COLLEGE HALFWAY TO GOAL PERMANENT UNIVERSITY CENTER PLANNED.Byline: Eugene Tong Staff Writer VALENCIA - College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. has assembled more than half of $10 million needed to begin constructing a permanent home for its University Center, officials said Tuesday. As the fund-raising campaign Noun 1. fund-raising campaign - a campaign to raise money for some cause fund-raising drive, fund-raising effort crusade, campaign, cause, drive, effort, movement - a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported for the facility enters its third and final year, the nonprofit College of the Canyons Foundation received a $650,000 boost from a line of donors, pushing total pledges to more than $7 million. ``This is a very critical day,'' said Kathleen Maloney, the foundation's executive director. ``We're at a halfway point.'' Envisioned as a hub for local residents to earn bachelor's and master's degrees at the community college, the University Center currently houses dozens of degree programs from four-year universities in a set of portable classrooms. A permanent, 50,000-square-foot facility is planned at the southwest corner of the Valencia campus. About 300 degrees - from institutions including California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , and University of La Verne The University of La Verne is a private university in La Verne, California (about 35 miles east of Los Angeles) with a main campus, seven satellite campuses throughout central and southern California, a law school, and two military regional campuses at Point Mugu Naval Air Station - have been awarded from the center during the past 18 months. ``It is removing that barrier to the access of education,'' college Superintendent-President Dianne Van Hook said. Topping the list is a $250,000 pledge from Lennar Corp., the developer behind Stevenson Ranch Stevenson Ranch, California (in the 91381 ZIP Code) is a Los Angeles County, USA, unincorporated community west of Santa Clarita a few miles south of Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park. The Stevenson Ranch fountain was redone in 2007. . This follows $250,000 already pledged by The Newhall Land and Farming Company The Newhall Land and Farming Company is a land management company based in Valencia, California, United States. The company is responsible for the master community planning of Valencia, as well as the management of farm land elsewhere in the state. , which the Florida-based Lennar is buying. ``We've always been part of the community,'' said Emile Haddad, a Lennar Communities regional president. ``You can view this as an expanded involvement in the community as we become a part of Newhall Land.'' The foundation also received $100,000 donations from KBZ KBZ Kreditna Banka Zagreb Architects, Klassen Corp. and architectural firm An architectural firm is a company which employs one or more licensed architects and practices the profession of architecture. History Architects (master builders) have existed since early in recorded history. The earliest recorded architects include Imhotep (c. Leo A Leo A ( as known as Leo III ) is an irregular galaxy that is part of the Local Group. It lies 2.25 Mly from Earth. References 1. ^ I. D. Karachentsev, V. E. Karachentseva, W. K. Hutchmeier, D. I. Makarov (2004). . Daly. Nine individual donations totaled more than $100,000 also was collected. The total tally also includes $2.5 million from the college's Measure C construction bond and an expected $2 million from a use tax sharing scheme with the city of Santa Clarita. At a campaign luncheon Tuesday, Rep. Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, reiterated the University Center's importance. ``We're not going to have a major university because of funding,'' said McKeon, who arranged $1.7 million in federal allocations for the center over the last two years. ``It takes a tremendous amount of money. ... Going this route is a terrific idea. Instead of having one major university, we have eight.'' Also on hand to testify was Sami Salvatori, who obtained a master's degree in school counseling last year from the University Center. She completed two years of undergraduate work at the college as a single mother of three. ``My life began the day I stepped on that campus,'' said Salvatori, now an assistant director of outreach and school relations at the college. ``If you want to go back to school, you can go back to school.'' Eugene Tong, (661) 257-5253 eugene.tong(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: U.S. Rep. Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon speaks Tuesday about the planned College of the Canyons University Center, lower left. David R. Crane/Staff Photographer |
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