在过去的一年里，联合大学发生了巨大的变化, with renovations to several areas of campus bringing improvement to the learning and living experiences of lol赛事竞猜 students.

里斯大厅

今年夏天, Maranatha志愿者安装了新地板, 橱柜, and windows in another 27 rooms in the east wing of 里斯大厅—bringing the total to 63 of 170 sleeping rooms in the women’s residence. Renovations began in summer 2019 with 34 rooms on the third and fourth floors, 一、二年级学生主要住在哪里. 2021年夏天，一楼和二楼进行了翻修.

“通常情况下，女士们都不会去东翼, 他们会想待在白宫西翼,艾米莉·帕特森说, 女院长之一. “Our east wing is completely full right now, and that is a first ever in all my years here.“宿舍改造对学生有很大的影响, 让他们在自己的生活空间里感到更安全、更自在. “他们睡觉, 和朋友出去玩, and studying in the dorm rooms—that’s where they spend the majority of their time on campus, 所以有个好地方住很重要.”

Arlyse洗, a junior transfer student who worked on the renovations this summer, 对完成的宿舍房间满意吗. “当我第一次看到他们的时候, they were definitely older and not the best in terms of the floors and walls,她说. “现在我很高兴能住在我的房间里, 自从装修之后, 除了我没有人住在那里. The color of the floors and the 橱柜 really give it a modern feel. 这是完全不同的，我喜欢这种升级.”

AdventHealth创新课堂

感谢AdventHealth的慷慨赠礼, one of the business classrooms on the third floor of the Everett Dick Building has been renovated into the AdventHealth创新课堂. 工厂服务 installed new carpet and windows as well as new tables and chairs arranged in pods rather than rows to create flexible workspaces. Eight smart touchscreen TVs were also installed to enhance student engagement. 收尾工作正在进行中, meant to represent lol赛事竞猜’s brand and enhance the interactive potential of the classroom.

“Before, the layout made it really difficult to see the board from the back of the room. 如果你坐在前排, 回答问题的压力更大, 但在房间的后面，人们更容易走神和脱离工作,谢尔比·琼格马说, 工商管理专业大三学生. “我认为现在的环境更好了. I can see my classmates better, so it’s better for collaboration and group discussion. It’s easier to feel engaged even when you’re at the back of the room.”

“I think that we’ve found quite a few more learners in this room when the technology is used,朱迪·特拉纳说, 联合大学的商业教授之一. 智能电视允许多名学生在同一台设备上学习, making collaboration on group projects and class activities much easier. “I think that as much as possible we need to keep up with what’s going on in the real world. We need to be able to provide the kind of technology and the type of experiences that they’re going to get outside this classroom.”

“From their first year on, we want to get students involved in the classroom. LOL赛事竞猜希望他们开始团队合作，”Trana说. New teaching techniques are designed to provide students with necessary collaboration skills employers are looking for. “我希望拥有这个教室, 在哪里设立小组工作和小组活动, 会促成合作吗. And we believe that collaboration leads to innovation, and that’s going to help make them successful.”

学生成功中心

Last school year, lol赛事竞猜 launched the 学生成功中心 thanks to funding from a U.S. 教育部Title III补助金. The grant provides funding for higher education schools to invest in resources and infrastructure to better aid at-risk students.

The new center for academic and coaching resources is now housed in a renovated section of the library. “We wanted to have a one-stop shop for student and academic resources. Students can come in here and we can help with any questions they have and provide them with any service they need. And if we don’t have what they need here, we know where to send them,” said director Taryn Rouse. 学生成功提供人生指导, 辅导及学术协助, 职业指导和残疾人服务.

"在一起待在这栋楼里之前, LOL赛事竞猜三个人在楼下的就业中心, 另外三个教练在旧的教学中心. 学生服务中心就在楼下。”劳斯解释道. “LOL赛事竞猜在三个不同的领域, which is not conducive to functioning as a team or for students to know where we are.”

现在, 学生的成功 is thriving and serving students more effectively—including providing a life coach for all first-year and transfer students to better prepare them for their time in college. “Getting students engaged academically with activities and with each other is just one of the biggest keys to their success,劳斯说.

Rouse especially emphasized that the 学生成功中心 is open to all students, 无论他们的背景或需求水平如何. “Any student who wants to come in for help, we’ll talk to them,劳斯说. “学生成功区面向所有人. LOL赛事竞猜在这里是为了所有在校学生，而不仅仅是新生. 这是LOL赛事竞猜所关心的，也是学生应该得到的. 这是LOL赛事竞猜的使命.”

普雷斯科特大厅

去年夏天，工厂服务公司翻修了普雷斯科特大厅的大厅, 重新粉刷墙壁，重新粉刷天花板和灯. The biggest project was removing the old student workers’ desk in the lobby and replacing it with a brick one in a new location.

“它看起来好多了，LOL赛事竞猜很兴奋. We really needed the facelift,” said Daniel Force, one of the men’s deans. “LOL赛事竞猜很高兴居民们有了新东西, LOL赛事竞猜希望宿舍能继续有更多的改善.“在未来, he hopes to renovate the rooms in Prescott along with installing an announcement monitor in the lobby. “LOL赛事竞猜只是想让普雷斯科特音乐厅成为一个更好的居住场所.”

学生中心

去年在图书馆开设了学生成功中心之后, renovations began on what used to be the Teaching Learning Center to become a new home for the 学生生活 team. 学生生活 is responsible for overseeing many activities and services offered at lol赛事竞猜, 比如大学代表队, 宿舍管理, 学生社团活动, 和更多的.

Currently the primary 学生生活 office is located on the first floor of the Everett Dick Administration Building. 然而，一些员工分散在校园各处. The new offices renovated by 工厂服务 will provide a central location for the entire team. 金狗, 学生生活副总裁, also believes moving the team into the 学生中心 will help her goal to turn the center along with the entire Don Love Building Atrium into a hub of student activity—which would include the library, 新的学生成功中心和校园商店.

“The renovation will help us provide better services to our students and enhance their experience beyond the classroom,她解释道.