Lexington Herald-Leader
KCTCS students win at Phi Beta Lambda
Kentucky Community and Technical College System students recently won honors in the Phi Beta Lambda state competition for students interested in business and entrepreneurship. The following placed in the top five in competition categories:
Bowling Green Technical College
1st Local Chapter Scrapbook; 2nd Largest Local Chapter Membership; 3rd Community Service Project; 3rd Outstanding Local Chapter; 4th Local Chapter Newsletter; 5th Local Chapter Annual Business Report; Gold Seal Chapter Award of Merit; Professional Division Local Recruitment of Members. Mary Allgavaever, Professional Division Scholarship -- Dr. Charles Ray Scholarship; Mary Burnes, 2nd Information Management; Sandi Hogan, 4th Public Speaking; Shirl Perkins, 4th Business Communication; Scarlett Porter, 4th Medical Terminology; Stephanie Tines, 5th Word Processing; and Angel White, 2nd Business Math.
Central Kentucky Technical College
David Bisset, 2nd Medical Terminology; Christina Brown, 1st Business Math; Joan Chandler, 4th Human Resource Management; Vonda Donoho, 3rd Kara Burkett-Desktop Publishing Award; Theresa Harris, 3rd Medical Terminology; Rebecca Martin, 3rd Kara Burkett-Desktop Publishing Award; Sara McFarland, 2nd Word Processing; Wanda Watts, 2nd Website Development; and Janice Wethington, 5th Human Resource Management.
Elizabethtown Technical College
5th Local Chapter Scrapbook; Deborah Goodman, 1st Medical Terminology.
Hazard Technical College
1st Largest Percentage Increase in Membership; Marilyn Feltner, 5th Computer Concepts; Vanessa Ritchie, 3rd Computer Applications.
Northern Kentucky Technical College
Tasha Fehler, 3rd Business Math; and Amanda Singleton, 4th Business Math.
Paducah Community College
Debbie Albritton, 1st Multimedia Presentation, Kara Burkett-Desktop Publishing Award; Brian Cloar, 3rd Public Speaking; Pam Dewey, 5th Kara Burkett-Desktop Publishing Award; Dustin Green, 2nd Computer Applications; Linda Haney, 2nd Multimedia Presentation, Kara Burkett-Desktop Publishing Award; Joyce Hubbard, 3rd Job Interview and 5th Kara Burkett-Desktop Publishing Award; Jennifer Moore, 1st Computer Applications; and Leigh Ann Riley, 2nd Accounting Principles.
Rowan Technical College
4th Largest Local Chapter Membership; Angela Short, 2nd Public Speaking.
Southeast Community College
Elijah "Lige" Buell, Jr., Outstanding Local Adviser; and Deborah Halcomb, Who's Who in Phi Beta Lambda.
Southeast Tech
2nd Largest Percentage Increase in Membership; 2nd Parliamentary Procedure: Kathy Wilder, Colby Slusher, Quincy Miracle, Jennifer Hopper, and Bridget Asher; Bridget Asher, 5th Parliamentary Procedure-Top 5 Individual Test Scores and 4th Word Processing; Kim Callahan, 1st Machine Transcription; Jennifer Hopper, 3rd Word Processing; and Kathy Wilder, 4th Parliamentary Procedure-Top 5 Individual Test Scores.
West Kentucky Technical College
1st Community Service Project; 1st Local Chapter Newsletter; and 5th Largest Local Chapter Membership; Kelly Dowdy, 1st Website Development; Staci Hatton, 1st Website Development; Mary Kay Sanders, 1st Public Speaking; Jennifer Teems, 5th Medical Terminology; Heather Woodward, 4th Job Interview
Cincinnati Enquirer
Tech college seeks new image
But first, N. Ky. school needs a snazzier name
FORT MITCHELL — So, what's in a name?
A mouthful for the Northern Kentucky Community & Technical College District.
That's why school administrators sought input in May to change the name to a catchy phrase — followed officially by “Community and Technical College” — that says something about the developing institution's location and the mission to educate its 2,145 students.
Four hundred letters soliciting suggestions were sent out over an eight-county region with these rules:
The name must conjure the school's place in higher education.
Names after living individuals or politicians are not allowed.
“What I want everyone to recognize is that we're a separate entity from Northern Kentucky University and that we provide open access to all sorts of education opportunities,” said Ed Hughes, president and chief executive officer.
Officials have whittled the roughly 100 suggestions to 18 names and will host a panel of marketing experts next week to see if there's a possible winner.
It would then be passed to the state governing board for final approval.
“In the next 10 years, five years, that signature name, whatever it is, people will know it as Northern Kentucky's premier community and technical college of choice,” Dr. Hughes said. “You can get started with us and you can get a career with us.”
Northern Kentucky Community and Technical College District was created as a result of the commonwealth's 1997 higher education reform act, which created a new community and technical college system. That system was made up of 15 technical schools and 13 community colleges.
As part of the reform, the tech schools became tech colleges.
In Northern Kentucky, three vocational schools became known as Northern Kentucky Technical College, a single institution with three branches.
In 1998, the state's General Assembly authorized the construction of a new campus, which will be located on Mount Zion Road in Boone County.
The president won't reveal his favorite name just yet. Dr. Hughes would say only this:
“Whatever comes out of it, I'm sure it'll be the right thing.”
Below are the 18 suggestions still
in the running to become the new name for the Northern Kentucky Community and
Technical College District:
Access
Bluegrass
Cityview
Commonwealth
Frontier
Gateway
Kentucky Ridge
New Horizon
Nortech
North Star
Regional
River Cities
River Hills
River Valley
Sentinel
Summit
Tristate
Two Rivers
Messenger-Inquirer
Owensboro Community College will hold new student registration from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday on the lower level of the Campus Center building.
The fall semester for OCC and Owensboro Technical College will begin Monday.
Programs that are still available include CISCO, industrial and engineering technology, criminal justice/law enforcement, real estate, agriculture technology and biotechnology.
Many classes are still open including ceramics, introduction to business, principles of management, theatre, history, painting and algebra. An evening programmable logic controller class is also available.
For more information or a personal appointment, call OCC at 686-4412 or OTC at 687-7255.