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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)
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After Hurricane Gustav, Campuses Clean Up
Cleanup crews scoured Gulf Coast campuses, removing downed limbs and repairing broken windows, while students and staff members forced out by Hurricane Gustav waited for word that they could return.
Lessons From Katrina Improve Colleges' Evacuations for Hurricane Gustav
College officials across the Gulf Coast were cautiously relieved when initial reports suggested the damage wasn't severe.
College of Southern Idaho Cafeteria Goes 'Tray-Less'
Students are also wasting less food because they no longer have the option of overloading their cafeteria trays, says the college's food-services director.
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A Green Building as a Billboard for Science
(A 2006 Chronicle video)
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New Stadium With Luxury Boxes Will Replace Longtime College World Series Home
Omaha, Neb., plans to replace Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium.
(Wikimedia Commons photo by John Workman)
The stadium in which the College World Series has been played since 1950 — a venue that our colleague Brad Wolverton calls “one of the coolest settings of any facility in all college sports” — will be replaced in 2010.
 (Image from College World Series) |
Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium, in Omaha, Neb., opened in 1948 as the city’s Municipal Stadium, and became home to the series two years later. The 23,100-seat venue will be replaced by a new, $140-million facility that will seat 24,000 in a concourse that will wrap all the way around the field.
The new stadium will offer more legroom for fans, more locker rooms for players, and—no surprise here—28 luxury suites, which have become stadium essentials in recent years. Practice facilities and offices will also be part of the complex.
The new stadium is being designed by three architecture firms. The design firm is HOK Sport, while HDR Inc., of Omaha, will be architect and engineer of record. DLR Group is associate architect. The stadium will be built by the city, but the National Collegiate Athletics Association has signed an agreement to use the new facility for 25 years.
The College World Series released this rendering of the new stadium.
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Went to 4 games this year at the CWS. Seats small concourse tiny tiny. We got caught in a torential downpour and grid locked on the concourse. It was absolutely horrible. Love the atmosphere but needs to be replaced.
— jim Aug 7, 10:36 AM #
Wow! All of that for ONLY $5,833.33 per seat in construction costs.
— John Aug 7, 04:47 PM #