Several new and improved facilities greeted faculty, staff and students this September.

Two new residence halls are opening, one at each campus. The College at Florham’s Rutherford Hall was complete in time for the new academic year, while Northpointe on the Metropolitan Campus officially opens next month due to delays caused by weather and the permit and approval process. The 85,000-square-foot structures each cost approximately $18 million.

Northpointe at the Metropolitan Campus. At right is the Fitness Center.

Also, the $4-million addition and refurbishment of the College at Florham’s Student Center was complete in time for the academic year. Included were exterior renovations, the upgrade and expansion of the dining hall and office spaces, a new coffee house and a new bookstore display area. In addition, artificial turf (FieldTurf) and aluminum bleachers, grandstand and press box are being installed at the campus’s Robert T. Shields Field, see http://fdudevils.com/pages/stadiumupdates.html.

Left photo: Student Center, College at Florham Right photo: Rutherford Hall, College at Florham

Also at the College at Florham, a new, 6,000-square-foot facility, Chaîne House, is being built to house the headquarters of Confrérie de la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs, the world’s premier gourmet society, and the University’s School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management. The building stands near the library where the old career center was located. Chaîne provided $400,000 toward the construction cost of this new facility and has been given a multi-year lease to occupy its portion of the building.

Left photo: Softball Field, Metropolitan Campus. Right photo: Chaîne House, College at Florham

On the Metropolitan Campus, complementing the new Fitness Center, which opened earlier this year, a new softball field with dugouts and outdoor lighting is being built on the overflow parking lot near the Edward Williams Building in Hackensack. The field should be complete in September.

Recently completed on the Metropolitan Campus was the renovation of the area occupied by the Peter Sammartino School of Education in Bancroft Hall. In addition, the old commuter lounge in Alumni Hall is being renovated to become the Metropolitan Club — a facility for faculty and staff. That project will be done in October.

September 2003

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College at Florham, Madison, N.J.

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Metropolitan Campus, Teaneck, N.J.

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