• Create a seamless pathway from the secondary system through four-year institutions.
• Develop curriculum standards linked with employers and ensure consistent quality and program coordination across KCTCS.
• Partner with existing state and local agencies that serve economically and educationally disadvantaged adults.
• Provide comprehensive assessment and support services to include testing, advising, career and academic counseling and financial aid.
• Improve communication with middle and high school guidance counselors.
• Expand colleges’ collaborations through innovative scheduling and program design.

• Increase student referrals, assessments.
• Expand secondary and baccalaureate transfer and articulation agreements.
• Increase enrollment by 5,000 students by 2002.
• Provide academic credentials for 8,000 employees in KCTCS training by 2002.

• Use synchronous and asynchronous learning networks that incorporate distance-learning technology.
• Develop courses, clusters of competencies and/or programs that integrate academic with experiential education.
• Instill concepts embedded in liberal arts and science courses throughout programs.
• Maximize community-driven efforts to consolidate community and technical colleges and share resources.
• Collaborate and coordinate with other public and private adult education providers.
• Implement a systemic and innovative developmental education program.

• Increase retention and graduation rates.
• Improve advancement of students who complete basic skills instruction.
• Implement employer-driven curricula.
• Measure employer satisfaction.
• Increase faculty development opportunities.

• Serve as the umbrella for statewide linkages and partnerships in providing a skilled workforce.
• Create connections among all stakeholders in economic development.
• Infuse the SCANS competencies, national/state and professional skills standards across the curricula.
• Embed entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial skills across the curriculum.
• Create pre-employment and employability skills and certification programs.
• Develop learning alliances to create shared curricula that are responsive and flexible to the changing needs of the global economy.

• Assess types of companies served.
• Measure number and quality of jobs created.
• Increase number and scale of projects and collaborations that involve multiple companies.
• Measure number of work-based opportunities created.

Our Vision

To create, by the year 2020, a comprehensive community and technical college system recognized as the nation’s best.

Our Mission

The mission of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System is to improve the quality of life and employability of the citizens of the Commonwealth by serving as the primary provider of the following services:

• Certificate, diploma, technical degree, associate degree technical and transfer programs
• Workforce training to meet the needs of existing and new businesses and industries
• Remedial and continuing education
• Short-term, customized training for business and industry
• Adult education
• Associated services