A bill that would fund dozens of construction projects for community and technical colleges statewide sailed through the House Education Committee without opposition Tuesday, even as critics warned that it could mean financial disaster for the state.
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5/15/2013
Glendale (Ariz.) municipal officials and Glendale Community College executives have developed plans to open a small business and entrepreneurship center downtown by late summer or early fall.
5/15/2013
Dell Medical School, the future medical school at the University of Texas, received its biggest go-ahead Thursday, with a vote from the school’s board of regents to approve $334.5 million to pay for its first phase.
5/15/2013
A multimillion-dollar project is planned at Bemidji State University in summer 2014 to better align the campus. The project, which could approach $12 million, would relocate the College of Business and student services.
5/15/2013
The NRP Group of Cleveland has begun construction on a 624-bed, four-story student housing community at the University of Akron.
5/15/2013
The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees approved the next phase of new dorm construction on campus Tuesday, allowing UK to move forward with three new dorms at the old Cooperstown complex near W.T. Young Library.
5/9/2013
The Department of Environmental Protection today announced the grand opening of the new Centenary College Environmental Science Center at the DEP’s Charles O. Hayford Fish Hatchery in Hackettstown, which will serve as an experimental learning facility for the school’s environmental studies curriculum.
5/2/2013
The demolitions make way for an arts campus and new buildings and amenities along University Place and Alexander Street, just south of McCarter Theatre. The project is expected to be completed by 2017.
4/25/2013
The facility will be the campus hub for fitness training, intramural sports and outdoor recreation. It will include a café and numerous study nooks, as well as three pools, five sport courts, 15,000 square feet of cardiovascular and weightlifting space, four fitness studios, a wellness studio and climbing walls.
4/12/2013
A 46,000-square-foot abandoned furniture warehouse has been given new life as the continuing education and industrial center at Randolph Community College in Asheboro, N.C. The center includes seven classrooms; doubles the size of the Small Business Center; provides space for continuing ed classes and offices; houses a corporate training center; and doubles the space for the Computer-Integrated Machining program.
4/11/2013
The university plans to use the old law building to expand other program areas and to give students more space to study, collaborate and hang out, President Robert L. Bogomolny told the Baltimore Business Journal.
4/4/2013
The university has bought 25 lots following its purchase of 25 parcels from the Genesee County Land Bank in September 2012. School officials have expressed an interest in several dozen other sites.
3/28/2013
The University of Akron is ranked No. 14. U of A’s world class facility is 295,000 feet and features a 56-foot rock climbing wall, leisure pool, spa and lazy river. “So you’ve got an indoor water park basically bolted onto a killer gym included when you attend Akron. Just the thing needed to wait out the cold Ohio winters,” the caption to the photo reads.
3/21/2013
The four building, 33-acre complex, named after its most famous alumnus, Rep. James Clyburn, would be a monument to the future -- where students could get hands-on experience and be a part of groundbreaking research in transportation.
3/21/2013
Creation of a community college in Livingston Parish would meet a major need in one of the fastest-growing areas of the state, officials said. As new medical centers, industries, and businesses open in the parish, demand increases for people with college and vocational training. “We think the time is right,” said Sen. Dale Erdey, R-Livingston. “We’ve got a good shot at this.”
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