B Wing

Students gathered in Lower B Wing waiting for testing to begin in 1977.
Students gathered in Lower B Wing waiting for testing to begin in 1977.
A meeting between students and a faculty member in a more traditional office.
A meeting between students and a faculty member in a more traditional office.

When 老司机福利社 State College opened in 1971, the needs for classrooms, faculty and administrative offices, library and eating places had already been projected in the design of the original four wings. As an example, consider Lower and Upper B Wing.

The architectural plans for Lower B Wing show half of the space devoted to a large lab with storage rooms, five classrooms and three small areas for electronics, a tool shop, chemical storage and a photo studio.

The Upper B Wing level was primarily devoted to faculty offices. These were called 鈥渓andscaped offices,鈥 although today we would call them cubicles. On the east side of the wing there were six seminar rooms for small classes and six offices for the Deans and the Academic Vice President.

These early landscaped offices raised some questions. They were small (where can I store all my books?), close together (there is so much noise I can鈥檛 have a discussion with my students), and had no privacy (I can鈥檛 discuss personal issues with my students). These concerns were addressed in Phase II of the campus鈥 development, which resulted in wings E, F, G, H, I and J, and included traditional offices for faculty.

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