New Master Plan
New River's high quality of education and low tuition has caused a rapid increase in enrollment. Because of this, New River has devised a "Master Plan" to rebuild each campus, with the headquarters and largest campus remaining in Beckley. Phase One of the site plan will be the creation of an efficiently designed structure to house multiple functions. The Central Administration suite is planned to be located on the main floor level. Also included on this level is an easily accessible, 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2) technology center that can serve both the academic and workforce development training needs of the counties served by the campus. Appropriate space is dedicated to student services including development education, library and digital resource center, as well as a “front door” presence for college recruitment, admissions, and marketing services. The organization of the space along a powerful central axis will establish a sense of community within the structure, accommodate a continuous series of student and faculty interaction space, and create a clear connection from the main campus entrance to the subsequent phases of formal green spaces. The upper floors of the facility will provide for a variety of general academic, science and health laboratory, and faculty spaces. The vertical circulation core, combined with both axial and radial circulation spines, can yield a broad range of classroom sizes and arrangements, while maintaining close connectivity with offices and, more importantly, student gathering areas. Architecturally, the Beckley campus of New River Community and Technical College should be a dramatic expression of modern collegiate design. With strong foundations in classic materials, proportions, and details successfully integrated into a contemporary fabric of form and space, this facility will be attractive to students and business and industry partners of the region.
While the administration has attempted to obtain funding for this project over the past several years, no funding has been appropriated by the state to allow the facilitation of the "Master Plan". Partially as a result of its separation from Bluefield State College, the institution has recently completed several major projects. A new gigabit network with fiber to each of six locations throughout southern West Virginia was completed in August 2009. An entirely new VoIP phone system was completed in January 2010. And the College completed the transition from WebCT to ANGEL in January 2010 as well.
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