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Pensacola State College dedicated its new cybersecurity center Tuesday, which includes four classrooms and a cyber warfare range for students.
The center is in the college s new $15 million Baars Technology Building, which opened last month. PSC cybersecurity educators say the new center will help accommodate the program s growth over the last few years. This facility is very timely because we were stretched very thin, said Kirk Bradley, dean of baccalaureate students and academic support.
The college s cybersecurity associate degree program has grown from about 50 students when it was created in 2015 to more than 350 students today. The bachelor s degree program has grown from about 30 students in 2017 to now more than 120 students.
Baars Technical Building at Pensacola St. College.
Credit Dave Dunwoody, WUWF Public Media
Pensacola State College’s newest addition is now ready for students, after Friday’s ribbon-cutting at its Ninth Avenue campus.
The $15 million Baars Technology Building is a state-of-the-art, two-story facility containing almost 24,000 sq. ft.
“We’ll accommodate our growing cybersecurity program, our math lab which will be on the left side [of the building],” said PSC President Ed Meadows. “And other faculty and classrooms for mathematics and computer science.”
Meadows said the price tag was not 15 million originally, but the project ran so long that the cost increased over time. The project, he adds, did get help from the Escambia and Santa Rosa County Commissions, along with then-Pensacola mayor Ashton Hayward.
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