The $3.4 million project of an 8,700-square-foot healthcare facility that’s four years in the making celebrated its opening Tuesday. Delaware Technical Community College and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Delaware cut the ribbon to the new Healthcare Center of Excellence in Dover. The center is inside the Terry Campus that is visible from U.S. 13, and it now displays the …
The big three institutions of higher education in the First State along with the Delaware Department of Education on Thursday asked for a combined $300 million from the state for capital improvement projects. As the state’s General Assembly prepares its budget for fiscal year 2025, which starts July 1, the University of Delaware, Delaware State University and Del Tech all …
A newly-funded career pathway partnership between a state college and a high school aims to tackle the national nursing shortage while giving students college credits to advance into a career in health care. Delaware Technical Community College and William Penn High School in the Colonial School District announced Monday the launch of the Patient Care Technician/Nursing Pathway Program. The partnership …
It was higher education day in the Joint Finance Committee Thursday, in which the big three state institutions – University of Delaware, Delaware State University and Delaware Technical Community College – made their cases for millions in state funding. DelTech, which has $100,460,200 penciled in through the Governor’s Recommended Budget, is asking for additional $525,000 for salary competitiveness, which the …
Delaware Technical Community College is asking the state for $24,815,300 for next fiscal year in order to address critical capital needs. DelTech President Mark Brainard told the Joint Capital Improvement Committee in a hearing Tuesday that there’s six projects that the college is prioritizing as ‘critical,’ which amount to a price tag of $19.8 million. Here’s how DelTech would spend …
Funding requests from three state colleges in General Assembly financial hearings Thursday drew questions about campus safety, fair pay and transparency. Collectively, Delaware Technical Community College, Delaware State University and University of Delaware asked the state Joint Finance Committee for $32,534,000 for Fiscal Year 2024, which starts July 1. The committee, made of members of both the state House and …
