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What’s being dug on campus?

October 29, 2019 by Kai Watson 34 Comments

When we first came to school, we all saw and heard the same thing with collective confusion. Construction, fences, tractors, and massive piles of dirt that don’t make sense. Mallory Bedney, a student confused at the sight, explained that the construction was distracting.

Construction site near the Pfau Library. Photo by Citlaly Carlos.

 

“My curiosity gets peeked, and I wish that what was going on was public knowledge,” said Bedney.

Leatha Elsdon, the Director of Faculties Planning, Design, and Construction helped dissolve this confusion. Those huge piles of dirt will become the water filtration system for the Santos Manuel Student Union (SMSU) expansion. This will collect stormwater that must be captured by California law and the temporary classrooms will host underground utilities such as the sewer, water, electricity trenches, and power grid.

Construction site of the SMSU Expansion. Photo by Citlaly Carlos

SMSU will be expanding into a three-story building directly north of the first SMSU building. The first level includes a pub with outdoor seating, a game room, eight-lane bowling alley, food vendors and retail space, dining and lounge space, and the campus bookstore. The second level will be a multipurpose conference level center with an order plaza and the third level will have administrative offices for the Associated Students Inc., student government, student success, cultural centers, and social space.

“The food options could include a new Coyote Pub, Habit Burger, a Mexican food concept, and potential for a different coffee space,” Elsdon said.

 The bookstore will be moving by the Center for Global Innovation Center with the Apple Store and the home delivery option getting expanded.

The deserted Anthropology Museum on the first floor of the Chemical Sciences building will be transformed into two new Anatomy teaching laboratory spaces with a mutual specimen storage space. These spaces will double the teaching size to 48 and the third floor of the Biological Sciences building, along with the mutual specimen storage room of the Anatomy lab will be adapted into a Graduate research laboratory.

Included features are mobile instrument benches, safety shower/eyewash, and accessible accommodations for a fume and hood sink to ensure equal access to learning and academic success. The fume hoods will ensure that Anatomy students can preserve their cadavers (a dead human body) in a proper manner.

The Center for Global Innovation (CGI) is a new classroom building, a 250 seat lecture hall, and an administration building that will feature a global gallery, an outdoor plaza for social gatherings and study areas and a retail food facility. In the center of campus, the CGI building provides direct access adjacent to Parking Lot N conveniently near the library and Student Union.

“There’s 24 classrooms total, 15 geared for extended learning, and 9 state classrooms. Three of the nine classrooms will be active learning which will include mobile furniture and small groups,” Elsdon explained. The classrooms can be used for certificate programs, summer classes, evening classes, and condensed classes.

Construction site of the SMSU Expansion. Photo by Citlaly Carlos.

Filed Under: Community, Education, News Tagged With: construction, SMSU

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    Please note that the underutilized space on the first floor of the Chemical Sciences building is NOT the “abandoned Anthropology Museum.” The Anthropology Museum is located on the third floor of the Social and Behavioral Sciences building (room 306). A separate science museum had, at one point in time, been planned for CS, but was never developed. The Anthropology Museum is open Monday-Friday 9am-4pm, with ample seating for student individual and group study. The current exhibition, Lost and Found, was curated, developed, and fabricated by students for students, and it features photographs by CSUSB students who have studied abroad. Come check it out!

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    • Sastry G. Pantula says

      November 29, 2019 at 7:39 AM

      We are hoping that “breaking ground’ (well, the concrete!) of the Anatomy and Physiology teaching lab will happen the week after the finals. Once the dust settles, we hope we can offer better and more labs for our students. We hope that the bond measure next year brings much needed funds for deferred maintenance and new STEM labs. Space is at a premium as we grow our student, staff and faculty population on our beautiful campus.
      Cheers,
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  33. Mallory Bedney says

    November 7, 2019 at 1:26 PM

    Super informative article! Thank you for clarifying everything that’s happening on campus right now!

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