PADUCAH - West Kentucky Community and Technical College President Barbara Veazey is challenging our areas youth.
"We want to say you can go to college. You can have every opportunity," she said.
In its second year, WKCTC is holding it's 'Super Sunday' recruitment fair to get African American high school students interested in college.
"All colleges should be in your pathway," Dr. Veazey said.
Dr. Veazey said minority students received less than 10,000 of the 150,000 bachelor degrees that were awarded since 2001 and high school senior Tasha Maxie hopes to change that.
"I'm very happy. I never imagined stuff like this," said Maxie.
She hopes to become a nurse and knows a college education is a must. "I feel like I'm putting more into this college because I wasn't and it makes me really interested in this college now," she said with a smile.
Slightly more than 550 minority students were enrolled at WKCTC last year and Dr. Veazey is pushing for more students to seek local and state scholarships so that number can grow.
"There are many opportunities out there with the McCracken County Career Endowment, with the West Kentucky Alumni Scholarship and we need to get those students in the pipeline," she said.
