{"id":284138,"date":"2024-07-01T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=284138"},"modified":"2024-07-02T09:37:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:37:13","slug":"vcsu-celebrates-a-ground-breaking-for-mccarthy-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=284138","title":{"rendered":"VCSU Celebrates McCarthy Hall Groundbreaking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Valley City, ND \u2013<\/strong>Valley City State University (VCSU) will have a groundbreaking event at 10:30 a.m.,&nbsp;Tuesday, July 9,&nbsp;outside of&nbsp;McCarthy&nbsp;Hall&nbsp;to officially mark the start of transformational work on&nbsp;the historic building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McCarthy&nbsp;Hall will become the new home for VCSU\u2019s nationally-recognized&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vcsu.edu\/departments\/education-and-graduate-studies\/\">School of Education and Technology<\/a>&nbsp;and STEM Education. VCSU faculty, community members and leaders in education will be available for interviews after the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis facility will help our future educators learn in an environment that enhances their experience and prepares them for their own classroom. This project will help make&nbsp;McCarthy&nbsp;Hall another gem on our campus,\u201d President Alan LaFave said. \u201cWe are so grateful for the generous support from the North Dakota Legislature and our donors that have made this possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McCarthy&nbsp;Hall was built in the early 1930s and was used as a training school for prospective teachers attending VCSU. When the training school was closed the building housed a wide variety of VCSU courses including technology education and psychology. The renovation of&nbsp;McCarthy&nbsp;Hall is a part of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vcsualumni.org\/\">first-ever capital campaign project<\/a>&nbsp;at VCSU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The $13.5 million project is made possible through the generous support of donors, VCSU funds and $11.5 million allocated by the North Dakota Legislature and approved by Gov. Doug Burgum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about the groundbreaking event, McCarthy Hall or to schedule an interview please contact Tammy Jo A. Taft,&nbsp;director of&nbsp;marketing and&nbsp;communication, by emailing&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:tammyjo.taft@vcsu.edu\">tammyjo.taft@vcsu.edu<\/a>&nbsp;or calling (701) 845-7227.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City, ND \u2013Valley City State University (VCSU) will have a groundbreaking event at 10:30 a.m.,&nbsp;Tuesday, July 9,&nbsp;outside of&nbsp;McCarthy&nbsp;Hall&nbsp;to officially mark the start of transformational work on&nbsp;the historic building. McCarthy&nbsp;Hall will become the new home for VCSU\u2019s nationally-recognized&nbsp;School of Education and Technology&nbsp;and STEM Education. VCSU faculty, community members and leaders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":284139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284169,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284138\/revisions\/284169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/284139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}