Eastfield College Pleasant Grove campus opens with big celebration
Categories: Education, Featured
Written By: Shawn Williams
On Monday, Dallas County Community Colleges District celebrated the opening of the Eastfield College campus in Pleasant Grove. Leaders and citizens alike were excited about the new campus at 802 S. Buckner Blvd.
Not only will the campus be used for educating Dallas citizens, but it will also house the Southeast Dallas Chamber of Commerce, the Southeast Dallas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and the Wilkinson Center.
Eastfield Pleasant Grove already has 300 students registered for the Fall Session. The theme of the day was how the Dallas workforce lags behind in the area of education, and that DCCCD is the largest college system in Texas. The citizens of Southeast Dallas have another landmark to be proud of, and hopefully the city as a whole will embrace it.
August 7th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
This was such a special and remarkable occassion speaking to an amazing turn of events that lead to it even being possible. Sadly I could not attend. But it made my heart swell to hear that the opening was a fabulous even.
Indeed it was, and a fabulous eventuality going forward. Congratulations to one and all, not the least of which is my hope for the young whose futures will experience a positive life trajectory…learning that no gun ever made is as powerful as an education.