Lees College

Lees College Campus of Hazard Community and Technical College is a campus a public community college campus in Jackson, Kentucky, United States. It is a campus of Hazard Community and Technical College and 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. In 1996, college board voted to close the college and become part of the University of Kentucky's Community College System. A year later, state legislature passed 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 became part of Hazard Community and Technical College as a northern hub campus to the college's service area.

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