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Show ca _ The SaltLake Tribune UTAH Sunday, December5, 1999 Dual-Use Campus Concept Would Combine High School, College BY HEATHER MAY THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE contructed by spring 2001. Up to 1,200 high school stu- Jordan School Board approved the lease last week. Momentum is building for a new type of school where high school students could beef up their technical skills by day and ogyclasses there during regular Scott Olsen, Jordan’s director of applied technology, said the class hours andcollege students goal is to offer introductory tech- college students would work to- is thought to be thefirst collabo- dents would take applied technol- ward their degreesat night. Educators from the Jordan School District and Salt Lake Community College are on their way to such a program with plans to build a West Jordan-based Jordan Education Center. Under the proposal, SLCC would lease land at 9400 South and Bangerter Highway to the Jordan District for 75 years at $1 a year. For a to-be-determined price, the district would build three 30,000-square-foot build- ings. The first could be wouldattendat night The Jordan Education Center ration of its kind in thestate. While high school students have taken college-level courses for years, districts and colleges have not built and used a school to- gether, say stateofficials. Jordan District and SLCC are still workingout the details, such nical classes to high schoolstudents that would correlate with SLCC’s advanced courses. The Applied technology education throughoutthevalley is booming Education Center te the cause, and the other districts have pledged $6 million. ATC educa- will help alleviate the growth. There is no applied-technology $13 million next year. It is unknown when the WF- ters on the district’s land last year. Jordan District and SLCC SATC would open. officials plan to visit the sites next year. Making the transition from high school to coilege will likelybe easier for students at the and the Jordan Education Center center (ATC) in Salt Lake or Tooele counties, so students must classes probably will be in the health field because training take classes at their high school or places like the Jordan Techni- in physical therapy, sports medicine, pharmacy and medical assisting are in demand. In some cal Center. Thestate is trying to classes, high school students could get collegecredit. Ronald Sing, principal at the as what classes will be offered Jordan Technical Center, wel- and when the campus will open. comesthe extra program. He has to turn away up to 100 students yearly becausethe Sandysatellite building cannot handle more than800. “We're busting at the seams,” SLCC’'s Boardof Trustee state Board of Regents m approve the deal andthe Le; ture must give its OK because the land is ownedbythe state. The hesaid. high-tech learning center.It also could help boost enrollment like it did in Las Vegas. The Clark County SchoolDistrict and the Community College Southern Nevada (CCSN)have a program that mirrors Utah’s, in whichthe college built two cen- build a Wasatch Front South ATC (WFSATC) with money from the five schooldistricts in the area — Salt Lake City, Granite, Murray, Tooele and Jordan. Jordan will donate space from the Jordan tors will ask the Legislature for The Jordan Education Center will be “an integral part of the overall system of applied technology,” said Jason Bagley, WFSATC’s program manager. On SLCC’s end, the Jordan Education Centerwill round out the college’s planned Jordan Campus, which also will housea student services building and a Jordan Education Center. SLCC’s master planner, Gor- donStorrs, said: “It makes ulti- mate good sensefor us to cooperate. 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