Facilities

Colleges take environmental issues seriously when they think doing so will save money, study suggests.

More than half of growth in academic research facilities is in biological or medical fields, according to the NSF.

When hurricane hit New Orleans, colleges had evacuated; many campuses in region turn gyms into shelters.

UC Irvine decision isn't about aesthetics -- building by the noted architect is falling apart.

Architecture professors at U. of Virginia charge that new campus buildings are boring, inefficient and insensitive.

Colleges do rebound from calamities of nature -- and those that have done so offer lessons and hope for those in New Orleans.

Hurricane Rita forced colleges in Texas and Louisiana to prepare for the worst, but officials at many institutions were feeling relieved by late Saturday and spent much of the weekend preparing to re-open soon. While damage reports were not in, a few institutions did experience significant damage. In Texas, they include Lamar University, Lamar State College at Port Arthur, and the Lamar Institute of Technology. In Louisiana, Sowela Technical Community College, in Lake Charles, suffered extensive damage and the same may be true for McNeese State University.

Student activists and administrators announce plans to promote environmentalism.

Does a monument to the civil rights struggle at Ole Miss need to be "positive"?

Voters approve over $1 billion in bonds for facilities and improvements; California rejects new spending limits.