Conversation: McIntire and Architects
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Read a conversation about the McIntire School "Back to the Lawn" project between Associate Dean Gerry Starsia and architects Warren Cox, Lee Becker, and Mary Kay Lanzillotta of Hartman-Cox. |
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 Groundbreaking Ceremony Video
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The U.Va. President John Casteen joined McIntire Dean Carl Zeithaml and distinguished friends and alumni Friday, April 15, 2005, for the groundbreaking ceremony of McIntire's $60 million "Back to the Lawn" building project involving the complete renovation of Rouss Hall and a new addition. |
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“Our goals are to offer the best undergraduate program in the world, unsurpassed excellence in graduate education, and important contributions to business knowledge and practice. We’ve made remarkable progress toward these goals on a number of dimensions. The construction of our new academic complex is an essential step toward preeminence in business education.”
– Dean Carl Zeithaml |
Dean's Message
Throughout its history, innovation has been a hallmark of the McIntire School of Commerce. With the development of the Integrated Core Experience (ICE) in the undergraduate curriculum and the complete redesign of its graduate degrees, McIntire continues to be a global leader in the creation of cutting-edge programs. The School’s new technology centers are recognized as the finest on Grounds and as models for the use of technology in business education. In recent years, McIntire enhanced its outstanding faculty by recruiting some of the finest teachers and scholars in the world.
Now, McIntire has built an inspiring physical presence on the Lawn, worthy of those who worked so hard to make the School great. With the realization of this vision, the Commerce School
is positioned to significantly enhance its educational programs for students and its support of knowledge creation and dissemination by faculty.
The new building complex is essential to the School’s achievement of preeminence in business education. It will enable us to offer the best undergraduate curriculum and graduate programs in the world, to consistently recruit and retain the best faculty and students, and to incorporate the technologies vital to our future. The facility’s architecture captures McIntire’s culture of strong faculty-student interaction, and it contains outstanding classrooms, technology centers, offices, group study rooms, support spaces, and work areas. The Commerce School
is now housed on perhaps the most historically significant location in American higher education; this setting also puts the School and its programs in the middle of Central Grounds, close to the College, the Engineering School, and the University’s other schools and departments. This strategic location
also encourages collaboration among faculty and students of many disciplines. The Commerce School should serve as a catalyst in this collaborative educational process.
We appreciate the great financial support of our alumni, corporate partners, and friends, and
thank them for helping us to bring the construction of the new complex to its timely completion.
On behalf of the McIntire School of Commerce, thank you for visiting our “Back to the Lawn” Web site. We look forward to welcoming you to our new home.
Carl P. Zeithaml
Dean
McIntire School of Commerce |
