Educator from Kentucky picked as RI commissioner for postsecondary education

Educator from Kentucky picked as RI commissioner for postsecondary education
Linda Borg, The Providence Journal
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Community College of Rhode Island in Warwick
Rhode Island has a new commissioner of postsecondary education, Shannon Gilkey, who grew up in southwest Kentucky’s coal country and went on to earn a master’s degree from Oxford University.
The Council on  Postsecondary Education voted unanimously last night to appoint Gilkey, who previously was vice-chancellor of academics and workforce development for the Kentucky community college system.
Gilkey will replace acting Commissioner Ronald Carvalho. Brenda-Dann Messier retired as commissioner in 2019.
Gilkey described himself as an educator from Kentucky, a state, he said, that has a few similarities with Rhode Island. Both states suffered after their main industries began to fall apart — the coal industry in Kentucky and the textile and jewelry industry in Rhode Island. 

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