Lees College Campus of Hazard Community and Technical College is a campus in Jackson, Kentucky of Hazard Community and Technical College, a public community college. It was founded in 1883 as Jackson Academy, an elementary and high school for Breathitt County. It is one of the oldest higher education institutions in the region.[1] In 1996, college board would vote to close the college and be absorbed into the University of Kentucky's Community College System. A year later, state legislature would pass a bill to take all community and technical colleges of the state and form the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. Once KCTCS was formed, the campus would become part of Hazard Community and Technical College as a northern hub campus to the college's service area.
- ^ Kentucky Encyclopedia. 1992. University Press of Kentucky.