With students flooding its programs, to say simply that “the Business Division needs a new home” dramatically understates the case.
 

Things were already crowded when the Business Division first occupied the basement floor of the Administration Building eight years ago. Since then the number of students majoring in business has more than doubled from 310 in 2002 to 650 in 2010.
 

The Fine Arts building on the LCSC campus in Lewiston has been home to science experiments, pianos, ballet slippers, and, in recent history, Campus Security and Nursing and Health Sciences faculty offices. The Business Division is hoping, now, to put the building to a different use by renovating the 11,011 square-foot building into the new Business Division office building.

Unlike programs of comparable size (Education and Nursing), the Business Division has no dedicated classroom space on campus. Worse: Full-time faculty members are shoehorned into tiny, conjoined offices that offer no privacy for students wanting to discuss such critical matters as family issues, class schedules, or even grades.

Projected estimates indicate continued and rapid growth for the next several years. You can help give our Business Division the home it deserves by supporting the renovation project now.