 Colby’s planning process revealed various strategic opportunities to expand campus facilities, including plans for three major new academic buildings and a new alumni center. With the original plan for the Mayflower Hill campus, designed in the 1930s, pretty well built out, it was time for a new comprehensive campus plan. Planners settled on a new campus district across Mayflower Hill Drive from the main academic quadrangle and decided to model it on a traditional New England village green. The Colby Green is a new oval lawn that currently has two buildings, admissions and the new alumni center, facing it and will soon have two more. The Diamond Building, an $11.5-million, 53,000-square-foot building for social science and interdisciplinary studies departments as well as the Goldfarb Center, is currently under construction. Another academic building, for science departments, is next in the queue. |
 Not all the action is around Colby Green. The Roberts dining hall, one of three dining halls on campus, will be completely remodeled in 2005, completing a program to renovate and modernize all the dining halls. Plans are in the works for a major expansion of Cotter Union, which is Colby’s student center, and a comprehensive program to renovate residence halls is on the home stretch. A state-of-the-art synthetic turf field opened early in 2005 for athletic practices and games. |
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