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WKCTC Recognizes its 2018 Spring Graduates
West Kentucky Community and Technical College recognized more than 250 candidates for graduation who participated in its Spring Commencement Ceremony May 5, 2018,the at the Luther F. Carson Four Rivers Center. More than 1,000 WKCTC students were eligib...
May 19, 2018, 11:22pm EDT
Williams to Continue as College Foundation Board Chair
John D. Williams of Paducah was named to serve as chair of the Board of Trustees of Paducah Junior College (PJC), Inc., for the third and last consecutive year, at the board's May 17th meeting. PJC is the foundation for West Kentucky Community and Tech...
May 18, 2018, 1:04pm EDT
Kentucky Labor Cabinet's Commissioner Dimeny Keynote Speaker at WKCTC
Commissioner Ervin Dimeny of the Kentucky Labor Cabinet is an avid advocate for apprenticeship programs. That passion may have started when he was a young apprentice in his father's Mercedes car repair shop, where he became a licensed Mercedes technici...
May 17, 2018, 7:34pm EDT
Gentle Yoga Classes Offered This Summer at WKCTC
West Kentucky Community and Technical College is offering Gentle Yoga classes in June and July. Early registration is encouraged. Suzi Renaud is the Gentle Yoga instructor. The classes will be held every Monday, Wednesday and Friday between June 4 a...
May 17, 2018, 10:53am EDT
Lowes Elementary Teacher Selected as 2017-2018 Challenger Learning Center Outstanding Educator
Mike White, a sixth grade science teacher at Lowes Elementary School in Graves County, was recently named the 2017-2018 Challenger Learning Center at Paducah's Outstanding Educator. White was recognized as the center's 12th outstanding educator in a su...
May 17, 2018, 10:40am EDT
KY FAME Helping to Meet Workforce Need
Improving job skills while working can often be a struggle for today's technical workers. Hiring new workers with the appropriate technical skills to replace or move into a growing number of manufacturing openings being made today by a growing number o...
May 15, 2018, 8:56pm EDT
City of Paducah and WKCTC Awarded National Endowment for the Arts Grant for Proposed Art Park
West Kentucky Community and Technical College and the City of Paducah partnered together for an Our Town grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and have been awarded $25,000 for a proposed art park adjacent to the College's Paducah School...
May 9, 2018, 7:23pm EDT
Regional Business and Industry Partners Luncheon at WKCTC May 15
West Kentucky Community and Technical College's Workforce Solutions will host an Annual Regional Business and Industry Partners Luncheon Tuesday, May 15 at 11:30 a.m. in the college's Emerging Technology Center. Commissioner Ervin Dimeny from the Kentu...
May 8, 2018, 6:12pm EDT
Calvert City Community Advisory Team Provides Scholarships for WKCTC Industrial Maintenance and University of Kentucky Engineering Students
During its Tuesday, April 24 meeting, the Calvert City Community Advisory Team (CCCAT) donated $10,000 for student scholarships to West Kentucky Community and Technical College (WKCTC) and the University of Kentucky College of Engineering at Paducah (U...
May 7, 2018, 5:21pm EDT
Commonwealth Middle College Leaves Lasting Impression on the Lives of Students
Jacob Pinkston has his dream job at Nashville's prestigious Henley restaurant as a sous-chef or "second in command" to the banquet chef, where he prepares banquet meals for thousands of guests each month. A spring 2015 graduate from Marshall County ...
May 3, 2018, 8:36am EDT