Clinton Community College (CCC) is planning to move its operations to the SUNY Plattsburgh
campus beginning with the fall 2025 semester. The community college will maintain
and enhance its two-year associate degree and other academic programs along with its
unique identity. This is not a merger.
Growing and maintaining layers of higher education within Clinton County is important
to the North Country’s students, families, businesses and more. The ability of CCC
to continue to provide degrees and programs depends on its financial stability, accreditation
and enrollment. The transition will remain focused on these elements.
Details & Progress
Most of CCC's classrooms and administrative offices will be located in the current
Redcay Hall building and at 133 Court Street (currently housing the Center for the
Study of Canada). The work continues to be guided by a joint coordinating committee
of faculty and staff from both institutions. This collaborative planning and timeline
development will inform final decision making.
CCC’s shift of operations and additional spaces for shared services will continue
to occur over time. As work advances, SUNY Plattsburgh will always protect its campus
and ensure its continued success academically, financially, and regionally. Our campus
is committed to ensuring that SUNY Plattsburgh remains the flagship university of
the North Country.
CCC will begin delivery of academic programming in fall 2025. Key factors for co-location:
declining CCC enrollment, MSCHE accreditation, budget/financial strength. As of now,
CCC enrollment increased this fall by 52 students and CCC has submitted mandatory
monitoring report to MSCHE with a site visit to follow sometime this month.
SUNY Plattsburgh will vacate Redcay Hall and 133 Court Street after May 17, 2025.
To accomplish this move-out, departments and unit faculty/staff have been in conversations
with academic affairs, enrollment and student success (ESS) and campus facilities
(A&F) since last May to identify new space for their operations. These collaborative
discussions have been designed to determine specific space needs, necessary renovations,
and/or space upgrades to best support the department's operations.
A phased timeline for CCC occupancy may be possible if the newly renovated SUNY Plattsburgh
spaces become available before May 17, and some of our departments are agreeable and
able to move sooner than May 17, 2025. For example, the GWS department has already
moved to Hawkins 102.
At this time, A&F, ESS and academic affairs are developing project completion timelines
with the criminal justice, anthropology, sociology, Center for the Study of Canada,
and admissions departments. The process involves engagement with the Plattsburgh CCC
Transition Team and team members working directly with representatives from each department
and program area that will be relocating.
Current rundown on relocation spaces:
Anthropology: Beaumont, 3rd floor
Criminal Justice Criminology: Ward, 2nd floor
Gender and Women’s Studies: Hawkins, Suite 102 (upgrades completed, move completed)
Sociology: Beaumont, 4th floor
Center for the Study of Canada: Walk-thru with Canadian Studies and Capital Planning
& Construction Expeditionary Studies house on Broad Street scheduled for Fri., Sept.
6, 2024.
Expeditionary Studies House: Beaumont, 2nd floor (offices). A&F continues to finalize
storage space in Beaumont basement.
Capital Planning & Construction Team and SUNY Plattsburgh ITS are currently evaluating
needs for these new academic spaces, considering existing conditions of flooring,
ceiling and walls and lighting. ITS is checking existing data/phone/network conditions
and needs.
There remains ongoing work to identify additional instructional spaces for CCC (in
addition to Redcay/Court Street) — nursing, science lab and art/drawing spaces. No
decisions have been finalized to date. This work remains in progress, and is being
informed by Holly Heller-Ross and the joint coordinating committee.
Teams of academic faulty from arts and sciences are reviewing surplus academic equipment
on CCC campus to identify any that we may want to acquire at SUNY Plattsburgh. Art
review is completed and initial sciences review is scheduled for Sept. 4. Once items
are identified, their relocation to our campus will be coordinated.
Plattsburgh Relocation Transition Team
The Plattsburgh Relocation Transition Team was reactivated in July 2024. The team
is working to understand additional CCC needs in Redcay/Court locations (utilities,
Wi-Fi, grounds/facilities maintenance, etc) and will present those findings to leadership.
Current team members include:
Holly Heller-Ross: Coordinator/Liaison between SUNY Plattsburgh and CCC
Marcus Tye: Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Karen McGrath: Vice President for Enrollment and Student Success
Allison Heard: Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Magen Renadette: Interim Vice President for Administration and Finance
Heather Haskins: Executive Director, Strategic Communications and Marketing
Denise Simard: Dean, Education, Health & Human Services
Meg Pearson: Dean, Arts and Sciences
TJ Myers: Director and Chief Information Officer for Information Technology Services
Sarah Reyell: Director of Human Resource Services
Bridget Haina: Chair of Faculty Senate/Assoc. Professor of Digital Media Production
Robert Trombley: Manager of Capital Planning and Construction
Jamie Winters: Assistant to the Dean, School of Arts and Sciences