THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, September 7, 1994 TAG: 9409070445
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY PHILIP WALZER, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Short : 31 lines
Paul D. Camp Community College has delayed the opening of its new Suffolk campus until the spring semester.
The college was to have opened the $3.8 million campus on Kenyon Road for the fall semester, President Jerome Friga said.
But construction was delayed by rainy weather in the spring and by unexpected work to remove tree stumps from the site, said L.T. Parker, the college's dean of financial and administrative services.
The campus will be ready in late September, but will not hold classes until the new semester begins in January. Until then, classes will continue at the current Suffolk location on Pinner Street.
Paul D. Camp's main campus is in Franklin.
The college has about 1,600 students, 530 of them at Suffolk. After the new campus opens, the Suffolk enrollment could jump to 900, Friga said.
``All of central and southern Suffolk has really not had direct access to a community college, as have basically all other areas in the Tidewater region,'' Friga said.
The campus is being financed by a statewide general obligation bond issue. by CNB