Page 16 of Delgado Community College 2004-2005 Catalog by Delgado Community College New Orleans Louisiana

THE CAMPUSES City Park Campus The City Park Campus is centrally located on City Park Avenue to serve the urban area of the city of New Orleans. This campus is the original site of Delgado Community College and remains the largest campus with approximately 10,000 students and more than 60 academic programs. The City Park Campus contains over twenty buildings housing classrooms, laboratories, and support areas. Two major buildings were constructed and opened in 1970: the Francis E. Cook Building, which today houses the Commercial Art Department, the Math labs, the Delgado Press, and the Advanced Technology Center as well as numerous classrooms and faculty offices; and the Moss Memorial Library Building, which holds more than 123,000 volumes and over 898 periodicals as well as a special collection of books on Louisiana history. During the past decade, many of the facilities on the City Park Campus have been expanded and renovated. In 1981, the first phase of a complete renovation of Isaac Delgado Hall was completed. In this phase, a three-story structure was built to fill in the original buildings central courtyard, valuable lecture and laboratory facilities were added, and the South Wing was renovated to include a splendid art gallery. In late 1984, renovations were finished on the East and West wings of Delgado Hall, and in 1987 all other Delgado Hall renovations were finished. Until 1982, Delgados central administrative offices were in two buildings on the City Park Campus. In early 1982, a new administration building was opened on the periphery of the City Park Campus. This facility centralized the colleges administrative functions and freed considerable office and classroom space on the City Park Campus. In early 1984, the Henry S. Braden Sr. Vocational Technical Center, located adjacent to Delgado Hall, was completed. This threebuilding technical shop complex contains the Judge Bernard J. Bagert Sr. Welding Lab, the Harry J. Batt Sr. Carpentry Lab, the Adam R. Haydel Sr. Automotive Lab, and the Charles D. Lancaster Sr. Machinist Lab. In the 1990s, extensive renovations were completed on the City Park Campus. A gymnasium in the Michael L. Williamson Building allows the Delgado basketball teams to play home games on campus. Also, the Gail T. Jones Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Technology, which is housed in the Cook building on Orleans Avenue, opened in August 1990. Currently, the Moss Memorial Library building is being expanded. The City Park Campus is a leader in telecommunications with a fiber optic network that connects several hundred computers across the campus. Responding to developments in higher education across the country, the success of comprehensive community colleges in workforce education, the documented success of community college graduates, and the need to manage physical and capital resources, in 1997 the Louisiana Legislature enacted legislation merging the Louisiana Technical College-New Orleans Campus and Delgado Community College. Subsequent legislation and a constitutional amendment created a community and technical college system which includes Delgado, five other community colleges and the 42 vocational-technical schools under a new management Board of Supervisors, effective July 1, 1999. The purpose of the 1997 legislation, Act 917, was to merge the Orleans Regional Technical Institute (LTC-NOC) with Delgado Community College effective July 1, 1997, and to transfer the funds, property, obligations, programs, and functions of LTC- NOC from the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to Delgado. The building housing the LTC-NOC (as well as the Orleans Parish Math and Science High School), and the property on Navarre and Orleans Avenues, have been incorporated into the City Park Campus. The building, Building 2, is a multi-functional classroom, laboratory, administrative and faculty office building of more than 150,000 square feet. Workforce Development and Education The Workforce Development and Education programs enhance the quality of life of diverse populations through comprehensive educational programs and services that promote personal, professional, and economic development. Through targeted outreach, Delgado provides flexible educational services including credit and non-credit continuing education, workforce development and customized professional 12

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