Campus construction weighed heavily in discussions for Virginia Tech's Board of Visitors when they met Sunday and Monday.The board reviewed several plans for new buildings Monday.
A new human and agricultural bioscience building, known as HBBI 1, is set to be built in the parking lot currently known as "The Cage."
A 160,000 gross-square-foot "signature engineering building" is planned for the northeast corner of the commuter parking lot between Prices Fork Road and Stanger Street.
The board also discussed plans for a new building located between ICTAS I and Randolph Hall, which would contain classrooms and office space, along with a dining facility. Also included in the discussions were renovations to Davidson Hall to provide new meeting areas, classrooms and laboratories.
Sunday's discussions revolved around campus diversity, primarily a drop in the number of African-American applicants from 1,849 in 2001 to 1,374 in 2009.
Additionally, the number of accepted Hispanic applicants nearly doubled from 592 in 2001 to 1,089 in 2009. Tech also doubled the number of enrolled Native American students from 26 in the incoming class of 2008 to 52 in the incoming class of 2009.One suggestion offered to increase diversity was the increase of financial aid to prospective students."The finances are an area where a lot of students will draw a line in the sand," said Kevin McDonald, vice president for the office of equity and inclusion. The board will meet again Nov. 8 and 9.
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Are they insane? What could possibly make them even consider destroying the parking lots to put up buildings? Even with the new parking structures, parking is bound to be at a premium as enrollment increases every year.
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Gee Anonymous, could it possibly be the need for classroom, lab, and office space?? But by all means, parking should take precedence, right?
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This is really sad! Students are already struggling with parking situations, as the price of parking passes continues to increase. At some point the students are going to stop purchasing passes if they have no where to park. Maybe they should rethink the parking situation first before they try to add more buildings on campus. If they were smart, they would have also thought about making a larger parking deck that would accommodate the displacement that is associated with the new building structures.
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