The College of Agriculture and Human Sciences is anticipating the completion and opening of its new academic building. The building went under construction in early spring 2013, any is located between Hilliard Hall and the Juvenile Justice and Psychology building. The new building will be an 89,000 square-foot, four-story facility that will include a 400 seat auditorium theater-style seating, technology-enhanced classrooms, and a 400 square-foot student lounge on the second floor. There will be large, open areas dedicated to student-professor collaboration. The building will also have a tall, eye-catching clock tower that will extend far above the campus.
CAHS is also looking forward to more new facilities and renovations that are coming in the near future. The upcoming Combined Agricultural Center is an estimated $8.5 million project that is scheduled to be completed around the fall semester of 2017. The new center will consists of a meat processing laboratory, a covered livestock arena, livestock pens, locker rooms, and showers. The meat processing laboratory will be used for research and educational purposes with a demonstration kitchen and classroom spaces to accommodate the laboratory. The livestock arena will feature retractable bleacher seating for 1000 and a 32,400 sq. ft. arena floor.
Livestock pens will also be incorporated to contain livestock for both the meat processing laboratory and the livestock arena. The arena will be used to host rodeo events, such as, riding, roping, team roping and barrel racing. It is also prepared to host cattle shows and animal handling events. The new CAHS facilities are an example of one of the many positive changes that are underway at CAHS.