Ormond Beach under Consideration for Expansion of Daytona State College

With thousands more students crowding its main campus on International Speedway Boulevard, Daytona State College plans to begin scouting locations for another Halifax-area campus. This week, college President Kent Sharples had what he called "an epiphany" about a second, 100-acre site that can accommodate what he believes could be a doubling of the college's size in the next decade. The college Board of Trustees on Thursday told him to look into it over the next few months.

Trustee Mary Bennett, who serves on the trustees' Visioning Committee, said one possibility is approaching Volusia County schools about selling the college the 100-acre plot where the Advanced Technology College sits near the intersection of Williamson and LPGA boulevards. The school district paid $2 million for that land before the center's opening in 2001.
But other possibilities also exist.

Bennett said other sites on Williamson and Clyde Morris boulevards in Daytona Beach might be available, while Sharples said he wouldn't rule out looking at sites in Ormond Beach and Port Orange.

Surging enrollment is driving the college's big visions. This week, Daytona State counted almost 17,000 college students at Daytona Beach and five branches. The figure represents about a 40-percent jump from five years ago. Another 6,000 students are in adult education programs at the main campus.

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