Fact Sheet
Location: One John H. Chafee Blvd., Newport, RI, 02840: A 5+-acre site off Ranger Road in
Newport. [Map]
Construction: The $12.4 million construction contract was awarded to DePasquale Building and Realty Company.
Timeline: The campus
is expected to be operational in 2005.
Funding: A voter-approved 2000 referendum has financed the $10.933 million
needed to build the campus. In order to match the
lowest bid for the project, the RI legislature approved an additional
$1.5 million for the project.
Projected enrollment: Approx. 2,000
students. At present, CCRI serves more than 1,000 students in the East
Bay area, many of whom currently attend classes at the CCRI Newport
satellite at Newport Hospital.
Architectural features
►The 65,000-square-foot campus will appear as a single, three-story
building that is in fact three connected structures:
- a student
services complex,
- a classroom/laboratory wing
- a 250-seat
auditorium.
►The building's façade draws from the shingle-style architecture
indigenous to the Newport area. It includes
- a brick ground floor,
- a
shingled second floor
- a pitched roofline punctuated by dormers and
a turret
.
►A light-filled, two-story atrium serves as an enclosed public square
and employs energy-saving, passive solar energy principles.
►The new campus has been designed by J. Michael Abbott of Newport
Collaborative Architects.
Educational features
The new campus will include:
Like CCRI's other campuses, the Newport facility will include a
Success Center, where students may receive such support services as
skills assessments and tutoring.
Programming
The Newport County Campus will house the CCRI
Nursing and
Allied
Health programs currently based at Newport Hospital. This includes
Rehabilitative Sciences, which oversees Occupational Therapy
Assistants, Physical Therapist Assistant and Therapeutic Massage
programs.
CCRI officials are currently collaborating with business leaders to
create programming opportunities of special interest to the East Bay
community. Potential offerings at the Newport Campus include travel &
tourism and marine-trade courses.
