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Officials plan new career center in Washington-Wilkes
Officials from Athens Technical College and Washington-Wilkes County recently shoveled some sand to highlight plans
for a new educational facility going into an historic building on Lexington Avenue in Washington. The college and county leaders
held a symbolic ground-breaking ceremony April 17 for the Washington-Wilkes Athens Technical College Career Center, which
should be ready for service in about four to five months.
The new center represents a new location and expansion of Athens Technical College’s adult learning center. The adult
learning center provides basic and remedial math courses; academic courses at the secondary level to help adults prepare for the
GED test; English as a second language classes; and assessment and self-improvement skills needed for jobs or additional training.
Work on the new career center involves renovating and adapting a circa-1870s building that originally served as a Catholic
orphanage and boarding school named St. Joseph’s Academy and later became Wilkes Academy private school that closed in the
1990s.
The Athens Technical College facility will take up about 9,000 square feet of the old structure and will feature four
classrooms, two offices, a computer room, an adult learning room and a small auditorium/meeting room in the building’s old
chapel.
When the new career center opens, it’s palette of programs will include the GED classes and other adult learning courses,
as well as a computer lab for workforce services offered by the state Department of Labor’s Georgia OneStop and other programs,
and a two-way link for satellite instruction from Athens Technical College classes in Athens.
The building is next to the Washington-Wilkes Parks and Recreation Center.
Don Nelson
706 227-5460
http://www.athenstech.edu/Spotlight.cfm?i=357
4/30/2012
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