Universities Undergoing High-Tech Remakes

The new Kuhlin Center, a cornerstone of the master plan, and home to the School of Media and Communication.

TOLEDO, OH—Colleges and universities across the US have been remaking their campuses, and although many concentrate on building resort-style student housing, others have also begun to transform their learning environments. Bowling Green State University has with its program manager JLL launched a $200 million master plan to renovate, construct, demolish or significantly upgrade more than a dozen buildings across the campus in Bowling Green, OH, just south of Toledo.

JLL and BGSU finished the first step of this campus-wide transformation in 2011 by delivering more than 1,300 new beds in student resident halls and completing two new standalone dining centers. The pair now aim to incorporate high-tech tools into the school’s new teaching spaces, which will also provide a wide variety of environments that help foster collaboration, instead of simple classrooms where students learn almost exclusively by taking notes.