Board renews
search for
1st president

Gov. Paul E. Patton
addresses the
audience at Mayo
Regional Technology Center. He said reform of post-
secondary education will be among his most
important achievements.

he Executive Committee of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System Board of Regents voted at its meeting on May 1 to:
n Cease to use the services of the Association of Community College Trustees as search consultant as allowed under ACCT's contract with KCTCS.
n Authorize Regents Chairman Martha C. Johnson, Presidential Search Committee Chairman Richard Bean, Regents Vice Chairman Mike Hoseus and Regent Lorna Littrell to research available options for securing search assistance from individuals, small regional search firms, or large national search firms.
The four board members also are asked to seek whatever declarations are necessary to expedite the process.
On April 21, the full Board of Regents authorized the Executive Committee to lend guidance to the Presidential Search Committee.
The Board of Regents has scheduled its next regular meeting for May 19-20 at Hopkinsville Community College.

In the spotlight

Patton brings dollars, attention to KCTCS

he Patton to the People tour to Eastern Kentucky in early April featured five stops at current or future Kentucky Community and Technical College System institutions.
Gov. Paul E. Patton began his three-day tour on April 4 by breaking ground in Pikeville for the Pike County Regional Technology Center, which will be a cooperative venture between Kentucky Tech and Prestonsburg Community College. Next, Patton conducted a town meeting at Mayo Regional Technology Center in Paintsville, where he praised the General Assembly's recent investments in postsecondary education.
"The things we've done for education have been phenomenal," he said. "This has been an education session."
Later that day, at Ashland Community College, Patton complimented the leadership that local resident Martha C. Johnson has provided as chairman of the KCTCS Board of Regents. As he presented a check to ACC to represent a commitment he and the General Assembly made to the college in 1997, he added that the 1998 regular session of the legislature appropriated more than $400 million for new postsecondary education facilities. He also stopped at Maysville and Somerset community colleges.

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