Collaborative Study Rooms (6 seats)
$25,000 Recognition Opportunity (x5)

Recognizing the varying nature of collaborative work in different fields of study and professions, we propose to create a variety of spaces to facilitate different activities, and which also foster distinctive and preferred atmospheres. Every room will have the basics: tables and chairs. However, many of them will be equipped with additional resources. Some of the spaces will encourage a more informal or relaxed environment by incorporating a whiteboard for jotting down ideas, and a scattering of bean bag chairs in lieu of traditional ones. Others will be highly connected electronically, equipped with: computer workstations, monitors, and projectors, allowing team members to share ideas on the various screens; and microphones to simulate remote communications, allowing for video-conferencing. Since this type of technology is used regularly in workplace environments, allowing for remote collaboration on a common project, it would also serve as an excellent real-world simulation that prepares students for future employment. The technology would also allow each member of the group to leave the session with his or her own digital copy of the team’s effort.

Students are now required to break into groups to perform specialized analyses of given case studies. Engineers often scribble equations and ideas onto a whiteboard. Meanwhile management students might find greater benefit in workstations. These students would benefit greatly from case-study rooms, as the distinctive qualities of the space would accommodate and facilitate the collaborative work characteristics of their respective fields. A suite of case-study rooms will enhance the other types of study spaces that accommodate group and individual study throughout the new facility.

Collaborative Study Rooms (4 seats)
$10,000 Recognition Opportunity (x8)

Recognizing the varying nature of collaborative work in different fields of study and professions, we propose to create a variety of spaces to facilitate different activities, and which also foster distinctive and preferred atmospheres. Every room will have the basics: tables and chairs. However, many of them will be equipped with additional resources. Some of the spaces will encourage a more informal or relaxed environment by incorporating a whiteboard for jotting down ideas, and a scattering of bean bag chairs in lieu of traditional ones. Others will be highly connected electronically, equipped with: computer workstations, monitors, and projectors, allowing team members to share ideas on the various screens; and microphones to simulate remote communications, allowing for video-conferencing. Since this type of technology is used regularly in workplace environments, allowing for remote collaboration on a common project, it would also serve as an excellent real-world simulation that prepares students for future employment. The technology would also allow each member of the group to leave the session with his or her own digital copy of the team’s effort.

Students are now required to break into groups to perform specialized analyses of given case studies. Engineers often scribble equations and ideas onto a whiteboard. Meanwhile management students might find greater benefit in workstations. These students would benefit greatly from case-study rooms, as the distinctive qualities of the space would accommodate and facilitate the collaborative work characteristics of their respective fields. A suite of case-study rooms will enhance the other types of study spaces that accommodate group and individual study throughout the new facility.

Quiet Study Room (60 seats)
$200,000 Naming Opportunity

Many users of our new facility will be seeking a chance for individual, quiet study, not collaboration or interaction. The third floor Quiet Study Room has the capacity for 60 soft, comfortable chairs and will be filled with light from a window overlooking the second-floor Galleria. Careful acoustic treatment of surfaces will enhance quiet throughout.

Graduate Student Commons
$150,000 Naming Opportunity

This important area of the Commons will accommodate the scholarly pursuits of graduate students, fostering and supporting their academic inquiry. A feeling of openness and airiness will pervade: extensive natural lighting, window views, and enclosed rooms that will be as transparent as practical, including clear sightlines into adjacent rooms.

The Graduate Student Commons will provide a group environment, ideal for the collision of ideas and facilitating social interaction among peers.

Graduate Student Collaborative Study Rooms
$25,000 Recognition Opportunity (x2)

Two small project rooms allow graduate students to collaborate and to schedule meetings with peers and supervisors.

Graduate Student Workshop
$100,000 Naming Opportunity

The workshop room is an ideal space for small presentations, research groups, focus groups and thesis defenses.

Lecture Theatre (multi-level)
$1.5 Million Naming Opportunity

A key feature in the new centre will be the Lecture Theatre, an advanced teaching and learning space which will constitute the largest lecture theatre on the Okanagan campus and serve as a specialised teaching laboratory. This flexible, collaborative classroom will be of particular benefit to students pursuing studies in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields and management. These programs routinely engage in group work requiring them to break out into teams to perform specialised analyses of given case studies. This modified lecture theatre is projected to seat 450 individuals and have two rows per tier that would support small group work, allowing the theatre to host such collaborative learning exercises as well as lectures.

Graduate Student Centre
$200,000 Naming Opportunity

The purpose of the Graduate Student Centre (GSC) is to provide a comfortable and welcoming space that will attract a wide spectrum of graduate students, foster graduate student interaction and a sense of community, and promote graduate student academic well-being, success, and camaraderie. A key goal is to make the GSC a resource for graduate students to stop between classes where they may check email, hold office hours, attend or hold a meeting, or join a study, writing or research group. The GSC will comprise a suite of spaces, including small meeting rooms, a seminar room, open lounge/meeting area for social interaction, and storage space.