Brooks College

Last week I introduced the idea that President F. King Alexander wanted to increase student living on campus. According to the CSULB website, the university announced in August that they will be buying Brooks College for their expansion."Acquiring the five-acre site allows us to more immediately address this growing need while also providing greater flexibility to expand academic course offerings and programming," said Alexander.

This transition will take place in the 2009, when Brooks college will close. At the moment, there are about 200 CSULB students who are living on the Brooks College campus. At the time of its closure and complete take over by CSULB, school officials plan on increasing that number to 700.

According to the CSULB website, by using this site to add more student living, it will be saving more money in the long run. "In fact, the total cost of this project will be less than one-third what it would cost to build new student housing for 700 students," said Bill Griffith, CSULB's vice president of administration and financing.

For more on this topic, check out the following link:
http://karl.papubs.csulb.edu/news-events/story.cfm?hackid=834