Post by Logan on Feb 6, 2016 23:22:27 GMT -6
UNC Charlotte is the fastest growing campus in the UNC system, but students still learn chemistry and physics in a science building decades out of date.
The two-story Burson building also is cramped given the school’s swelling enrollment – from well under 11,000 students when the building opened in 1985 to nearly 28,000 this year. About 15,000 students take at least one science lab course at the school each year.
“You can only put so many sections of chemistry in a building designed for a much smaller enrollment,” UNCC Chancellor Phil Dubois said last week.
Lecture halls are dated with their rising rows of stationary seats, unlike modern halls where students collaborate in clusters.
Read more here: www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/education/article58645313.html
The two-story Burson building also is cramped given the school’s swelling enrollment – from well under 11,000 students when the building opened in 1985 to nearly 28,000 this year. About 15,000 students take at least one science lab course at the school each year.
“You can only put so many sections of chemistry in a building designed for a much smaller enrollment,” UNCC Chancellor Phil Dubois said last week.
Lecture halls are dated with their rising rows of stationary seats, unlike modern halls where students collaborate in clusters.
Read more here: www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/education/article58645313.html