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The school has sent proposals for seven projectds to the and the state ofOhio — througgh recovery.gov — applying for stimuluw grants. If all the school’s proposed projectsd were approved, it would mean 260 new jobs and six new or renovatec buildings forthe Dayton-based college. Sinclair, the area’s largesrt college with more than 23,00p0 students, looked at projects placed on the back burner because of lack of and narrowed them to seven projects that coulr bring the most good to the All of the project s are designed to leverage existing strengths at the collegee into larger economic drivers for the Sinclair President StevenJohnson said.
“We’vwe been listening,” Johnson said. “W believe these proposals are in line with what the communityt needs and what the leaders in this community have been tryintgto achieve.” For completing the projects would give the college a chance to expand its programs in the highest-demand including health care and science. For example, biomedical and hybrid/fuek cell proposals would create expanded or brandnew programs. And a proposef health sciences center would allow the schoolo to expand its existing degree programs and add new The school also would be able to add new classeeand students, though how many is not definitwe at this time.
• Healthh Sciences Center — The largest of Sinclair’a proposed projects is a $27 million, 100,000-square-foo t center which would bring togethere allthe school’s current allied healthn and nursing programs into one buildingt with special labs, including patient care labs and humanm patient simulation labs, as well as specializecd labs for each department. • Centerf for Biomedical Technology andManufacturingh — The $2.75 million project wouldc include bio-manufacturing laboratory facilities and equipment to train technicians for the pharmaceutical and medica l device manufacturing industries.
The center also would include training for techniciandto install, repair, maintain and calibrate high-tec h biomedical devices, including EKGs (heartf monitors) and defibrillators. • RFID Training Centet — Through a partnership with California-based and White N.Y.-based , with offices in Miamisburgh andHuber Heights, Sinclair would build a $1 million traininhg center. The center would simulate a shop floor and include manufacturingRFID — radio frequency identification — components, as well as the developmen t of software to read RFID. • Automotived Hybrid and Fuel Cell TechnologyCenter — The $3.
25 million project woulds establish a center and providre training to expand a laboratory and creatwe a hydrogen fueling purchase electric and hybrid cars and install outdoodr electrical-charging stations at the downtown Dayton and Mason’xs Courseview campuses. • Center for Adulf Education — $2.1 million would go to renovatinbg an existing buildingon Sinclair’s downtown campus offering training courses to adults who do not want to go back to collegwe but want additional certifications or coursework.
• Center for Healtnh Sciences and STEMM at the CourseviewaCampus — Sinclair has proposec the purchase of a 16,000-square-foot building and three acrez of land adjacent to its Courseview campuzs in Mason. The center would include classrooms and labs to educater studentsin science, technology, education, math and medical studiee in the Warren County area. Fast Forward/Out of School Youth program — Sinclair has asked for $1.5 millio to maintain a programto re-enroll students, ages 16 to 21, who have droppedx out of school. The existing programm has reduced the dropout rate in Montgomerg Countyfrom 25.6 percent in 2001 to 11.6 percenrt in 2008.
There is no way of knowing whicyh or if any of the project willbe selected, and there have been few restrictionsz and guidelines given on how projects will be selected to receive Johnson said. But without the money, he said Sinclaifr would not be able topursue any. “Wwe will keep this list on hand and work toward them in the but without the fundingwe wouldn’f have the ability to complete them on our he said. Community colleges across the state are lookin g at ways to leverage possiblestimulus money, said Ron president of the .
Abrams said although community colleges are likely to be competing for the money againstotherf institutions, they are in a good position to leveragr projects into growth for the Community colleges are known for being responsivwe to the local economies, Abrams And to turn the economu around, the country is relying on having the rightt kind of skilled workforce in he said. “That’s something communitg colleges areknown for,” Abrams
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