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Originally Posted by tete
The money earmarked for SAIT is going towards a MASSIVE infrastructure project. This project, when completed, will change the landscape of campus completely. Basically it's demolishing the entire Thomas Reilly building, the Murdoch Parkade, plus I think even Colonel Walker might get demo'd. Then they'll be able to put up a state of the art Trades and Tech building complex - so many of the buildings on campus are not properly equipped for the type of teaching/traning these days. It'll be exciting to see how this all goes.
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Yes.. this money is in addition to the funding already provided to post-secondary institutes every year and it is primarily aimed at infrastructure.. A few years back.. Mount Royal College was a big winner.. now they have the Bissett School of Business building, Continuing Education Building.. and I think one more building is still to go up.. or is underway?(haven't been down that way for awhile).
This funding isn't about excluding other campuses.. UofC has gotten a lot of prior funding... places I used to go in the early 90's are gone or are new buildings now... it is just UofC was the higher priority back then.. then MRC... now it is SAIT and Bow Valleys turn. Maybe after this UofC is now moving back up on the list for future infrastructure funding?
Like TeTe says above... the SAIT campus will look very different .. no more H, J and K wings.. no more Ware Building or its cafeteria (maybe not a bad thing) ... no more Col. Walker... no more Thomas Riley.
