TTU Gets One Million Dollars to Fund New Building

Tennessee Technological University got a little more than one million dollars this week for a new campus building from the federal department of agriculture and Caney Fork Electric Coop.

The money will help fund the university’s new “STEM Center”- a science, technology, engineering and mathematics center. It will have programs for students from pre-school through college levels.

Mark Hutchins is TTU’s vice president of university advancement. He says the college has already raised about 7-million dollars but isn’t quite where it needs to be to start construction.

“We still have a little bit of money left to raise for this facility. It’s anticipated to be about an 8-million dollar building once we get it through the building process.”

The school hopes to begin drawing the building plan by the fall and start putting the facility up sometime next summer.