NICC holds open house for new Peosta campus library, health additions

Northeast Iowa Community College is inviting the community to celebrate the completion of the new library and health sciences wing on its Peosta campus at an open house Sept. 13.

The open house includes tours from 3 to 6 p.m. and a ribbon cutting at 4:30 p.m. with NICC officials and educators, local and state dignitaries, business leaders and students.

The renovated 57,955 square foot wing features a library, which also serves as the Peosta Branch of the Dubuque County Library, and labs and classrooms for NICC's health programs on campus.

The open house also celebrates the final major construction project at the NICC Peosta campus funded through the $35 million bond levy approved in December 2007, which northeast Iowa voters passed with a supermajority vote at the polls.

The library expansion branch is now 200 percent larger in square area than its previous location and is open to students and the public.

The new health sciences wing houses classrooms, labs, faculty offices and on-site simulation areas for health program students in the Associate Degree in Nursing, Practical Nursing, Radiologic Technology, Respiratory Care, EMT-Paramedic, Dental Assisting and Health Information Technology programs. It also features a coffee shop, a computer café, community meeting rooms and a technology training room for NICC instructors.