Province of Jiangsu and sponsored by the provincial government.
The Vocational Rehabilitation Program was created in 1920. [12] This program was created under the supervision of the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) which was formed by the US government to facilitate a variety of programs for vocational rehabilitation. [12]
In 1936, with the Ashland Independent School District's Board of Education and first term Governor Happy Chandler's support, Ashland Oil and Refining Company founder [3] and CEO Paul G. Blazer [4] and Ashland attorney John T. Diederich, a leading Republican figure in the state, [5] lobbied for the expansion of Kentucky State tax legislation (KRS 165) for municipal colleges and the associated ...
The Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) is a federal agency under the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, [5] and is headquartered within the Department of Education in Washington, D.C. [3] [6] It was established to administer portions of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. [2]
The Vocational Education Act was renamed the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act in 1984. Amendments in 1990 created the Tech-Prep Program, designed to coordinate educational activities into a coherent sequence of courses. The Act was renamed the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006.
On December 7, 2012, the KCTCS Board of Regents approved a request to change the name to Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College, recognizing the fact that the college's accreditor, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, had designated it as a comprehensive community college and granted approval for it to award the ...
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 from its home on H.C. Mathis Drive to a new campus adjacent to PCC. In 1998, PCC and West Kentucky TECH (yet another name for ...