Kentucky Commissioner of Education and Chief Learner Jason E. Glass introduced Beth Hargis as the new associate commissioner in the Business office of Job and Technical Training (OCTE) at the Kentucky Division of Schooling (KDE).
Hargis will substitute David Horseman, who is retiring from the posture on June 30 immediately after a prolonged job in schooling.
As affiliate commissioner, Hargis will offer all round management and oversight of systems and team of the Division of Technological Educational institutions and Continual Enhancement, Division of University student Changeover and Occupation Readiness and the 51 place technological know-how facilities (ATCs) throughout the point out.
“This is an remarkable time for job and specialized schooling in Kentucky from the historic guidance in the Kentucky legislature to our department’s initiatives to carry the United We Study vision to lifetime,” claimed Glass. “As we consider these to start with actions towards a new potential in education, I am thrilled for Beth to lead the Office of Profession and Complex Education and learning with know-how and a college student-centered mentality.”
All over her 21 years in occupation and technical schooling (CTE), Hargis served as a teacher, principal, ATC academic guide and division director. In her earlier position as KDE’s Division Director of Complex Educational institutions and Ongoing Enhancement in OCTE, she presented route for the 51 state operated ATCs along with supervising the Division of Technological Educational facilities and Continual Improvement, the Kentucky Tech Administrative Department and Details & Investment decision Department.
Prior to starting off her education career, Hargis served as a team accountant in a certified community accountant business and served as the functions supervisor of a 501(c)3.
Hargis mentioned she is actually honored and humbled to consider on the job as associate commissioner and is thrilled to see exactly where CTE schooling in Kentucky will go in the many years in advance.
“As a product of vocation and technological education, I realize the prospects afforded to learners via employability and leadership skills taught every working day in the CTE classroom. I also comprehend the relevance of CTE and academic collaboration,” said Hargis. “It is significant for these chances to be obtainable by all students and that our collaborative partnerships and educational supports and pedagogies level the taking part in industry for learners. I firmly consider it is the position of educators to meet up with students where they are and help them shift to wherever they need to have to be for accomplishment.”
Hargis is a Pulaski County indigenous and a graduate of Pulaski County Superior Faculty. She been given a bachelor’s diploma in company administration with a aim in accounting and master’s degrees in instructing and instruction-instructional leadership from Jap Kentucky University (EKU). She obtained her doctorate in academic leadership and plan studies from EKU in 2011.
Hargis lives in Somerset with her spouse and has two sons, two daughters-in-law and two grandchildren.