The university has tried running its current plant on natural gas in the past, and student groups have called on the university to move faster toward climate neutrality.
Campus Construction
6/18/2013
6/18/2013
Construction of The College of New Jersey’s planned $50 million student housing and retail complex has been delayed a year by negotiations over the complicated public-private partnership behind the project, according to the college and the developer.
6/18/2013
Valencia College plans to spend more than $80 million to buy land and start building new campuses in Poinciana and Apopka within the next few years, according to a proposal school officials presented to the board of trustees.
6/12/2013
The Department of Veterans Affairs will donate 65 unused acres and about 20 buildings to dramatically expand Tuskegee University under a property transfer that is awaiting congressional approval.
6/12/2013
Columbia State Community College (Tenn.) President Janet Smith publicly unveiled the first drawing of a new $36.4 million Franklin campus this week and said she expects its first phase to be completed by 2016.
6/12/2013
When Oklahoma City Community College students returned to campus Monday, many of their classes weren't where they expected. School officials spent last week finding classroom space for all the college's summer courses after a tornado swept through campus, causing heavy damage to several buildings.
6/11/2013
When Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center opens its new critical care and cancer tower in late 2014, the emergency department will double in size and feature all new construction and equipment, even the half that’s in the existing University Hospital.
6/11/2013
A $22 million project to completely revamp William College's Weston Field complex is slated to begin this November, with a majority of the work expected to be done by the end of August 2014.
6/11/2013
Emerson College has announced plans to build a multistory building to house a 750-student dorm and other facilities in a downtown alley, where the proposed changes would affect three local businesses.
6/11/2013
In the near future, University of Michigan expects to raze eight houses and a parking lot in downtown Ann Arbor and erect an eight-story, 600-bed graduate student residence hall at a cost of $185 million.
6/10/2013
Skidmore College has drawn up plans for a 6,950-panel solar farm that would supply 12 percent of the campus’ energy, proposing to place the array on a Greenfield site owned by the college.
6/10/2013
Gov. Rick Perry is being urged to add more than $2 billion in backlogged university construction projects onto the agenda of the special legislative session amid warnings that further delay could impair the quest for excellence in Texas higher education.
6/9/2013
The institution, which will open once its accreditation has been secured, will be a part of the University of Texas System and is expected to start out with 28,000 students, making it among the county’s largest institutions serving primarily Hispanic students.
6/7/2013
University of Iowa officials, having been given approval from the Iowa state Board of Regents, are moving forward with what will likely be a public-private partnership to find a new home for the university’s $500 million art collection.
6/5/2013
After nearly three decades of planning and waiting, West Hawaii residents celebrated at a groundbreaking ceremony for Hawaii Community College – Palamanui.
