Interview with Judith Rhoads, March 30, 2007

Interview Summary

Oral history with Judith Rhoads, president of Madisonville Community and Technical College since 1998. Rhoads begins interview discussion her hire at the college as a faculty member in 1976. She discusses early campus construction and efforts to expand the campus. Rhoads details legislative and local efforts to raise funds for the campus as well as early student athletic and cultural activities. She details the relationship between the college and other regional institutions as well how technical and vocation programs have increased since the KCTCS merger in 1997. Interview concludes with a discussion on how the college has impacted the community as well and how local student access to higher education has increased with the availability of the college.

Interview Keyword

Community College community college history community college system Higher education Higher Education in Kentucky

Interview LC Subject

Community colleges--Administration Community colleges--History Community colleges--Kentucky Education, Higher Madisonville Community College Rhoads, Judith Rhoads, Judith--Interviews

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