January 27, 2006

Juggling the Costs of Campus 'Amenities' When Students Help Decide What to Spend

By BEN GOSE

Administrators at the University of California at San Diego have known since the late 1990s that the Price Center, the campus's primary student union, needed to be renovated and expanded. The building itself isn't that old — it was finished in 1989 — but it was built for a campus of 15,000 students, and recently the university has been adding an average of more than 1,000 new students each year. The master plan calls for the 26,500-student university to grow to 30,000

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