By Angela Hatton
Hopkinsville, KY – Hopkinsville Community College officials are hoping for capital projects funding during the 2011 General Assembly session. Like all community colleges in Kentucky HCC has seen consistent growth in its student population. President Jim Selbe says estimated enrollment for this fall is 3,800, the school's largest ever student body. Selbe says the school has hired new full and part time faculty to accommodate the increase. Now he hopes legislators will fund more space.
"Every college or university in Kentucky has received funding for a capital project since Hopkinsville Community College has. So we've been lobbying pretty hard the last couple of years to get funding for a new building that we would like to create additional allied health programs."
Selbe says many of the area's higher-paying jobs will be in the medical field. The college already has a large nursing program, which Selbe says has seen tremendous growth over the past several years.