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August 19,2013
News
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Renovations
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Each bathroom will have two
sinks and a vanity for each student.
On each of the four floors there will
be twocommunity rooms that will
contain ovens and other kitchen
equipment that will be available for
student use.
Each community room is able to
hold thirty students at a time and will
be an exciting new feature to make
this residence hall stand out from the
others on campus.
“This feature was requested by the
student focus groups so that while
studying students can also cook
dinner or snacks for their groups,”
Leese said.
Student mail boxes will be moved
into the new resident hall to ensure
packages and letters will arrive in a
timely manner.
Renovations are also in progress
for the O.A. Grant building, where
over the course of the next few weeks
12,000 square feet of the 40-year-
old building will be renovated and
asbestos will be removed from the
structure.
In addition to the changes previously
mentioned the O.A. Grant building
will also have two floors added above
the existing auditoriums.
The additions to the building
will have space that will be used
for a University Writing Center,
learning and collaboration spaces,
a Department of Communication
Studies suite, Texan TV News studio
and media convergence center, video
podcast rooms, public relations and
event management space, student
meeting spaces, and offices for the
dean of the College of Liberal and
Workers use heavy machinery to extract old concrete from the site of the new parking lot.
Fine Arts.
An outdoor classroom complete
with a seating amphitheater will also
be built in the area of the grassy knoll
on campus.
The Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts
Center is under construction in
order to make basic changes to the
building. Bathrooms inside the
building will be renovated, walls will
be painted throughout the building,
and other basic cosmetic changes will
be made during the 2013 school year.
Construction of the auditorium in the
Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center is
scheduled to take place in the summer
of2014.
To find more information about the
renovation plans on campus please
visitjtacnews.com.
(Above) Signs have been posted at the sites of the new dorm and the Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts
Center to ensure only construction workers enter the grounds.
(Below) The rear entrance to the O.A. Grant building takes on a cylinder shape to provide an
archetectural difference from the other buildings on campus
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