August 29, 2018
Maysville Community & Technical College (MCTC) Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN) and Registered Nursing (RN) students had a 100% pass rate on the National Council Licensure Exam (NCLEX). The NCLEX tests the competency of nursing school graduates. After graduation from nursing school, the student takes the NCLEX exam to receive his or her nursing license. A nursing license gives an individual permission to practice nursing and is granted by the state where he or she met the requirements.
Melanie Hill
Graduation date from MCTC: December 2015
Program: Associate of Arts – Business Administration
What made you decide to attend MCTC: I found myself stalled. I had recently moved back home after being in the workforce for over 15 years. I was depressed. I was almost forty and still hadn’t figured out what I wanted to be when I grew up. My mother was such an important lifeline for me, she suggested I go back to school. I dismissed it at first, but once I got online and started surfing the MCTC website, I got a little spark of excitement. I saw the future I could possibly have so I called MCTC.
Maysville Community & Technical College (MCTC) is proud to announce Angela Fultz, PH.D., Division Chair of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Professor of Chemistry, was re-elected to the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) Board of Regents. Dr. Fultz is excited to continue this role.
“I am very honored to continue serving on the Board of Regents. I am excited about the possibilities for our system and the opportunities we can provide for our students.”
MCTS’s Director of Workforce Development, Brittany Corde will join twenty-nine other leaders of business, industry, and education from across the state as the first Champions selected to attend Kentucky’s Talent Pipeline Management (TPM) Academy.
Earlier this year, Kentucky was designated by the U.S. Chamber Foundation and the Kellogg Foundation as one of three states to implement the academies, and the Kentucky Chamber Workforce Center was chosen to carry out the TPM initiative in the Commonwealth.
Talent Pipeline Management is an employer-led approach to identifying specific workforce needs as well as training and quality issues and solutions to persistent workforce-related challenges. The TPM Academy is a three-part program to train Champions on ways to build talent supply chains and launch TPM in their own communities.
Since achieving the TPM designation, the Chamber’s Workforce Center has focused on engaging employers to work together on a sector and regional basis to address their workforce needs. The work is being done with the support of the Strada Education Network, a national nonprofit and the founding partner of the Kentucky Chamber Workforce Center, and in partnership with the Kentucky Education & Workforce Cabinet.
The Workforce Center’s Talent Pipeline staff and the Champions selected for the TPM academy will focus on creating specific strategies to meet the needs of different industry and regional sectors. By July 2020, more than 25 employer groups, representing regions as well as business and industry sectors, are to be convened to build talent pipelines for 75 high-demand positions. 
Maysville Community and Technical College (MCTC) will host a 50th Anniversary Celebration at 5 pm on August 26th on the front lawn of its Maysville Campus. All students, faculty, staff, alumni, community partners and friends and family are encouraged to attend. 
Leigha Ritchie’s story is not an unfamiliar one. She was a single mom of two boys. The small community where they lived was full of close family and friends. Leigha worked a job she enjoyed to provide the best life possible for her sons. She worked the day shift so she could spend evenings with her family or at her son’s baseball league. It was a good life. But then she got the news that changed everything in an instant. The assembly plant where she worked was closing. The company had decided to move operations to another facility. 
Jesus Arizpe grew up with his family working in the tobacco industry in North Carolina. He, joined his father and grandfather in the family business. It was hard work, but they were good at it and had gained a reputation that led them
to run tobacco distribution operations for some of the industry's largest names. It was an opportunity with one of these large operations that led Jesus to Kentucky. He was managing a distribution center and thought that his future was secure. But, then a change in the tobacco market led to the news that he thought he'd never hear. The warehouse was closing and he would have to find another job. And because the tobacco industry was in a downturn he would be forced to find work outside of the industry where his family had worked for generations.
The Construction Technology program at the Rowan Campus of Maysville Community and Technical College (MCTC) along with the Morehead-Rowan County Chamber of Commerce recently held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the newly constructed project house. The project house is a fully functional 3 bedrooms, 2 bath home located at 90 Grapevine Lane in Morehead. The house was built by John Earl King, MCTC Construction Technology Program Coordinator, and over 120 students.
Student Spotlight: Debra Jessie
Debra Jessie, Montgomery Campus
Program: License Practical Nursing Program
Graduated: May 8, 2018
