Projects will modernize and accelerate the work to provide education, training and workforce development
(Story Courtesy of Kentucky Today)
VERSAILLES, Ky. (KT) – The Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) will receive $90 million to fund three building projects following passage of legislation and signing by Gov. Andy Beshear during the 2025 session.
KCTCS says the projects will modernize and accelerate the work to provide education, training and workforce development for essential Kentucky industries.
The college system identified the projects as priorities during a self-study required by Senate Joint Resolution 179. The funds were originally appropriated in House Bill 6 in the 2024 session.
The release of funds was contingent on the system's work to develop a set of recommendations designed to improve and advance the community college system to better align to Kentucky’s needs. The report, which represented 7,000 staff hours by five work teams, was delivered to lawmakers in December.
Somerset Community College
Plans include consolidating Laurel North and South campuses since they are in close proximity in London by building an advanced technical building at the Laurel North Campus. The new building will provide modern classrooms and workshops for program expansion for automotive mechanics, industrial technology, construction technology and other high-wage, high-demand jobs. The system will surplus the Laurel South campus.
Jefferson Community and Technical College
This project is the second phase in the replacement of Hartford Hall at the downtown Jefferson campus. The building has served its useful life and is no longer compliant with building codes and cannot offer modern science instruction. The new facility will provide accessible, safe labs for science classes, and allied health and nursing programs.
Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College
The funds will be used for the Phase I construction of a new consolidated campus in Glasgow to respond to the high demand in the allied health career field. It will replace a severely outdated health campus housed in the old tuberculosis hospital dormitory buildings and a triple-wide trailer. The need for this replacement campus comes from the demographic changes to this area of the state, along withthe new electric vehicle battery plants being built in Glendale and Bowling Green.
“We extend our sincere thanks to our legislators and Gov. Beshear for their continued support of our mission to align robust academic and technical programming to the workforce and career needs of our students,” said KCTCS President Ryan Quarles.
With an annual enrollment of over 110,000 students, KCTCS is Kentucky’s largest provider of workforce training and post-secondary education.
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