Guided by our campus development plan, the complete physical transformation of the campus has allowed us to honor our past by staying in the quartier of our founding while meeting the needs of our 21st-century community of global explorers.
The Bosquet building.
Our beloved Bosquet, home to so much learning and many other important ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ adventures over the years, was the foundation on which we built the campus’s transformation. Sadly, the building’s physical layout ultimately presented more obstacles than opportunities, and its sale in 2014 opened the way for a new generation of innovative teaching and learning spaces.
The campus development plan has been geared towards maintaining ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½â€™s historical character, while at the same time meeting student and faculty expectations for modern learning spaces and technology.
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Five years ago, we began an audacious project to transform ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½â€™s campus. Thanks to the support of the ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ community, we have accomplished the following major projects:
The Learning Commons contains such services as the ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Library and the Academic Resource Center, which were previously located in separate buildings. Our goal of creating a student-centered Parisian campus – designed to foster active learning, innovative pedagogies and student interaction across our diverse student body – is now complete.
However, the work doesn’t stop there. A sixth renovation is also in the pipeline. Now that the library has moved to its new home in the Learning Commons, its old location at Monttessuy is next in line for redevelopment. The aim is to create a central space for ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½â€™s burgeoning Department of Art History and Fine Arts, in order to respond to growing demand for the department’s majors, which have seen a collective 270% increase in applications over the last five years. The redeveloped space is to be named The Monttessuy Center for the Arts.