Interview with Roy M. Palk, April 27, 2008
Project: Community Colleges of Kentucky: Metamorphosis, 1998-2008, Decade of Progress of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) Oral History Project
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In this interview, attorney and businessman Roy M. Palk (Founding Member and Chair, Kentucky Community and Technical College System Foundation Board, 1999), recounts the history of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) Foundation's establishment and the leadership roles of those who were originally involved, their joint responsibilities to KCTCS as its fundraising branch, and plans for the future. He briefly shares his own life narrative and how this played into his decision to join the KCTCS Foundation. He also discusses, generally, the dramatic, systematizing changes that took place among Kentucky's disjointed group of community colleges after the passage of the Kentucky Postsecondary Education Improvement Act in 1997.Interview Accession
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Palk, Roy M. Interview by Margaret Lane. 27 Apr. 2008. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Palk, R.M. (2008, April 27). Interview by M. Lane. Community Colleges of Kentucky: Metamorphosis, 1998-2008, Decade of Progress of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Palk, Roy M., interview by Margaret Lane. April 27, 2008, Community Colleges of Kentucky: Metamorphosis, 1998-2008, Decade of Progress of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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