Recognized among New England’s hottest small colleges, enrollments at Curry have soared in recent years. Continued growth, as outlined in the Strategic Plan, would bring the number of Curry's traditional undergraduate students from its current population of 1,800 to the optimum 2,200 students. With the College operating at capacity, the need for additional residential and dining space is acute and the opportunity to create a premier student gathering space is timely.
BOARD APPROVES NEW RESIDENCE HALL CONSTRUCTION
The Curry College Board of Trustees, in a unanimous vote, approved the construction of a new residence hall to be located at 886 Brush Hill Road. A portion of the new residence hall will be located on the site currently occupied by 900 House, which will be razed.
The new facility will be constructed in the classic underclassmen style of center corridors and single and double rooms. The building will be clustered in pods of approximately 24 beds, giving the opportunity for the development of a sense of community and for special interest programming. It will accommodate approximately 170 students upon opening.
Construction of the new residence hall is scheduled to commence in March 2005, with the residence hall ready for occupancy in August 2005. |
CURRY SOLICITS COMMUNITY FEEDBACK FOR NEW STUDENT CENTER PLANS
Significant steps are underway to create an attractive and highly competitive gathering space in the form of a new Student Center.
The College recently engaged the architectural firm CBT of Boston to create a conceptual plan that will allow Curry to construct a new Student Center, incorporating an 80,000 square foot addition to the existing Drapkin Student Center, in five distinct phases.
Throughout the coming months, students, alumni, faculty, parents, staff, and friends will have opportunities to respond to conceptual plans and to offer ideas and recommendations for the new Student Center. (More detail on how and/or add a web page or email box.)
Regional steering committees designed to bring together key alumni, parents and friends in support of the new Student Center have begun to form. Trustee Mitchell Quain, along with alum David Hemenway ’82 and Alex Mager '92 recently met with President Quigley and Vice President for Institutional Advancement Thomas Brodnicki to form a New York area regional committee.
For more information about how you can play a role in fundraising for the new Student Center, please contact Thomas Brodnicki at tbrodnic AT curry.edu or call (617) 333-2929.
Architect's conceptual rendering of proposed Student Center |
