Lamar Institute of Technology, Multi-Purpose Building

摘要

Southeast Texas is a melting pot of diverse cultures who's beginnings spring from the discovery of oil at Spindletop in the famous "Lucas Gusher" that inaugurated the Texas oil industry in Beaumont, Texas in 1901. Beaumont's economy is still driven by the petrochemical plants and oil refineries today. Due to the oil industry's need for skilled workers along with other industries who derive their incomes from the support of that industry, the Lamar Institute of Technology has thrived and grown in southeast Texas. Today LIT has a growing population of Allied Health Students which this building accommodates. Because of the need for a technical school education by individuals who do not wish to pursue a college education, LIT's student population had grown beyond their ability to accommodate their students. In 2001, the Texas Legislature allocated funds for a renovation of an old sorority dormitory on the adjacent campus of Lamar University into new classrooms, computer labs, allied health labs and faculty offices.