The North Central Kansas Technical College Board of Control met this week in Beloit in their July meeting on Monday night.

The Board was told the Kansas Institute of Underground Drilling is getting closer-and-closer to becoming reality. There will be a meeting in Perry, Oklahoma to finalize the NCKTC marketing plan to offer classes.

The goal, according to NCKTC Dean of Students David Hughes, is to get everything in place to allow the college to offer a 2-daycpourse in locating sometime in mid-September.

Hughes said it will be an introductory class which will be open to business and industry professionals who have need for this kind of training. It will be offered to students in several of the school’s disciplines –Tele-Communications, Electricity, Plumbing, and Heavy Equipment.

Two other related classes, still in the development stage, will be offered later in the school year. They are horizontal drilling and fluid mixing.

In other action at Monday night’s meeting, the alignment process with Fort Hays State University was discussed. The next step is a trip up to Minnesota to check out the partnership between Bemidgi State University and the Northwest Technical College in Minnesota.

And finally, Hughes reported enrollment is up again. He said right now 608 students are enrolled on both campuses for the 2010-2011 school year, up 31-students from this time last year.

Hughes said he expects even more students to enroll and this might make finding housing difficult because the dorms are now filled up. Classes begin August 23rd.