The center will also be home to the Los Altos-based college's largest multidisciplinary computer lab. The project was inspired by Foothill College President Bernadine Chuck Fong's vision to create a regional training resource for kindergarten to community college teachers.
The Krause Center for Innovation, or KCI, now houses 18,000-sf of computer labs and teaching spaces, a digital art gallery and a cyber cafe, all under a distinctive opaque dome.
The new center became a reality with the guidance of its executive director Gay Krause, a former elementary school teacher, counselor and principal. Krause and her husband Bill, an early founder of 3Com. Krause retired in 1993 donated $1 million to the center through their family foundation.
In addition to the Krause donation, the $9.3 million center was funded from other private contributions and public funding through the passage of Measure E, a $248 million bond passed in 1999.
Foothill College officials also say the new center will serve as an effective model of teacher training and implementation of California's standards-based curriculum in public and private schools.
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