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LONGVIEW \u2013 LeTourneau University staff and students gathered in Longview on Friday to break ground on their new Christian Polytechnic University Center. According to our news partner KETK, the new 100,000-square-foot center will be a four-story building that will house more than 25 labs and spaces for the university\u2019s engineering, business and computer science programs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of work, actually many years, to get us to this point,\u201d LeTourneau University President Dr. Steven D. Mason said. \u201cThe vision for this building at LeTourneau University, as the Christian Polytechnic University, has been in the making for several years to make it a space and a place that would embody everything that we hope for at an institution like ours.\u201d<\/p>\n
The new center is all a part of the university\u2019s Build With Purpose campaign, where university donors are funding projects all across their campus.
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\u201cTo see our donors and friends step up and make this possible \u2014 this is not being funded by tuition dollars. This is entirely by our donors and friends who believe in what we\u2019re doing here,\u201d Mason said.<\/p>\n
The university said the new center has been designed with the goal of helping them become a national leader in \u201cChristian polytechnic higher education.\u201d The center will include an Entrepreneurship Hub, a Cyber Lab, a Finance Trading Lab and a Mixed Reality Simulation Lab to help the university reach that goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to grow in every single way \u2014 not only with enrollment, of course, and we\u2019re excited about that \u2014 but we also want to grow deeper in what we offer students,\u201d Mason said. \u201cOur students deserve the best of polytechnic education, the best in engineering, in aviation, and also in nursing, business, liberal arts and sciences, counseling, and theology. This space is going to be one of those prime locations on campus.\u201d<\/p>\n
Construction of the center is slated to take around 28 months, meaning the university hopes to open the facility in the summer of 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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