New building for Honors College

notrichenough
Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:40:01 +0000

UMass Amherst just finished the $109 million integrated science building, the $53 million student recreation center; is building a $100 million laboratory science building, the $5.7 million Minuteman Marching Band Building, they just announced a new $85 million academic classroom building “to provide the campus with 1,800 new state-of-the-art classroom seats and academic space for programs including communications, journalism and linguistics”. There are tons of other smaller scale renovation projects going on as well.

And I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the new $12 million police station is much more in response to the regular student body than the nerds in the Honors College.

So I think the rest of the students are being taken care of.

I have no problem with the best and brightest students being given extras or other incentives to get them to attend UMass. IMO, they don’t do enough, especially compared to some of the southern schools. And really, the barrier to get into the Commonwealth College is not that high, pretty much anyone who is willing to work for it can get in.