NEW COLLEGE OF PHARMACY TO BEGIN CLASSES IN AUGUST 2012 IN CRESTVIEW

As noted before, the one of the newest College Campuses will be opening their doors in August of this year. What does this mean? It means another higher education institution has its eyes on Crestview with growth on their minds. This has also opened the doors for a new Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Company to look seriously at Crestview for their new plant.

Crestview FAMU campus opening in August
By BRIAN HUGHES brianh@crestviewbulletin.com
2012-03-30 13:44:15
The first class of students will enter the doors at Florida A&M University's Rural Diversity Healthcare Center in August. “We will have 30 students in the first class and we will be adding 30 students every year for a total of 120 students," said Dr. Margareth Lacrose-Pierre, the director of the new FAMU satellite campus opening in the historic downtown Alatex building. “After the first successful graduation we will be able to increase the class by 25 percent every year. That is our plan.” Lacrose-Pierre's remarks were made at the Monday meeting of the Crestview City Council. "The College of Pharmacy will be the pride of the city,” Lacrosse-Pierre said, addressing her remarks as much to the audience as to the council. Of the first class of students who have received their acceptance letters to the school, “the majority of them are coming from right here in Crestview,” she said. The college is working on developing affiliations with local and regional medical facilities, and has already penned agreements with the Veterans Administration, the hospital at Eglin Air Force Base, and Sacred Heart and Baptist Hospitals in Pensacola. Lacrose-Pierre promised the school will be an involved member of the Crestview community and will be represented at events such as health fairs, career fairs, and recruiting students from local high schools and middle schools. “We will be directly involved with city activities,” she said. “At your Triple B this weekend, we were right in the middle, eating and fellowshipping.” “Only God knows how high the sky is, but we will try to reach it,” Lacrose-Pierre said.