West Kentucky Community and Technical College has been awarded a $210k grant from the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education Healthcare Workforce Collaborative Program. The money will be used to create a program for working Licensed Practical Nurses to become Registered Nurses.
Lincoln County native and F.A. Davis Award winner Dr. Ron Meade has been made Dean of Somerset Community College’s Health Sciences department.
Mahr Park and Madisonville Community College are teaming up to give agriculture students across several majors hands-on access to working with plants. This comes as a looming shortage of agriculture workers is on the horizon.
Fernando Figueroa, president of Gateway Community and Technical College, will speak at the Covington Business Council’s monthly luncheon on the topic of the current state and the road ahead for the school.
Owensboro Community and Technical College will hold an event to celebrate the constitution’s anniversary with a lecture by former professor Bill Conroy on the possibility of a constitutional option for secession in an increasingly polarized America.
Galen College of Nursing has created a Chief Operating Officer position after operating for 30 years without one, naming Cathryn Johnson Rolfe to the position.
Big Sandy Community and Technical College has partnered with area nonprofits and several other Kentucky schools to aid students and community members who have been affected by the recent flooding in Kentucky.
Lilly Endowment Inc. has given Vincennes University a $1 million grant as part of its Indiana Youth Programs on Campus initiative. The funding will be for Vincennes University to expand its multi-day summer curriculum for pre-college students.
Dr. Michael Dixon has been named Dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the new School of Graduate Studies at the University of Southern Indiana and John Farless has been named the University’s new Chief Communications Officer.
The Logan County Board of Education has approved twenty two courses for dual credit in the 2022-23 school year. These classes are free to high school students and will be held through Marshall University and Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College.
