Central Oregon Community College is pleased to announce plans to expand its Madras campus with a new, 15,000 square-foot facility that will house a range of new training and education opportunities to meet workforce needs. COCC plans to open the Madras campus expansion in the fall of 2024.
This expansion will help address three of the largest workforce and community needs in Central Oregon and the state as a whole: the need for well-trained early childhood educators, the shortage of health care workers and the shortage of affordable child care slots. To do so, the college will bring several of its most highly successful, existing programs to Madras, including early childhood education (offered in both English and Spanish), nursing, nursing assisting and medical assisting.
The new, state-of-the-art, environmentally responsible facility will feature classrooms, labs for health career and science programs, classrooms equipped with streaming technology for remote instruction, a community multipurpose room, a family literacy space, offices and a breakroom. The expanded campus will also serve as a workforce development center for future early childhood educators and as a child care center for the local community, offering up to 100 child care slots (for infants through pre-K) that will be operated by a licensed, third-party contractor. A request for proposals from architectural design firms is open through the end of September, and COCC will announce its final selection for the project’s designer in October.
https://www.cocc.edu/.../cocc-to-expand-madras-campus...
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