Naming the new media building

Next week, the VUC Board will decide on the name for the new media buliding. A recent naming contest resulted in the proposed name: "the Sivert Aarflot building". 

The VUC Board meets September 10th and one of the items on the agenda is naming of the new media building on campus. 

A naming contest this summer resulted in several suggestions, which in turn were reviewed by staff at the Faculty of Media and Journalism and representatives of the VUC management. Separate review processes both came up with the suggestion "the Sivert Aarflot buliding".

Sivert Aarflot (1759-1817 - external link Wikipedia) was a Norwegian teacher, government official, printer, writer and publisher, which greatly contributed to the later academic traditions in our region and beyond. In 1808, he established a printing house and private library at his farm outside Volda and in 1810 founded the weekly newspaper "Norsk landboeblad" (the newspaper for the countryside). This was the first printing house to operate outside the major cities in Norway, and the fourth newspaper in Norway at all. The Volda-newspaper "Møre" is a direct descendant from Sivert Aarflot as well as Norsk Landboeblad, and is still run by the Aarflot-family.

Therefore, VUC Director, Karen Lomeland Jacobsen, in the agenda asks the VUC Board to declare that the new media building will be named in honor of Sivert Aarflot, one of the founding fathers of local media and academic traditions. 

See live photo from the construction site for the new media building.