Category: Education

Facility expected to be finished in 2022 Construction of the Southside Campus is still underway and on track despite a year filled with hurricanes and a pandemic.  Del Mar College’s new campus features three areas of study known as the Centers for Excellence. These include architecture and drafting technology, biosciences, and hospitality and culinary arts.  In 2013, the Board of Regents approved a $6 million purchase of 96 acres of land for the new campus, located at the intersection of Yorktown Boulevard and Rodd Field Road. Taxpayers in 2016 approved a $139 million bond to begin construction of the campus. …

86% say it would help them stay more engaged The majority of students who responded to a recent survey about on-campus housing support the idea, the Board of Regents heard at its November meeting. A total of 536 surveys were filled out before the Oct. 23 deadline, the Student Government Association said. Students received the emails from DMC’s Division of Student Affairs at the beginning of October. Questions on the survey included students’ information and major, as well as whether they would be interested in on-campus housing if it were available.  The college originally had dorms built on campus property…