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News Release
August 1, 2007
Boise State University Plans Grand Opening of Interactive
Learning Center, Center for Teaching and Learning Aug. 23
Boise State University will celebrate the official opening of a new building
and a new center on Aug. 23. Both are designed to enhance the teaching and
learning process for faculty and students.
The $14 million, four-story, 54,000-square-foot Interactive Learning Center
(ILC) was designed to help fulfill both the teaching and research missions
of a growing metropolitan university, and will be the first building
outlined in Boise State’s 2005 Campus Master Plan to be completed. The ILC
will support the latest in technology with 12 general use classrooms,
multi-media labs, a distance-learning classroom, a classroom for research
and innovation and even a 3-D visualization classroom.
The ILC is also home to the newly formed Center for Teaching and Learning at
Boise State. Director Susan Shadle said the center’s primary purpose is to
provide faculty with resources and support for growth, reflection and
innovation in teaching.
“The ILC will be a destination where faculty will go not just to teach a
class, but also to meet, eat and connect with one another and with
students,” Shadle says. “The building has a lot of gathering spaces and the
classrooms are open and integrated into the rest of the building. It helps
send the message that all of our activities are connected.”
The university will celebrate both the building and the center opening
beginning at 1:15 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 23, with an opening ceremony that
will include remarks by Boise State President Bob Kustra, associate vice
president for campus planning and facilities James Maguire, Shadle and
others.
Activities will continue with a 2 p.m. lecture by Charles E. Glassick titled
“Teaching, Learning and Scholarship ... All One Continuum,” in the ILC
first-floor lecture hall. Glassick is a senior associate emeritus of the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and co-author of
“Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate.”
Aug. 23 events will conclude with a Center for Teaching and Learning grand
opening reception from 3-5 p.m. Faculty are encouraged to greet colleagues
in the new center and tour the ILC’s unique teaching and learning spaces.
The ILC is located next to the Multipurpose Classroom Building on the west
end of campus. For more information, visit the Center for Teaching and
Learning Web site at
http://CTL.boisestate.edu or call 426-4610.
The grand opening of the ILC is one of several events planned in August and
September to celebrate Boise State’s 75th anniversary. For a complete
schedule, visit
www.boisestate.edu/diamondyear.
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Contact: Susan Shadle, Center for Teaching and Learning, (208)
426-3153, sshadle@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Sherry Squires, University Communications, (208)
426-1563, ssquires@boisestate.edu
Boise State University celebrates its 75th anniversary this fall. From
its founding on Sept. 6, 1932, the institution has evolved from a small
church-sponsored college in a downtown schoolhouse to a metropolitan
research university of distinction with about 19,000 students. Visit
boisestate.edu and click on the “75” button for more information.
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Monday, August 27, 2007
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