LCSC moves in at NIC
<p>Ron Dorn, left, North Idaho College vice president for resources management, Anthony Fernandez, Lewis-Clark State College president, Priscilla Bell, president of NIC, and Chet Herbst, LCSC vice president for finance and administration survey the area of the education corridor where two portable classrooms for LCSC were toured Tuesday.</p>
COEUR d'ALENE - Leaders from Lewis-Clark State College and North Idaho College gathered in Coeur d'Alene on Tuesday to celebrate this semester's opening of LSCS-Coeur d'Alene's new home on the education corridor.
The Lewiston-based four-year college has moved out of its classrooms in the Harbor Plaza commercial/retail mall on Northwest Boulevard, and into a pair of portables on a portion of the old DeArmond mill site property off River Avenue, now owned by the NIC Foundation and leased to the college.
"It's an enhanced opportunity for partnership, a chance to work more closely with NIC while providing a campus environment for our students, and promote the collaborative benefits of the education corridor," said Cyndie Hammond, director of LCSC's Coeur d'Alene branch.
The portables served as replacement classrooms for NIC students while Seiter Hall was undergoing renovation.
The availability of the portables has doubled LCSC's classroom space at a time when both schools are dealing with rising enrollments.
Hammond said moving the classes into the portables eliminates the safety hazards students faced when crossing Northwest Boulevard, and since the majority of LCSC students transfer from NIC, the move makes the transition easier for them.
"That's what we're all here for, to serve students," Hammond said.