JALC Granted $100,000 for Construction Management Program
Construction management instructors at John A. Logan College were beaming Wednesday after nailing down a $100,000 grant from the National Housing Endowment. The money will be used to create a new, two-year residential construction management program at the College.
"We are tremendously pleased to obtain this grant," said Dr. Robert Mees, president of John A. Logan College. "It will give our construction management program a chance to really grow."
An effort to secure the grant started with instructors Mike DeMattei and Greg Walker competing against 43 other colleges, and ended in Cambridge, Mass., where the instructors made a final pitch for the money at Harvard University.
"It says a lot for our program at John A. Logan College to be selected out of so many other applicants for this grant," Walker said. "We're very excited about what we will be able to offer our students with this money."
The National Housing Endowment is the philanthropic arm of the National Association of Home Builders. The Endowment seeks leading two and four year colleges and universities to help them create, expand, or enhance existing residential construction management programs or develop new programs in that academic area.
One of the key goals of the Endowment is to encourage academic institutions to provide programs that respond to the current state of the home building industry and anticipate and prepare for its future. Another key goal is to increase the number of college graduates who are qualified and want to enter and succeed in the residential construction profession.
"There have been a number of building professionals across the nation who have been exposed to our campus through this application process," Mees noted. "This grant proves that we have one of the top programs in the nation."
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