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Academic Centers for Athletes Draw Donors
More than a dozen university athletics programs have added lavish new facilities in recent years, and academic-services budgets are soaring, a Chronicle survey finds. (Photograph courtesy of Texas A&M U.)
College Employees Value Campus Environment, Survey Finds
When a Chronicle survey asked college employees what they value about their jobs, they put the physical environment in which they work at the top of the list.
Rise in Tornadoes, Floods Poses Risk to Colleges
What if the sort of extreme weather that has left the University of Iowa inundated in floodwaters is not a freak event? What if it is a sign of things to come? (Photograph by AP Images)
Other News
Colleges Get Greener, but Not in Teaching
U. of Toledo Decides United Way Building Is Unsuitable for Its Use
New campus buildings
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A Green Building as a Billboard for Science
(A 2006 Chronicle video)
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Buildings & Grounds is written by Scott Carlson (left) and Lawrence Biemiller (right). Scott Carlson writes about architecture, facilties, energy, and sustainability, among other topics. Lawrence Biemiller writes about architecture and facilities and contributes to Notes from Academe. What's happening on your campus? Let us know.
Betting Heavily on Housing
Indiana U. of Pennsylvania is putting up $270-million worth of new campus housing. (Photograph by Scott Goldsmith)
Indiana University of Pennsylvania is making a bold gamble. It’s spending $270-million to replace all of its old student housing with LEED-certified residence halls featuring amenities intended to attract students—six styles of suites with wired and wireless Internet access, self-controlled heat and air-conditioning, and carpeting.
The new buildings are being constructed in four phases, Beckie Supiano reports in an article in this week’s issue of The Chronicle. The new buildings are at the heart of the campus, and include public spaces on their lower floors.
One change is being made midway through the project: Students living in the first of the new buildings say that the walls are too thin, and that they miss the comparatively soundproof cinder block of the old dormitories. So buildings in the next phase of construction will have thicker walls.
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