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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
Reece to Speak at University of Tennessee May 11
Dr. Anton Reece, president of West Kentucky Community and Technical College (WKCTC), will be the featured commencement speakers at the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences at the University of Tennessee (UT) - Knoxville. The ceremony will...
May 2, 2018, 12:13pm EDT
Register Early for Summer Camp Fun at WKCTC
Need something for your kids or grandkids to do this summer? West Kentucky Community and Technical College will offer a variety of summer camps for area youth beginning in June. The camps will fill up quickly so early registration is encouraged. We...
May 1, 2018, 6:50pm EDT
WKCTC Graduate Receives Prestigious Scholarship
Graves County's Dallas McKinney, a 2017 spring graduate of West Kentucky Community and Technical College has been busy making sure he's well on his way to his dream job since transferring to Western Kentucky University last fall. Studying to be a meteo...
Apr 25, 2018, 2:00pm EDT
WKCTC Hispanic Honor Society Induction Ceremony April 26
West Kentucky Community and Technical College is establishing a chapter of the National Hispanic Honor Society, Sigma Delta Pi's Sociedad Honoraria de la Lengua Española to become the seventh chapter in the United States to join the respected honorary ...
Apr 23, 2018, 5:00pm EDT
Ballard County Residents Among WKCTC Faculty and Staff Honored at Awards Reception April 20
Ballard County residents and West Kentucky Community and Technical College faculty members Tracy McDanel and Emily Esau and retiree Barbara Maxey were among seven employees recognized during a faculty and staff awards reception in the college's Student...
Apr 23, 2018, 3:00pm EDT