Posted Aug 24, 2017, 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Urbanthusiat
New building at Penn - 37th and Spruce
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I've been wondering about that ever since the DP mentioned it in an article about the most recent meeting of the Penn trustees:
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Wharton is adding another building — it'll be across from the Quad at 37th and Spruce streets.
Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett said the new building will address scheduling and space conflicts that often arise in Wharton facilities.
“The amount of my time and senior administrators’ time in the school on finding space and on room allocation is incredible. I mean it’s ‘can we find a hundred square feet here, a hundred square feet there?’” Garrett said. “So desperately seeking space I think is a fair way to explain the state of the school.”
Garrett diagramed how the four-story Wharton Academic Research Building, as it will be called, will be organized. While some of the rooms are to resemble traditional lecture halls, others will facilitate the Structured, Active, In-Class Learning (or SAIL), where students use class time to collaborate and solve problems.
“The lower-half is for students and academic programs,” Garrett said. “There, what we’re really talking about is another incremental step towards, what I would call a rebalancing of what I would call learning by studying and learning by doing.”
The center’s top two floors will be reserved for research areas, academic offices and administrative spaces. Garrett says that this organization will promote “synergy,” between Wharton’s ever-growing and diversifying faculty.
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http://www.thedp.com/article/2017/06...e-2017-meeting
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