NIC Vo-Tech Programs Booming

Tyler Price, a diesel technology student, uses an electronic level to check the alignment of the drive shafts on a heavy truck Thursday in the shop at North Idaho College. The diesel technology program will get a new home in a new building on the Rathdrum Prairie. (SR photo: Jesse Tinsley)

On the south edge of Rathdrum where farm fields are giving way to development, North Idaho College will start construction in the spring on a new home for trades and industry programs such as welding, machining and diesel technology. The school’s professional-technical programs are scattered throughout the Coeur d’Alene area in tight quarters and some temporary spaces. When the new 110,000-square-foot building opens on Lancaster Road in July 2016, NIC’s core programs all will be there. With a budget that could climb to $20 million, the project also is one of several new buildings in the pipeline for NIC. The college is moving forward on a student services building to share with other college branches in Coeur d’Alene, and officials are mulling a student recreation center proposal as well/Scott Maben, SR. More here.

Question: Do you know someone who has graduated to a good job from NIC’s career technical programs?