Two New Buildings Almost Ready to Join A.P. White Campus

COLUMBIA, Ky. -- In less than a month, two more buildings will be brought online on the Lindsey Wilson College A.P. White Campus. A new residence hall will be open when students return to campus on Aug. 13, and a new classroom building will be open when the 2011-12 school year gets under way on Aug. 17.

LWC's latest residence hall will open a year after the college opened its largest residence hall, four-story, 186-bed Harold J. Smith Hall.

The new residence hall -- located on the eastern edge of campus -- will house up to 156 female students in 16,100 square feet of space. It will include 52 rooms and a resident hall director. The cost of the one-story building is about $800,000.

LWC housed a record 1,052 students in 2010-11, and more than 1,000 students are expected to live on campus during the '11-12 school year.

The new classroom building will house LWC's baccalaureate nursing program and nationally accredited School of Professional Counseling. The 26,000-square-foot, two-story building will sit next to the Jim and Helen Lee Fugitte Science Center, creating a science village on the A.P. White Campus.

Among the building's features will be interactive classrooms that will provide nursing majors with cutting-edge technology and technological innovations that will help the School of Professional Counseling work with its more than two dozen locations in five states.