SEL, Schweitzers donate $3 million to LCSC’s new career technical training center

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Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories is giving $2 million to help fund Lewis-Clark State College’s new Career and Technical Education Center to be built in the Lewiston Orchards. In addition, SEL Founder and President Ed Schweitzer and his wife, Beatriz, will donate $1 million to the project.

The 3 million dollar gift is the largest cash donation the college has ever received, and provides nearly a third of the $10 million in matching funds the State of Idaho has required for the $20 million project, which is expected to be completed by 2020.

LCSC’s new facility will be a regional CTE center, serving the needs of students from LCSC, neighboring Lewiston High School, and throughout the region. The 75,000 square-foot facility will house most of LCSC’s Technical and Industrial Division programs.

As part of the agreement, SEL and LCSC are collaborating in a variety of ways, including curriculum design for electrical technician training, in the hiring of instructors, and in promoting the CTE center and its programs throughout the region.

Other donors who have contributed toward the project include CCI/Speer, Avista Foundation, Clearwater Paper, Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation, and an anonymous donor. (LCSC)

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