LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — Lyon College has now unveiled the first rendering of what the campus expansion in Little Rock will look like.
It will include the first-ever veterinary school in the state.
Construction is already underway in East Village for the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, but soon, that will be a common scene as Lyon College adds several new buildings.
"To be working with our new deans, and working with folks around the country to design these facilities, that's really cool," said Lyon College President, Melissa Taverner.
Right now, all that sits on this property is the Heifer International building, but in a couple of years, it will look different.
The two front buildings will be the School of Oral Health and Dental Medicine and the School of Veterinarian Medicine.
There will be two additional parking lots as well.
"The veterinarians and honestly the dentists we have already practicing in Little Rock, they are amazing. They are wonderful professionals and they provide such service to the citizens and their animals in the state. We just need more of everybody," Taverner described.
Both schools will be three-year programs. The students will learn in the classroom at the beginning and toward the end of their studies they will practice under licensed professionals.
"They are going to come prepared, but they will get the real seasoning, the real experience doing an extraction or getting to deliver a cow," said Taverner.
Lyon College hopes to have the schools open by the middle of 2025 and they will hopefully have applications for students open by next year.
