BCTC campus director briefs Boyle Fiscal Court on enrollment, new classes and workforce partnerships

A campus director for Bluegrass Community & Technical College told Boyle County Fiscal Court on Aug. 13 that the campus is expanding course offerings, adding night classes and growing enrollment.

The presenter said the campus added multiple night classes this fall — including welding and business courses — and cited practical nursing enrollment of 35 new students in a year-long licensed practical nursing program. The campus offers short-term certificates (data entry, phlebotomy, welding, industrial electrician levels and automation/robotics) intended to quickly move students into local employment, and the director said industry partners have helped build labs such as the Advanced Manufacturing Center. The presenter said on-campus enrollment rose from about 298 last November to roughly 310 as of the previous day and that dual-credit enrollment will add more students in the fall.

The director described ongoing efforts to recruit adjunct instructors and to restore certain programs (computational manufacturing/CMM and medical coding) if instructors can be found. He also described apprenticeship and industry partnership outreach (Bluegrass Biomedical, Hobart, Timberland) and invited magistrates to Manufacturing Day scheduled for Nov. 8.

The court recognized EMS personnel and paramedics who were credited with saving an adult cardiac-arrest patient; Captain Brian Ellis and paramedic lieutenant Ken Haney were named among those acknowledged.

The college update and EMS recognition were presented as informational items with no required court action.