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Kentucky New Era
November 14, 2003
HCC, KCTCS see enrollment increase
Hopkinsville Community College joined all but one Kentucky Community and Technical
College System institution in reflecting an increase in fall enrollment over
the previous year.
Enrollment for the fall semester at HCC is 3,147, up 5 percent over the 2002
fall semester enrollment of 2,995, according to Bryan Armstrong, a spokesmen
with KCTCS offices in Lexington.
Fall enrollment for the entire KCTCS set a record in 2003, surpassing 72,000
students for the first time ever. Since 1998, KCTCS colleges have increased
enrollment by 58 percent.
Herald-Leader
November 20, 2003
Education secretary selected
Fletcher picks ex-head of KET for key position
In his first cabinet appointment, Gov.-elect Ernie Fletcher has selected former
Kentucky Educational Television chief executive Virginia Fox as his education
secretary.
Fletcher has scheduled a news conference today at Northern Elementary School
in Lexington to formally introduce the widely respected Fox, who helped launch
KET in 1968.
She served on the public television network's board for the next 34 years before
retiring last year.
Fox, 64, led the education network through several expansions and technological
revolutions.
As secretary of the Education, Arts, and Humanities Cabinet, Fox will supervise
the 800 employees of the state Department of Education, as well as administer
the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System.
She also will oversee her old charge, KET.
In Fox, Fletcher is getting a hard-working, "extremely intelligent"
leader as his first cabinet appointee, said Donna Moore, KET's executive producer
and a longtime colleague of Fox.
"I think it is a credit to the administration to bring in someone of her
caliber," Moore said. "People across Kentucky should be very pleased
and will be well served."
Fox, who also is a former elementary school teacher and librarian, could not
be reached for comment last night.
During the last two weeks, she has served as one of the most high-profile members
of Fletcher's team of advisers. That transition team has been tasked with laying
the groundwork for his administration, the first of a Republican in 32 years.
Specifically, Fox is leading a group made up of several educators, school administrators
and a lobbyist for the Kentucky School Board Association, who are studying how
the Education, Arts and Humanities Cabinet is set up and operates.
She also is serving on a blue ribbon commission evaluating efficiency in state
government.
Both groups will submit reports to Fletcher sometime after his Dec. 9 inauguration.
Fletcher is expected to name most of the other 14 cabinet secretaries before
his swearing in.
During his campaign, Fletcher said his first priority in education would be
to test first-graders to make sure students can read by the third grade.
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