University draws up plans for STEM Education building

• May 31, 2011 5:15am

Although it may be several years before construction starts on a new STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education building proposed for the University's Hayward campus, the groundwork has been laid with the completion of an initial program study.

The study reveals a leadership vision taking shape for a facility unlike any other education structure in the Bay Area. The five-story facility with 120,000 square feet of instructional and office space will be the first in the region dedicated solely to STEM education, and to new ways of teaching and learning STEM.

"This facility is a central element of our plans to make Cal State East Bay the region's premier STEM-centered university," said Mohammad H. Qayoumi, CSUEB president. "It embodies the principles of an open learning system that fosters teaching and learning innovation, as well as graduates who are better prepared to contribute to the economic, environmental, and social health of the region."

Read more in the new issue of Cal State East Bay magazine.

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