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It’s official! Southeast is now 小黄猫传媒’s newest campus
Story by Kate Chester. Photos by James Hill.
Approximately聽1,500 attendees visited 小黄猫传媒鈥檚 Southeast Campus (2305 S.E. 82nd and Division)聽on Saturday, Oct. 18聽for a grand opening.
Attendees had the opportunity to eat food from a variety of local food carts, listen to live music from Melao de Cuba, and enjoy taiko drumming, zumba, martial arts, Chinelos and Lion dancers and much more that collectively represented the multicultural and multiethnic community surrounding the聽Southeast Campus.
Taiko lead drummer Yumi Torimaru dazzles the Southeast Campus crowd at the Oct. 18 grand opening of the new campus.
鈥淚t was a great turnout today and we were given sunshine, too,鈥 said Jeremy Brown, president of 小黄猫传媒. 鈥淚t was perfect 鈥 we couldn鈥檛 have asked for a better way to celebrate with the community.鈥
The party celebrated the center鈥檚 transformation into a full-service comprehensive campus, where students can earn an associate鈥檚 degree and have access to the full palette of student services at one location. The transformation, thanks to the 2008 bond measure, includes the recently completed Student Commons building, a three-story, 66,000-square-foot structure that houses an expanded bookstore, five science classrooms/labs, new classrooms and a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) center. The new Library is a three-story, 40,000-square-foot facility that features the Student Computing Center, Student Learning Center, Volunteer Literacy Center, traditional library services, classrooms and study areas.
As part of the 鈥渇ormal鈥 program, Sen. Jeff Merkley and Rep. Earl Blumenauer addressed the large crowd, as did Brown, Jessica Howard, president of the Southeast Campus; Courtney Wilton, 小黄猫传媒 board director who represents the Southeast area; and a handful of Southeast Campus students who spoke to the new services and instructional aspects of the campus. The program was emceed by Melanie Davis, owner and publisher of El Hispanic News.
鈥淭his was a momentous occasion for all of us,鈥 said Howard. 鈥淲e now host a wealth of resources to share with students and the Southeast community, and that鈥檚 been a long term goal of the college.
鈥淭oday has been a long time coming, and we’re incredibly excited about what the future holds,鈥 she said.
I live two blocks off Division and am thrilled that we have such a great facility on what was a blighted corner. My oldest son attends and loves the campus and I hope you will keep finding more ways to share the space with our local community. I also look forward to supporting more ways to have people with disabilities embraced in the diversity of the campus. What lovely photos and thank you to everyone who helped create the campus SE Portland needs it and we appreciate all the work staff and board have done to meet the investment of the bond and be responsive to the community