Florida Community College at Jacksonville hosted a reception Tuesday night to celebrate the opening of the newest wing in its Advanced Technology Center at the Downtown Campus. The wing includes laboratories for automotive, computer-aided drafting and design, bioinformatics and biomedical technologies, plus a pair of employer training labs. The entire center houses 125,000 square feet of training space. Also at the ceremony, University of North Florida president David Kline and FCCJ president Steven Wallace signed an articulation agreement which allows the transfer of an associate degree in science computer programming and analysis to a bachelor’s of science in computer and information sciences at UNF. “This facility is designed to be highly responsive to employers in the community,” said Wallace. “We tried to design into the building capacities that no other has. This gives our region a distinct advantage as we seek companies to relocate here.”
Due to the urging of principals at the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, the facility now provides space to employers new to the area for start-up training of personnel and for the enhancement of existing workers in the community.