Louisville Business First
Enrollment in the Kentucky Community and Technical College System rose more than 5 percent for the fall semester, according to a news release.
Fall 2002 enrollment rose to 66,370 at 62 campuses statewide, compared with 63,120 in 2001.
KCTCS President Michael B. McCall attributed the increases in enrollment to a variety of factors, including the growth of the system's distance-learning program and the opening of new facilities.
Since the fall 2001 semester, KCTCS has opened campuses in Shelbyville, Danville, Elizabethtown, Glasgow and Cynthiana, Ky. KCTCS officials also plan to soon open campuses in London and Prestonsburg, Ky., the release said.
In June, the system forged a partnership that allows about 400 students in the West Virginia Community College system to enroll in distance-learning classes offered by KCTCS. (See http://louisville.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2002/06/03/daily15.html)
The Lexington-based KCTCS is the organization that oversees state-funded community and technical colleges.
Kentucky Post
The Northern Kentucky Community and Technical College district has a new name: Gateway Community and Technical College.
The name was selected at a meeting of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System board Friday in Prestonsburg. The decision climaxed a six-month process that took in suggestions from employees, the college's 2,000 students and its board of directors.
G. Edward Hughes, the college's president and CEO, said the name was selected because Northern Kentucky is known as the "Gateway to the South."
The two-year college is on campuses in Covington, Edgewood and Highland Heights. Construction of a fourth campus on Mount Zion Road in Boone County is expected to start in the next few months.
For more information on Gateway Community and Technical College and on the 26 others colleges in the Kentucky Community and Technical College system, visit www.kctcs.edu on the Internet.
Kentucky Enquirer
The votes were cast and the results are in: the Northern Kentucky Community
and Technical College District has a new name. The developing institution of
2,145 students will now be called Gateway Community and Technical College.
The Board of Regents that governs the commonwealth's system of technical and community colleges approved the change Friday after a six-month process of soliciting input from community members, business leaders and students.
“The name Gateway was selected for many reasons,” said Richard Jordan, chairman of Gateway's board of directors.
“It has historical and geographic significance to the region, which is known as the "Gateway to the South.' (And) the new name will eliminate the current confusion with our regional university, and more importantly it will help us in establishing a new identity as the access-point for post-secondary education in the area.”
Northern Kentucky Community and Technical College District, now Gateway, 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 had been made up of 15 technical schools and 13 community colleges. As part of the reform, the technical schools became technical 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 on Mount Zion Road in Boone County.
The Courier-Journal
FLORENCE, Ky. -- Northern Kentucky Community and Technical College District has been renamed Gateway Community and Technical College.
The Board of Regents that governs the commonwealth's system of technical and community colleges approved the change Friday for the 2,145-student institution after six months of soliciting suggestions from community members, business leaders and students.
The name Gateway was selected for many reasons, said Richard Jordan, chairman of the board of directors of what is now Gateway.
''It has historical and geographic significance to the region, which is known as the gateway to the South,'' he said. ''(And) the new name will eliminate the current confusion with our regional university and more importantly, it will help us in establishing a new identity as the access point for postsecondary education in the area.''
The Northern Kentucky Community and Technical College District, now Gateway, was created as a result of Kentucky's 1997 higher education reform act, which created a 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 General Assembly authorized the construction of a new campus on Mount Zion Road in Boone County.
Louisville Business First
Cincinnati Business Courier
The Northern Kentucky Community and Technical College will now be known as Gateway Community and Technical College. The name change was approved Friday by the Kentucky Community and Technical College board of regents, according to a report by the Cincinnati Business Courier
The two-year college, which is an expansion of the old Northern Kentucky Technical College, conducted a six-month process before recommending the Gateway name to its state governing body.
"Identifying a new name for a public two-year college is a challenging task," said G. Edward Hughes, the local college's president and CEO. "The name Gateway was selected for many reasons — it has historical and geographic significance to the region, which is known as the 'gateway to the South.' "
The new name also will eliminate confusion with Northern Kentucky University, a public four-year institution in Highland Heights, Hughes said.
Gateway currently has campuses in Highland Heights, Covington, Edgewood and is planning a new campus off Mount Zion Road in Boone County. The school has about 2,000 students in 28 program areas.