Construction on the Norman Levan Center for the Humanities is expected to be finished by mid-February with an opening ceremony scheduled for March 4 and a Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce mixer on Feb. 24.

The Levan Center will be host to several seminars, the faculty Colloquia and a series of events centered on the Humanities, according to Levan Center director Jack Hernandez.

Bakersfield College will also be collaborating with St. John’s College, who will be sending a professor to lecture at the Levan Center once per semester with the first scheduled for March 17, according to Mike Stepanovich, executive of the Bakersfield College Foundation.