News Archive

The gift of scholarship is endless.  It affects a community for generations.  Scholarships improve the lives of recipients, children, grandchildren and all who come into daily contact with recipients.  Scholarships solidify character, build strength and perseverance and develop future leaders.  Additionally, scholarships cultivate role models, foster honorable moral and worthwhile convictions, thus the quintessence of all that one aspires to be.

ACTC’s Student Government Association collected 384 pounds of canned and non-perishable food in it’s annual fall food drive for River Cities Harvest.  Food items were contributed by students, faculty and staff at the three ACTC campuses.

HOPKINSVILLE, KY. (November 17, 2009) – Hopkinsville Community College will be offering a Computer Skills for Farming class for the agricultural community in December. This special educational opportunity is made available through a partnership between HCC and the Commodity Growers Cooperative along with a $9,000 grant from the Kentucky Governor’s Office of Agricultural Policy.

The River Cities Chorus will present its fall concert Tuesday, Dec, 1, at 7:00 p.m. at  Centenary United Methodist Church in downtown Ashland.  The  chorus is composed of ACTC students and area residents.

Max Jackson, ACTC Professor Emeritus of Music, will give a recital Sunday, Nov. 29 at 3:30 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in downtown Ashland.   The program will feature familiar hymns.

Henderson Community College is now offering an accounting option for those students pursuing a Business Administration degree.

The Appalachian Studies Program at Ashland Community and Technical College offers a three-dimensional look at the social complexities, people, traditions and creative output of the region.

Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS), President Michael McCall held a series of meetings at Bowling Green Technical College to seek support for the new Transforming Lives, Transforming Kentucky. advocacy campaign. The visit included meeting with faculty and staff of the college, students, and the community.

ACTC Theatre will present A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley December 3, 4 and 5 at 8:00 p.m. and December 6 at 2:30 p.m.  Performances are in the J. B. Sowards Theatre at the College Drive Campus.

Dianne Siewert, professor of nursing at Henderson Community College, won first place in the poster presentation at the recent National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing conference in Orlando.   The theme of the conference was “Magic in Nursing Education.”