Danville Area Community College is holding a dedication ceremony at 11:00 a.m. Friday (June 25, 2021) for what is becoming Julius W Hegeler II Hall. DACC President Stephen Nacco says the former U.S. Army Reserve building located near the northeast corner of the campus will become the home for the college’s nursing program….
Audio Player{AUDIO: ‘’As soon as next year we could have the whole rehabilitation of the first floor done, and move into that nursing classrooms – expanded classrooms – and the faculty, and start running our Nursing program exclusively out of there.’’}
Phase one renovation of the building along East Main Street is costing $3-million dollars. President Nacco says DACC is still looking to secure $3.8 million dollars in state funding for phase two. He outlined what that would involve…
Audio Player{‘’The second floor would become — somewhere down the road beyond that – would be the home for medical imaging. So that would be echocardiography, sonography, and radiation technology.
The late Julius W. Hegeler II provided $3-million dollars in funding toward the efforts to expand Danville Area Community College’s Nursing program at the new location.
The second phase, including a half-million dollar storage facility, would require a local match of twenty-five percent – or just over one-million dollars.