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BUSINESS & INDUSTRY

WKCTC’S BUSINESS IMMERSION WKCTC Business Administration student Kylie
CENTER: TACKLING THE REAL WORLD Cavanah (seated) discusses some of the features of
the new Business Immersion Center with Allison Smith,
West Kentucky Community & Technical College (WKCTC) Professor and Coordinator of WKCTC’s Business and
opened a new business immersion center in November 2019 to Logistics Program.
help business students enhance soft skills. Chromebooks for students to use at collaboration stations.

Located on the second floor of Rosenthal Hall on the WKCTC Large wall-mounted flat screen televisions are also available
campus, the center allows WKCTC business faculty to bring for project presentations or to access streaming programs.
enhanced technology and innovation into the classroom
WKCTC student Kylie Cavanah described the center as giving
while surrounding students with a collaborative, creative
her business administration class a “real world” feel. “It’s
workspace. Ultimately, the learning space is more fluid and
amazing,” she said. “Normally you have to imagine how what
less confining, allowing greater adaptability and flexibility.
we are learning in class or what we read in our textbooks is
Allison Smith, WKCTC’s business administration and going to be like in the real world,” she said. “But here you
logistics program coordinator, said a recent LinkedIn survey kind of get to see what it’s going to look like and what you can
showed that 89 percent of those who responded said, “When a expect in the workplace.”
new hire doesn’t work out, it is because of their soft skills and
A 2015 McCracken County High School graduate, Cavanah
not because of their technical skills. We have made soft skills completed her associate in science degree in December 2019
development a priority across the business administration
and transfered to Murray State University. “I’m so jealous I’m
curriculum at WKCTC,” Smith said. “Our graduates are not going to be here longer so I can actually get to experience
successful and professional in the workplace.”
the Business Immersion Center even more,” she said.
The center, in what was once a computer lab, is more open
For more information about WKCTC’s Business Immersion
than a lecture hall. It includes two instructor workstations,
Center, contact Allison Smith at 270-534-3274 or allison.
laptops with docking stations, several laptops and
smith@kctcs.edu.
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