Building Features
Entrance lobbyCafé
Reception gallery
Ukrop Auditorium
Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Faculty/professional, staff, and student organization offices
Faculty lounge
Classrooms
Breakout rooms
Conference rooms
Capital markets trading room
Business Research Center
Board room
Business Center
Technology and Information Center
Goodwin Professional Development Program Center
Student lounge
The entrance lobby will be the community’s gateway to the Robins School of Business. Situated off of the main entrance from Campus Drive, most visitors to the building will come through these doors. From the entrance lobby, all visitors will be able to sense the excitement and dedication to business learning in the building.
The café will have a coffee bar, offer simple food, be centrally located, and have a number of tables and chairs to encourage conversation.
Students, faculty, and visitors will be able to gather in the reception gallery. It will be adjacent to Ukrop Auditorium, and will serve as a reception site before lectures and meetings and also accommodate small dinners and luncheons.
Ukrop Auditorium will seat 225, but still maintain an informal and intimate setting. This space will be the future setting for the Executive on Campus Program, the honors convocation, and other guest lecturers for the Robins School and the University as a whole.
The new Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship will serve as the hub of teaching, learning, research, and all activity involved in the entrepreneurial and innovative process. The Center will involve faculty and students not only from the Business School, but also the schools of Arts & Sciences, Leadership, Law and the business community at large. Furthermore, the Center will promote cross-disciplinary research and teaching which will be essential in understanding the important role that innovation and entrepreneurship play in economic development in a global environment.
New office space will be dedicated to faculty members and their assistants, to student organizations, and to Robins School staff. These new offices will allow all Robins School faculty offices to be housed in the same facility, and provide a designated space for a range of student groups, including the Student Managed Investment Fund and department honorary societies.
The building will feature a faculty lounge on the third floor, linking offices from two parts of the building.
A learning wing on the second floor will include a cluster of three case-style, technologically savvy classrooms. Two case-style rooms will also make up part of the Learning Center. Additional classrooms in the building will feature movable furniture so that students and faculty can arrange the space to fit their needs.
To accommodate the increase in group study projects, the building will feature several breakout rooms, as well as two large, multi-use conference rooms.
The capital markets trading room will provide an interactive environment for studying financial markets, with plasma screens, a ticker, and the required hardware, space, and furnishings.
By accommodating focus groups and marketing and economics experiments, the Business Research Center will support marketing and management teaching and research, as well as help students develop interpersonal and presentation skills.
The board room, featuring library décor, will provide a meeting space for various campus departments as well as alumni and business people, and will serve as a reading room when not in use for meetings.
Located in the Center for Undergraduate Education––one of three wings of the building––the Business Center will have access to a fax machine, copier, computers with printers, and phones, making the expansion a more convenient place for students to do their work. In the same wing, the Technology and Information Center will provide computer access, as well as access to specialized equipment and software. The Goodwin Professional Development Program Center will house the PDP staff and include a reception area and a small conference room.
The student lounge will provide students and faculty a place to study, interact, and congregate between classes.
For more information on these features, as well as to learn about naming opportunities, please visit the Robins School Web site.