The newest building on campus has caught students’ attention.
Since classes began last week, Crawford Hall has become home to the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, but it’s not just business students who have come to explore.
Grant Nehrenz, junior construction management student, visited the building for the first time Monday, Aug. 19.
His first reaction: “I think this building is something out of the future.”
Zachary Whetzel, junior finance major, said he feels the new building will improve his education.
“I don’t think there’s a better place to be than this,” Whetzel said. “It’s like paying Kent State tuition for a Harvard facility … I actually want to be here. It’s a good place, an appealing place.”
The building boasts four floors of the newest technology being seen in real-life business industries, complete with glass classrooms, a trading center and collaboration stairs from the first to the second floor.
Leah Benson, a senior aerospace engineering major, said she thinks the building is phenomenal and prestigious. She was impressed by the trading room and was happy to find a café, something senior finance and computer information systems student Jake Snelson said is a big perk for him.
“There’s a lot of space to relax in between classes,” Snelson said. “It’s definitely a lot of a cleaner learning experience; I feel like it makes people more motivated to want to come here.”
Whetzel said that, in just the first week of classes, he came to the building two or three times to study. He enjoys the open concept and the atmosphere, a space he said feels good to study in. He enjoys being able to stay for a long time and not worry about food, as the café is conveniently located next to study spaces on the second floor.
Snelson said the bathrooms tend to get a bit crowded, and junior business management student Ellie Burchard said there aren’t enough around the building.
Even so, Burchard said there are many places to study and a lot of ways to get around.
“I think it’s very modern and there’s a lot of cool, different little aspects to it, which makes it very unique,” Burchard said.
Lauren Cohen is a reporter. Contact her at [email protected].
