‘The stepchildren:’ Community colleges struggle to fund buildings for growing workforce programs - Open Campus

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‘The stepchildren:’ Community colleges struggle to fund buildings for growing workforce programs - Open Campus

BOONEVILLE — Northeast Mississippi Community College was running out of space, so after years of saving, it bought an empty furniture warehouse five minutes outside this small town.  The plan is to fill the 350,000 square feet with the college’s growing career-technical education programs, setting up everything from classrooms, labs and offices to conference space that could support economic development in the five rural counties that comprise t…