Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, has opened a $77 million, 167,000-square-foot building for its College of Education.
The Opelika-Auburn News reports that since 1969, much of the College of Education has been housed in the Haley Center. Now the majority of the college will be housed in the new facility.
The building provides space for three of the college's four academic units: the Department of Curriculum and Teaching; the Department of Special Education, Rehabilitation, and Counseling; and the Department of Educational Foundations, Leadership, and Technology.
"With the collaborative classrooms and instructional labs and cutting-edge technology that I see all throughout the building, this facility strengthens our standing as one of the top education programs in the country," says Auburn President Christopher B. Roberts.
College of Education Dean Jeffrey Fairbrother says the three-story facility has a total of 2,093 light fixtures, 318 windows and 450 doors.
