NVCC Receives Funding For New Technology Center

By LARISSA LYTWYN

Published: Mar 26, 2004 12:00 am

Waterbury â Governor John G. Rowland recently announced a $28 million allocation in state funding for a new Technology Center to be built at Naugatuck Valley Community College.

The new 100,000-square-foot Technology Center will replace the aging, 42-year-old Founders Hall and provide technologically advanced classrooms and laboratories to support several of Naugatuck Valley Community Collegeâs (NVCC) degree programs including automotive technology, engineering technology, information technology, hospitality management, culinary arts, and horticulture.

âNaugatuck Valley Community Collegeâs time has come,â said Gov Rowland. âThis campus is part of our promise that every Connecticut citizen will have access to an affordable, superior college education. The significant investments we are continuing to make in Connecticutâs higher education system are positively impacting our quality of life and the future of the next generation.â

The Technology Center will be the first completely new building constructed at NVCC in more than 15 years. For the last 30 years, some classes have been held on campus in âtemporaryâ modular buildings.

âWe are very proud of what Naugatuck Valley has to offer the community. The governorâs steadfast support of our expansion and capital improvements is reflected in his personal commitment over the years, and shown again here today,â said Dr Richard L. Sanders, president of NVCC.

âHigher education is an economic engine for the state. Everything we do at Naugatuck Valley to train and educate the residents of our region benefits the state by providing a skilled workforce,â said Dr Stephen Colwell, dean of administration at NVCC.

The new building will allow NVCC to consolidate all of its technology-focused curriculums on campus and under one roof. Due to insufficient space, the college currently is forced to offer the automotive technology program in leased space off-campus.

The new Technology Center will contain ten computer classrooms, four computer-aided design laboratories, a number of engineering technology laboratories, ten general classrooms, an automotive technology center, kitchen and dining facilities for hospitality management and culinary arts programs, and a freestanding greenhouse laboratory for the horticulture program.

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Well said. Unfortunately, we are back to more of the same and we know how this will end. However, it gives us an opportunity to question many ways in which the DTC failed residents, voters, candidates, everyone. Brandon Moore was the first candidate to voice interest in running. A strong and well prepared candidate that the town republicans did not want to run against. They made it clear they wanted Ku to be the candidate. We all know you endorse the candidate you have no concerns about. Once Ku decided to try to unseat Bolinsky again, the DTC should have done what it can do and that was choose a candidate or put a good process in place to set up forums and get the caucus over and done smoothly, fairly, and ethically. It did neither. and this is what resulted: The Young Dem Debate became a Ku strategy to claim Ku being victimized, and it backfired; Ku's previous campaign committee went with Brandon Moore in hopes of finally flipping the seat; the DTC delay in organizing any candidate forums led to an inability to get the information out to all (as we see in complaints from new residents regarding lack of information); the DTC was severely split by the caucus chaos and some did not fully participate as a result; and we are back to square one with the candidate Alex Villamil preferred, and the same old guard and the same chance of flipping the seat.

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