Kentucky Community and Technical Colleges System President Ryan Quarles is visiting campuses across the state to learn how the system's colleges can best serve their communities. In an interview with WKMS ahead of a forum at West Kentucky Community and Technical College, he spoke about KCTCS' role in academics and workforce development in the Commonwealth.

Quarles, a former state representative who served as Kentucky's agriculture commissioner from 2016 to 2023, assumed the leadership role at KCTCS nearly two years ago.

The KCTCS president said the system balances the need for standardizing general education class offerings across all of its colleges with letting those schools create solutions to address needs specific to their communities.

"We're 16 colleges, one system [with] a commit

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