Texas A&M University at College Station (TAMU-College Station) will spend $130 million to build a new classroom on the west campus. Construction is slated to begin in June 2027.
The West Campus Learning Commons project will feature a three-floor facility covered a total gross area of 112,193 square feet. The university will build the structure on a site currently occupied by a parking lot. Located adjacent to other major projects currently in design and planning, the West Campus Learning Commons facility will contribute to an ambitious transformation project for the west area of campus.
The facility will feature 19 classroom spaces, providing ample space for traditional lecture delivery, active learning and a hybrid of both education styles. Additional large-scale instructional spaces will also be incorporated into the site’s layout, including:
- A medium teaching arena.
- An egg classroom.
- Five active learning studios.
- A tiered collaboration classroom.
- Group dynamics space.
TAMU-College Station has also incorporated several smaller classroom spaces to support core curriculum courses. These seminar classrooms will provide flexible teaching spaces and can be reconfigured for lecture-based or active-learning curricula. The addition of these rooms will enable the decommission of low-quality and under-performing classrooms elsewhere on campus.
While faculty will not have access to permanent office space, the building will feature a faculty resource center for meeting with students. These areas will include small meeting rooms, touchdown workspaces and a locker area. The university will, however, build an office suite for building staff.
The project vision calls for dedicated student spaces for collaboration and study and an Academic Support Center.
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