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There are 387 students enrolled this semester, including 101 high school students.<\/p>\n
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The site has grown steadily since 2021, when there were 136 students.<\/p>\n
Last year,\u00a0HVCC asked the State University of New York\u00a0and the state Education Department for permission to turn HVCC North into a full branch. Permission was granted in time for the fall semester.<\/p>\n
For now, students can only complete five programs at the branch. They can also take general education courses for many other programs.<\/p>\n
The five programs are: Clean Energy Management, Electrical Construction and Maintenance, Electrical Engineering Technology-Electronics, Engineering Science and the Health Sciences certificate.<\/p>\n
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HVCC set up the same laboratories and hands-on workshops that are on the Troy campus. They include an electrical lab that looks like a house under construction, so students can practice putting in wires, outlets and electrical panels.<\/p>\n
\u201cSame experience and level of quality,\u201d Ashdown said. \u201cIn my opinion, the labs are a little nicer because they are newer.\u201d<\/p>\n
The laboratories have also allowed the branch to offer classes it could not offer before, including biotechnology and organic chemistry.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat not only opens up more doors for the sciences but also the health services,\u201d\u00a0Ashdown said.<\/p>\n
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Becoming a branch has led to an increase in full-time students, which has naturally led to more student activities.\u00a0Ashdown sees students kicking soccer balls, playing table tennis and other pickup games between classes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just a great vibe,\u201d he said. \u201cIf Malta\u2019s closer to where you live and you can cut your commute down, it\u2019s really a wonderful place to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HVCC North Operations Coordinator Matty Blair provides a tour to prospective students at an open house in December.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[288,67,844,610,9,11,10,49,51,50,35844,31841],"class_list":{"0":"post-81171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-latestnews","11":"tag-local","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-new-york-state","16":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-state-news","18":"tag-rensco","19":"tag-sarco"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}