Women on the Rise - Levin College of Law - University of Florida

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PARTNERS Completion Scheduled for SPRING ’05 Support of Alumni Paying Off as Vital Facilities Expansion Underway The “cheerios” have been moved, the “bridge / habitrail” is no more, the courtyard is gone, one cannot go directly from Holland Hall to Bruton- Geer (and vice versa), green construction safety fences and/or makeshift plywood walls snake throughout the campus, parts of the Legal Information Center are closed and parking lots have been relocated. Thus what some thought might not be possible has begun. Concrete results, literally, of the successful six-month 2001-02 grassroots funding campaign made possible by hundreds of alumni, faculty, staff, students and friends of the state’s flagship law school – and the support and financial backing of University of Florida President Charles Young and Provost David Colburn – already are beginning to take shape at the Levin College of Law. Construction on a $22+ million facilities expansion and renovation project began in early July, with advance planning and cooperation of the law school community promising to keep the College fully operational for 21 months – until Spring 2005, when all involved promise the “vision will be a reality.” “There’s no question we are going to be inconvenienced for at least three full terms, and two football seasons,” admitted Dean Robert Jerry, “but the payoff is going to be magnificent, and such a tremendous reflection on and representation of this school’s graduates and a most enticing environment for prospective students.” Jerry said among results in 2005 will be an increased number of technologically advanced and spacious classrooms, an expanded stateof-the-art Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center and an aesthetically appealing and functional campus. Most noticeable to visiting alumni in the next 12 months will be – other than items already noted – steel structures for new classrooms towers that will connect two floors of Holland and Bruton-Geer, demolition of most of the classrooms and auditoriums in Holland, and relocation of the loading/receiving dock (now at northwest corner of Holland) to eastern end of Bruton-Geer (the old cafeteria receiving area). By end of 2004 Spring term, both the cafeteria and bookstore will be closed until construction ends. Completed facilities will include: Renovated Holland Hall Law Center (named after former Florida Governor and U.S. Senator Spessard Holland ’16) with its classrooms and faculty offices. New three-level towers featuring 15 classrooms and a Ceremonial Classroom to seat up to 160 for conferences, receptions and sessions that will allow students expanded opportunities to meet visiting judges, academics and attorneys. Four existing 20-seat seminar rooms will be refurbished, and most classrooms will accommodate wireless laptops and contain “smart podia” for benefit of faculty and students. The library, doubled in size to 100,000 square feet, will be named in honor of another Gator 10 UFLAW | FALL 2003
SPRING CLASS GIFT who served as Governor/U.S. Senator – Lawton Chiles ’55 – whose memorabilia will be the focal point of a two-story gallery. Also featured will be additional stack capacity, an open reserve area, the Justice Stephen C. O’Connell ’40 Supreme Court Reading Room, an intimate computer training lab, a bar of eight multimedia work stations, and 13 student group conference rooms. “When completed, our new Legal Information Center will be among the top 20 academic law libraries in the U.S. based on size,” Jerry noted. Associate Dean for Administrative Affairs Patrick Shannon is coordinating construction activities on behalf of the law school, working with UF Facilities Planning & Construction’s Howie Ferguson, project manager. Alumni planning on visiting the law school should plan to arrive earlier than necessary due to construction arrangements, as should any law alums and other UF grads who regularly use the grounds for Fall tailgating. By this fall, construction progress and visiting instructions will be posted on the school’s Web site and a Web Cam will be operating to show continuing construction progress. Go to www.law.ufl.edu/construction for details. TOP: Rendering of expanded Legal Information Center (right) and connected Bruton-Geer Hall (left) as it might appear in 2005 from the east (UF tennis facilities). ABOVE: New parking lot on Village Drive (south of former U-drive and lot) was completed before Labor Day. FACING PAGE: All it took was one week in August, and “the bridge / habitrail” was gone – with 3-story academic tower to be in its place by 2005. GRADS Give at Graduation L evin College of Law Spring 2003 graduates presented approximately $25,000 in gifts and pledges to Dean Jon Mills at May commencement. John Marshall Bar Association Student of the Year Nicole Kibert – who joined statewide firm Carlton Fields in its Tampa office – presented the contribution to Mills with the request it be used to help support 10 of the school’s student organizations and a variety of student/ faculty programs. Student members of the Law Alumni Council coordinated the fund-raising effort. This is the fourth consecutive class to raise funds for UFLaw since renewal by Fall 2001 graduates of a tradition dormant in the 90’s. With return of the “class gift,” more than $66,400 has been given or pledged to the College by its last four graduating classes. FALL 2003 | UFLAW 11
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