Interview with Ken Walker, January 16, 2015

Project: Community Colleges of Kentucky: History of Kentucky's Community Colleges Oral History Project

Interview Summary

Ken Walker, the retiring Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) vice president, discusses his childhood in rural Nelson County, Kentucky; his early education; his parents; his summer job at Jim Beam Distillery; his undergraduate and graduate tenures at the University of Kentucky during the early 1970s; his career at what is now the Council on Postsecondary Education; the development of postsecondary education funding models and a demographic database collection system; and the effects of federally mandated desegregation efforts in the early 1980s on postsecondary education and the state budget process. This is the first interview of two.

Interview Accession

2015oh251_cc120

Interviewee Name

Ken Walker

Interviewer Name

James Savage

Interview Date

2015-01-16

Interview Keyword

Budgets Council on Public Higher Education Desegregation Funding models Jim Beam Distilleries Nelson County (Ky.) Budgets Educational funding Public universities and colleges Council on Higher Education

Interview LC Subject

Higher education Universities and colleges--Administration. University of Kentucky. Statistics. Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS)

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