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College Employees Value Campus Environment, 'Chronicle' 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. (Chronicle photograph of Washington & Lee U.)
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)
Art & Architecture Renovations Near Completion at Yale U.
Paul Rudolph's 1963 Brutalist icon is getting a makeover, plus an addition by Charles Gwathmey.
Guest Blogger: Marc Mayerson
Like swashbuckling movie heroes, facilities planners take on herculean tasks.
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Campus Planners Discuss Challenges in Attaining Sustainability
Analyzing How Students Choose Colleges Is Key Topic at Meeting of Planners
Specialized Developers Helping More Colleges to Meet Housing Needs
New campus buildings
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A Green Building as a Billboard for Science
(A 2006 Chronicle video)
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Shop Talk: Hawaii Soap-Scandal Update, Some Buildings Get No Respect, and More
Post-season soap-dispenser update: Legislators in Hawaii have agreed to give the University of Hawaii $157.9-million for both new construction and a backlog of maintenance and repair problems that the 10-campus university system has estimated at $351.5-million, according to The Honolulu Advertiser. A conference committee that settled differences between House and Senate spending bills bumped the amount up slightly from earlier totals, but a bleak state-revenue outlook prevented the Legislature from doing more. The university’s deferred maintenance became a statewide issue in part because of comments by the star quarterback at the university system’s Manoa campus, Colt Brennan. “We spent all spring with no soap in our showers,” he complained a year ago. “Half of the soap dispensers are broken. How hard is it for us to have soap in our lockers? Isn’t that something that should be a health issue?”
Not everyone, it seems, loathes the Mosse Humanities Building at the U. of Wisconsin at Madison. (U. of Wisconsin at Madison image)
The Rodney Dangerfield of campus buildings? Now that it’s slated for replacement, the 1968 Mosse Humanities Building at the University of Wisconsin at Madison is finally getting a little respect—much of it courtesy of Arnold Alanen, a professor of landscape architecture at the university. After publishing an essay about the building’s role in the architectural history of the campus, he also talked about the building at the annual awards banquet of the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation, according to The Capital Times. Among other things, Mr. Alanen said, the building’s fortress-like quality was a reaction to campus unrest during the Vietnam War era. The structure is “a good timepiece of the thinking of the period,” he said.
Researchers replace cows, calves: The University of Tennessee at Knoxville plans to convert a 220-acre university dairy farm beside a bend in the Tennessee River into a research campus with up to two million square feet of new construction, according to The Knoxville News Sentinel. But first the university has to move its dairy cows elsewhere, placate residents of nearby neighborhoods, and satisfy state and tribal officials that prehistoric remains discovered along the river bank are being properly cataloged and preserved. The new campus, which is expected to cost some $1.3-billion, will include facilities for researchers in biomedical science, climate and the environment, energy, materials science, nanotechnology, and supercomputing.
Wait, there’s more: Washington State University has received four proposals to redevelop a 3.5-acre property by its Spokane campus. … Saint Vincent College, in Latrobe, Pa., will expand its science complex, renovating 60,000 square feet of space in a 1969 building and adding 45,000 square feet of new space. … Plans for a new 110,000-square-foot, $48-million student center at the University of Texas at Austin are complete, awaiting only the approval of the university’s Board of Regents. The project will be paid for by student fees. … A private developer in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., will construct a 95,000-square-foot, $19.5-million mixed-use structure with apartments, classrooms, retail space, and day-care facilities. The lead tenant will be King’s College. … A Greek-American businessman tells the Chester, N.Y., Chronicle that he hopes to build a new university on a 268-acre, county-owned site. The centerpiece of the campus, he said, would be a replica of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia.
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Hate, hate, hate the Mosse building. I can never find my way around and the poor air circulation makes it dangerous for art students. There are better “New Brutalism” buildings on campus.
— heartland May 5, 04:31 PM #