Construction at Northeast Lakeview College On Target Despite Rain

Construction of the the Alamo Community Colleges’ new Northeast Lakeview College campus (NLC) is moving forward much faster now that the record summer rains have gone. Despite only having ten days without rain in the month of July, the new Science Building on the NLC campus is “going vertical” and construction is still on target.

Currently, construction workers are placing the formwork and are getting ready to pour concrete for the second floor slab. When completed, the Science Building will include six medium size classrooms, eight instructional labs, one open science study lab, numerous faculty offices and laboratory prep areas. Programs and classes for Biology, Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, Geology and Physics will be held in the building,

The new structure has a slab on grade, a two story concrete frame with steel roof joists and a roof deck. The exterior of the building will be brick veneer with sandblasted granite sills, aluminum storefront windows, with several exterior metal panels and canopies.

Construction of the new campus’ first five buildings, including the Science Building,
Physical Plant, Academic Building, Library and Learning Resource Center and Career Technology Building is scheduled for completion in the early Summer of 2008. Classes are scheduled to commence in the Fall of 2008.

SAC Student Awarded First Truett L. Chance Scholarship

Scholarship recipient Leticia Ogilvie, (center), is congratulated by (l to r) Roland DuBay, ACCD executive director of Institutional Advancement, SAC President Dr. Robert Zeigler, Trudy Kinnison, daughter of Dr. Truett L. Chance, and Ruben Fechner, godfather
of Ogilvie. (Photo by Leonard Ziegler)

San Antonio College faculty and staff held a special ceremony to recognize Leticia Ogilvie as the first recipient of the Truett L. Chance Scholarship. Trudy Kinnison, daughter of Dr. Chance, provided funds for the scholarship to the ACCD Foundation to establish an endowment in honor of her father, a former president of San Antonio College, chair of the department of Social Sciences, and esteemed professor and mentor. J.C. Horton, Political Science Professor, is the Chair of the Truett Chance Scholarship Committee.

Palo Alto College's Veterinary Technology program received notice that they had a 100 percent pass rate in both the National and State Board Exams for all 14 students that graduated in May 2007. PAC’s Vet Tech Program was the only program nationally to have a 100 percent pass rate and is the only program of its kind in the San Antonio area.

Northwest Vista College has been awarded $10,000 by the American Masterpieces: Dance-College Component, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, which is administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts with Dance/USA. Grant funds will be used to implement the Performing History: Discovering Reciprocal Influences in Contemporary Dance program, to include a residency in which Anna Sokolow’s choreography; “Frida” will be restaged by Jim May in 2008. Jayne King, NVC Assistant Professor/Dance Instructor, is the Project Director for this initiative, which has been funded on the centenary of Frida's birth. The project will collaborate with the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center and the Escuela Nacional de Danza Clásica y Contemporánea del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, to conduct outreach activities that will include lecture-demonstrations and performances.

The GED program located at St. Philip’s College achieved a record completion rate. A total of 99 students completed the program, the highest for any city site. That GED program is a partnership with the City of San Antonio and is located at the Learning, Leadership and Development Center at St. Philip’s main campus.