UNO Expansion Approved


UNO is adding a new building to its south campus at a cost of $31 million. The plan was approved Friday by the board of regents. Students who will used the facility see the project as money well spent. Patrick Nowak is a UNO graduate business student who says the best chance of using a computer at Roskens Hall computer lab is on a Friday.

"It's pretty quiet in here right now," he said. "Other times, they'll actually be students huddling outside the door waiting to get a chance at one of the computers." Nowak is one of nearly 400 graduate students who move in and out of classes with nearly 2,000 undergraduates at Roskens Hall. Senior Chris Miller says, "There's been a kind of disconnect between the business students and all the, all the brainiacs in the PKI Building but I think this will definitely be good for the future of UNO."

That future is near 67th and Pine, the site of the new college of business administration building. It will be a major upgrade from Roskens Hall, built in 1975. Money for the project was donated. Lynn Harland is the associate dean of the College of Business Administration and says, "That's something that we have longed for for so long and so to be able to have this is just, just fabulous." Construction is expected to begin this summer and take two years. Once the new building is complete, Roskens Hall will become a multi-purpose building for the College of Education.


Source - WOWT Channel Six