The members of the Board of Visitors broke ground for the new Nursing School building Saturday.
The Claude Moore Nursing Education building is projected to open for general use in 2008, according to Theresa Carroll, assistant dean for undergraduate student services.
The building will hold four new classrooms, faculty and administration offices, the Nursing School office of student life and a dining facility.
The new building is necessary because the Nursing School has expanded beyond its current capacity, Nursing School Dean Jeanette Lancaster said.
"We have completely outgrown McLeod Hall and our solitary off-Grounds research facility," she added.
In the last five years applicants to the Nursing School have doubled, but the classes have only grown by approximately 10 percent because of the space issue, Carroll said.
Lancaster said the Nursing School intends to increase the total enrollment by 25 percent in response to the national nursing shortage.
"This new building will increase our space by 40 percent and allow us to increase all of our enrollments," Lancaster said.
The dining area will be a café which will provide healthy food--part of a larger effort to keep the building in line with the virtues of the school, Lancaster said.
Other healthful initiatives in the building's design include expanded bike racks, a large central staircase, large open able windows and an outdoor porch area.
"We are absolutely considering health in the design of the building," Lancaster said.
The new facility will provide nursing students with the most cutting edge educational technology as well as areas where they can congregate, she said.
Currently there is limited space available where nursing students can socialize or for organizations to meet.
"The main entry will have a large student center with computer kiosks, small seating areas and conference rooms," Lancaster said.
The groundbreaking of the Claude Moore Nursing Education building is part of a larger project to revamp the Nursing School, which includes renovating McLeod Hall and renewing the landscape architecture in the area, Lancaster said.
Lancaster estimated the cost of the new building at $12 million and the total cost of the project at $20 million.
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