Southeast Community College at Cumberland is a community and cultural center for the Tri-Cities of Cumberland, Benham and Lynch. A banner day in SECC's history is June 13, 1957 -- a day when "fire engines and police cars paraded through the streets of Cumberland with whistles and sirens blaring." The headline in the Tri-City News proclaimed: "UK College Placed in Cumberland." The news reporter wrote that "music filled the air as people of all ages and classes danced in the streets."
The UK Southeast Center opened in 1960 and in 1964, it joined the UK Community College System. Enrollment at SECC has more than tripled during the last decade -- from 790 students in 1983 to over 3,000 in the 1990s. (See map-link, at-right, for community college enrollment by county, 1995.) In 1998-99, SECC became part of the Kentucky Community and Technical System (KCTCS).
A Learning Resource Center/Technical Building opened in 1982 and in November, 1993, a new $5 million Appalachian Center and Fine Arts building opened. The Center houses a black-box-style theater with movable seating, a broadcasting studio, dance studio, state-of-the art darkroom, classrooms and offices. It provides storage and exhibit space for Appalachian art and archival materials, including sculpture, photographs, documents and oral-history tapes.
 SECC is dedicated to its community and strives to keep its focus local. Programs and services are developed which arise out of the needs and opportunities identified in its service area. 
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