trustworthiness --while also teaching them welding. The faculty are the secret sauce to make sure that they’re ready to succeed in the workplace as soon as they graduate.” Sometimes, successful students return to LBCC just to check in or in other cases, to repay the school for what it has given them. “The thing that makes me most proud is when some of the students who graduate, then work for four or five years, come back and teach part-time in the evening for us,” says Rose. “That makes me feel really good for them wanting to come back and give back to the school the way we tried to give to them when they first came through.” CAPITAL PROJECTS Regarding new capital investments, Avery reports that because of a voter-supported bond issue, plus a significant investment from the state legislature, the school is planning to build a new facility for its agriculture education programs. “Agriculture is very important to the mid-valley,” she shares.“This will give us space on a 55-acre lot, close to campus, where students will have amazing new facilities and opportunities for hands-on education with a larger variety of livestock than we currently have.And we’re also planning a veterinary technician Lisa Avery 54 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 11, ISSUE 07
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