Note: This is third and final part of RN's special report "A New Look for Tucker Hall."FAMU’s College of Arts & Sciences, which enrolls more than half the university’s student body, is adjusting to its temporary home in the old Developmental Research School building.
The college’s classrooms and faculty/administrative offices will remain there until Tucker Hall’s $17.1M renovation is complete in July 2010.
“It’s been difficult, but we are happy that better times and days are ahead,” said David Jackson, chairman of the Department of History and Political Science in an interview with The FAMUan. “Hopefully when we move back to Tucker Hall, the facility will be state-of-the art, and any sacrifices that we make will be well worth it.”
Nevell Owens, a religion professor, said he looks forward to the new smart classroom technology in the renovated Tucker Hall.
“I know a lot of the classrooms will have smart room technology, which will be a mass improvement over blackboard and whiteboard writing,” Owens said. “It will make things easier as an instructor to get things to students.”