Highlight: Singer gift starts CSTI Foundation.  $1.7 million expansion to CSTI completed.

  Photos of Edgar Sessions, The Falcon, 1970, p. 15.  Also in JPG.

"Carrying the over-all responsibility for the growth of CSTI is our competent leader" begins the caption.

  "Stanford University Impressed by Program Offered at CSTI,” Chattanooga Times, January 19, 1970, no page. 
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“Stanford University has been added to the growing list of admirers of Chattanooga State Technical Institute, and to the growing list of employers of CSTI graduates.”

  "CSTI Power Cited,” Chattanooga Post, January 29, 1970, no page.  Also in JPG.

“’Our product is knowledge based work.  And so whereas knowledge without application in work is rightly considered by today’s students to be irrelevant, and whereas work without foundation in knowledge is rightly seen by today’s students to be obsolescent; a technical education – workpower based on knowledge – is the key to the future,’ concluded Sessions.”

  "CSTI Part-times Amount to 7,000 in Past 4 Years,” by Charles Quinton, Chattanooga Times, January 30, 1970, no
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"More than 7,000 Chattanooga area residents have enrolled as part-time students at Chattanooga State Technical Institute during the past four years. to upgrade employment here, Edgar H. Sessions, CSTI director, told the Chattanooga Rotary Club Thursday.  In a very real sense, upgrading these 7,000 working-taxpayers has been our most valuable achievement, since their education has been applied immediately to improving their present jobs,'  Sessions said. ... 'In  our brief four-year history, we have graduated a total of 300 students with associate degrees in engineering or science technologies,' Sessions said. ... Commenting on the faculty at CSTI, Sessions said the local school was the first post-secondary two-year education institution in Tennessee to win both Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and Engineers' Council for Profession Development accreditation."

  "Singer Gift Starts CSTI Foundation,” by Clarence Bruce, Chattanooga Times, February 2, 1970, no page.  Also in JPG.

“A gift of $1,000 from the Singer Co., Cobble Division, will be used as ‘seed money’ for the start of a ‘Chattanooga State Technical Institute Foundation,’ major purpose of which would be support for continuing program development at CSTI, according to Director Edgar H. Sessions.”

  "Criticize School Program Day Held by CSTI Students,” Chattanooga News-Free Press, March 4, 1970, no page.  Also
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“During its youthful existence the school has more than tripled in enrollment, and graduates are receiving immediate employment with surprisingly high salaries in the technical fields in the Chattanooga area.”

  "CSTI Expansion Nearing Finish,” Chattanooga Times, June 27, 1970, no page.  Also in JPG.

“A significant factor in the unexpectedly large growth of the institution since Sessions became director has been the high praise accorded the comprehensive and thorough preparation students receive in their chosen technological occupation.”

  "CSTI Ability to Help Industries Is Outlined at Engineers Club,” Chattanooga Times, November 3, 1970, no page. 
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“Chattanooga State Technical Institute has the capability to incorporate all of its facilities to help solve virtually all problems related to technically-oriented courses and training programs of private businesses in Greater Chattanooga, two faculty members said Monday.”

  "New $1.7-Million CSTI Building Completed,” by Joe Gossett, Chattanooga Times, December 13, 1970, no page. 
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“He [Sessions] noted that the present 67,000-square-foot building, on CSTI’s 75-acre campus on Amnicola Highway, which was occupied in September, 1967, was designed to accommodate 350 students.  In three years, however, the enrollment has more than tripled, said Sessions, with a present enrollment of 1,180 students.  The new building has approximately 44,000 square feet, bringing the total to 117,000 square feet for the entire CSTI campus plant.”