Mission College Moves Onto New Campus
Mission College officials Monday opened up shop at the college’s new 22-acre campus in Sylmar, despite a reduction in funds allocated by the community college district for the move.
“The new furniture isn’t here yet, and we have handwritten signs, and boxes everywhere,” said Jim Austin, vice president of administration. “But we’re here.”
Administrators moved operations from the college’s storefront office in San Fernando to the new $22-million campus at the corner of Eldridge Avenue and Hubbard Street, next to El Cariso Regional Park. All major student services, such as admissions and records, have been relocated, Austin said.
The Los Angeles Community College District originally set aside $3.5 million for the move, but state budget cuts led officials to slash the amount to $2.3 million, he said.
Classes, previously held in old San Fernando warehouses and shops, will begin as scheduled in mid-September in the campus’ new instructional building, which boasts 35 classrooms, Austin said. The library will not be opened until October, because cash-flow problems have delayed the purchase of shelves.
A child-care center for the 6,000-student college is scheduled to be completed by 1996, followed by a second instructional building, Austin said.
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