North Greenville University (NGU) board of trustees approved renovations to Donnan Administration Building, the university announced March 24.
While the project’s capital campaign will be announced at a later date and the estimated cost has not been publicly disclosed, the renovations will include:
- Upgraded high-tech classrooms
- Establishing a student gathering, meeting and collaboration space, as well as faculty offices
- A 25-person conference room
- New office suite for senior administrators to bring chief executive, academic, operations and financial officers under one roof
“We are excited and very grateful that the NGU Board of Trustees has chosen to move forward with this project that will renovate the university’s most significant building to provide a new home for COBE to better achieve this mission,” said College of Business and Entrepreneurship dean John Duncan. “This facility will enhance faculty-to-student as well as student-to-student interactions and help us accelerate the creation of a thriving learning community for our business programs.”
The NGU board also approved a new standard set of courses for all bachelor’s-level students, which includes:
- Engaging the Biblical Narrative
- Integrating a Biblical Worldview
- Interpreting the Biblical Text
- Composition and Rhetoric
- Composition and Literature
- Western Civilization in a Global Context since 1517
- Scientific Inquiry in Living World
- Scientific Inquiry in Physical World
- General Psychology
- Computer Tech for Success
- One communication course
- One literature course
- One fine arts appreciation course
- One civic awareness course
- Math
“For the first time as a university, a new core curriculum was proposed by a faculty committee, approved overwhelmingly by the entire faculty, and approved unanimously by the full board,” said NGU president Gene C. Fant Jr. “This new foundation for our academic programs will improve student learning outcomes, preparation for life and calling, and intellectual coherence among our 115 academic fields of study.”
The new core curriculum will go into effect for the 2023-24 academic year.
