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A new $10.7
million classroom building is planned to alleviate the shortage of
classrooms that has made class frequency and scheduling difficult.
With enrollment expected to soar over the coming years, this
multi-disciplinary facility will be conveniently located near the
Student Union and the new Library, providing five medium, three
large, and two extra-large lecture halls, plus a suite of offices
for General Studies faculty and administration.
Side-by-side, the Classroom Building and
the new Library will be directly west of and adjacent to the
Education and Business Complex and will be a short walk across the
resaca footbridge from the Student Union.
Dr. Peter Gawenda, interim dean of the
College of Applied Technology and General Studies who serves on the
advisory committee for the new classroom building, reminisced about
the vision that he and others had in 1992 that the university would
soon outgrow its facilities. “We knew there would be many needs,
including a multi-disciplinary classroom building to accommodate
student volume and the scheduling of core classes taken by large
numbers of students before branching off into their chosen major fields of
study.”
The Classroom building and new Library
will hug the natural botanical garden that is being preserved by the
university. Native plants in this area are undisturbed. Healthy
trees that are on the footprint of both buildings will be removed
and cared for at a site off-campus during construction. These will
be replanted in the same area or elsewhere on campus where trees are
needed.
Students will be accommodated in the
parking lot, which has 1,200 spaces, across University Boulevard. | 
