 Hey everyone, you're about to watch a video that's going to get thousands of views. Very cool, but your ad needs to be right here. Give me a call. Big Sandy Community and Technical College welcomes Scott Ruhl as their new president and CEO. Ruhl has more than 30 years experience as an educator and has also served as the commissioner for data, planning and research for the technical college system of Georgia. I spent 31 years in Georgia. The last three or four years I was president at West Georgia Technical College. I was able to take advantage of the Georgia retirement system in Georgia, but I'm too young to actually stop working. So I did take a couple of years, spent a little bit of me time, worked with my family, finished some renovations on my house in Georgia. But again, once I finished those little projects, I wanted to do something more. So I started looking around and I was trying to find a similar community to what I was experiencing at West Georgia Tech where it was more of a rural community, a smaller community where you enter a room, people knew who you were, you knew who the other were in the room. I loved that environment so that's what I was looking for. I saw the opportunity here in Eastern Kentucky. As the new president, Ruhl plans to increase enrollment and community outreach and make other improvements throughout the college. One of the first is we've got to make sure that we are stable when it comes to our budget. We are stable and growing when it comes to our enrollment. I've seen a decline statewide throughout the entire Commonwealth of Kentucky at all the community technical colleges as far as that trend line going down on enrollment. We've got to combat that when we see a rise in need and yet we don't have enough students coming to us. So right now I'm investigating, speaking to my internal team, speaking to community members to find out what's causing that, did we lose reputation, do we not have the right equipment, do we not have the right program mix? Let's figure out how we can reinvigorate our message and successes that we have here and opportunities we have for our community so we can get more people driven to our college so that they can get through the programs and get better employment or initial employment. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.