New year's Operations Update

January 23, 2011

Submitted by Amy Goings, MPA, Vice President for Operations and College Relations

Thank you for your patience last week as we tried to keep the safety of our staff, students, and visitors foremost in our minds as a wallop of a winter storm impacted our community.  Please let me know if you had any difficulties with the CPTC Alert system as we are always trying to improve our emergency communications.  Thank you.

Health Sciences Facility Update: The big news of the week is that the State has issued a notice to proceed for our Health Sciences Facility, and Jody Miller Construction will serve as our general contractor.  You will see construction activity shortly, and Mike Anderson and I will have regular updates once the project is fully up and running.

You will also be hearing from Indra Jain as he is our new Health Sciences Facility project manager (his position is funded by state capital funds set aside for project management). Indra has worked with the College before on the Building 14 emergency repairs and has a wealth of construction management experience. I look forward to introducing Indra to you at our next All Staff Meeting.

70^th Anniversary Update: You may have noticed some eye-catching displays around campus highlighting our 70^th Anniversary.  These displays were collaborated between our 70^th Anniversary Task Force and two very talented interior designers, Kim Ewing (senior student) and Bree Ellison (alumna).  Together, Kim and Bree put together some wonderful historical displays in Buildings 16, 19, and 23.  Please enjoy them as they will be up the entire year.

We will soon be inviting you to share your favorite CPTC memories – stay tuned.

RENOVATIONS ACROSS CAMPUS

Invista Performance Solution Headquarters: As you may recall, Invista is the contract training collaboration/partnership we now have with TCC, Pierce, and Bates. Invista is now housed on our campus in Building 19 in the newly renovated office spaces (Rooms 205 and 207).  

Culinary Arts Program Expansion:  Minor renovations are being made to the former Floral classroom inside Building 23 and Buildings 31 and 37 to prepare for the spring launch of delicious offerings made by the Pastry Arts students.  Again, Pastry Arts is a new certificate program within the Culinary Arts program.

New Pastry Arts program location.

You can find the complete listing of the Operations Updates and specific listings by visiting www.cptc.edu/blog and searching for “Operations.”  As always, if you have questions please contact me directly at amy.goings@cptc.edu.  Thank you.

70th Anniversary Displays