Modesto Junior College and Yosemite Community College District will hold Building Dedications and Open Houses for Glacier Hall and the Agriculture Center for Education on Wednesday, January 4, 2012, on the MJC West Campus, 2201 Blue Gum Avenue. The public is invited to attend the dedication of Allied Health’s Glacier Hall at 2 p.m. and the Agriculture Center for Education Pavilion at 3 p.m. The public will have the opportunity to go on tours and listen to MJC staff members and instructors describe the numerous educational opportunities available in the two buildings.
Glacier Hall provides lecture rooms, skills labs, a computer assisted instructional resource lab and a human patient simulation lab furnished with state-of-the-art technology. Distance education will also be provided to the ADN program’s satellite recently relocated from Sonora to Sequoia Hall on the Columbia College campus. The vision for Glacier Hall grew out of a need for increased numbers of health care professionals in our community. Dr Maurice McKinnon, Dean of Allied Health and Family & Consumer Sciences said, “Not only do we want to continue to provide our local employers with registered nurses, medical assistants, respiratory therapists and nurse assistants but, as the economy permits, we want to be able to expand our health care programs to keep pace with the ever-changing needs of our community.”
The Agriculture Center for Education is a large multi-purpose indoor educational facility that will provide a weather protected environment that is suitable for a myriad of educational events. There are plans to use the center in all facets of the MJC Agriculture education program. The center includes a fully equipped laboratory, two lecture classrooms, instructor preparatory rooms, a large open span arena, a large additional annex and much more. The opportunity for educational events, demonstrations and activities will be limitless. Mark Anglin, Dean of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences states that, “The MJC Agriculture department has a long standing tradition of providing high quality agriculture education to literally thousands of students that have gone on to be successful in the Agriculture industry. The addition of the new agriculture facilities, afforded to us through the Measure E bond, will ensure that the tradition of Agriculture Education excellence will continue well into the future.”
Glacier Hall and the Agriculture Center for Education were funded by the Measure E facilities bond approved in November of 2004. Additional Measure E projects currently underway are the construction of a new Student Services Building on East Campus and the Science Building on West Campus. For more information on these new buildings or any Measure E project, contact the YCCD Facilities Office at 209.575.6512 or Kitchell Corporation at 209.575.6991.
