Santa Clara University

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Building for the future

The new business school building is designed by Saitta Architects, the firm that designed the adjacent Arts and Sciences building.

Generous donors have provided more than $20 million to date for a new home for the Leavey School of Business. Featuring fully wired classrooms, wireless capabilities, videoconferencing facilities, and flexible classroom space, the building will provide an educational environment for the 21st Century. It will also house the University Center for Science, Technology, and Society.

"We'll be bringing our faculty-now in five locations across campus-and our students together in a space that reproduces the kind of collaborative environment our graduates find in the workplace," says Dean Barry Posner. "We'll have places for spontaneous conversations, brainstorming sessions, focused research, and celebrations of achievement, all the activities that are central to a vital learning community."

Posner also hails the technological capabilities of the new facility.

"Connectivity is a critical element, and we've planned individual Internet access from classroom seats, faculty and administrative offices, seminar rooms, as well as informal meeting areas," he says. "Community is another focus, with large common spaces for ceremonial events and smaller scaled space for group work and one-on-one consultation. I think we will be surprised at the innovations in learning and practice that will come from this new facility."

The support for the building so far has been tremendous, adds Posner. "As our alumni, students, and friends hear about the building, they become excited about the possibilities-and want to be a part of it. I am grateful for each person who has been intrigued by the vision and has made a commitment to bring it to completion."

If fundraising continues on schedule, the new building should be open for business in fall 2005.

For more information, see http://business.scu.edu/building and Business School Plans at a Glance.