Expanding business, music schools in the works

IU administrators discussed new and continuing building plans at the trustee’s facilities committee meeting on Aug. 14.

As the new man in charge of IU’s facilities, Tom Morrison, Vice President of Capital Projects and Facilities, reviewed IU’s project list, which includes projects that have started and projects that have yet to be started. Morrison took over the facilities responsibilities from former Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer Terry Clapacs, who retired in May.

Morrison spoke about a plan for a new music school rehearsal building, which could be ready to present to the trustees as early as October, said IU spokesman Larry MacIntyre.

University architect Bob Meadows and representatives from the Kelley School of Business spoke about a proposed annexation.

The business school is “well on their way” to having the financing to build another undergraduate building on Fee and 10th close to where the undergrad program is currently housed, MacIntyre said. The new building would contain a number of high-tech, wired classrooms so students could watch lectures from anywhere in the world.

For example, someone in Tokyo can discuss Asian development with students in Indiana, MacIntyre said.

After the new addition is put in to place, there are plans to renovate the existing classrooms. By the time the construction and renovations are complete, the school will be the most modern business facility in the country, he said.