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Completed Facilities Improvements Since Lunsford's arrival, more than $40 million in capital improvements have added more than 112,000 square feet to campus facilities. The Paul & Betty Abbott Aviation Center at East Texas Regional Airport opened in 2009. The Glaske Center faculty offices expansion added 18 new and much-needed office spaces. The renovated Corner Café dining facility expanded with larger seating capacity for future growth. The new 200-bed South Hall opened in Fall 2011 and has already won design awards. The renovated and expanded Kielhorn Materials Joining Engineering Lab is the largest, stand-alone college welding lab in the country. The new Joyce Family Athletic Village opened in 2012 to serve 13 NCAA intercollegiate sports and intramurals. Under Construction One of the most visible improvements to campus since the 2007 construction of the Belcher Center is the new 60,000-square-foot Anna Lee and Sidney Allen Family Student Center, currently under construction and set to open by Fall 2014. 20 | NOW Magazine | Spring 2013
The new Allen Center will be home to the university mail center, bookstore, print shop, counseling and health services, achievement center and offices for admissions, alumni, career services, student life and administration. A two-story commons area will provide a place for students, faculty, staff, alumni and guests to meet or enjoy a meal from the coffee shop. A large, multi-purpose room with movable walls can be sectioned off into five separate rooms for maximum functionality for meetings and projects. NEW PROGRAMS, NEW SCHOOL OF NURSING To achieve excellence as a Christ-centered university of exceptional professional programs, LETU has launched several new degree programs in the past six years. New graduate degrees are being offered in engineering, health care management, psychology, counseling, and marriage and family therapy. New undergraduate degrees include civil engineering, criminal justice, computer network security, communications, international studies, aviation studies, and allied health-nursing. “Because of the forecasted high demand for highly qualified nurses, we have begun the application and approval process to launch our own LETU School of Nursing, pending SACSCOC and Texas State Board approval,” Lunsford said. “We have hired a new dean of nursing who is working now through the application and approval process with the State Board for LETU to offer its own Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Our plan is to repurpose the MSC building as the home of our proposed School of Nursing after the Allen Center is completed.” GLOBAL INITIATIVES To be a university of global influence, Lunsford formed in 2011 the new Office of Global Initiatives which includes a Center for Global Service Learning. The university’s goal is 1) to increase international student enrollment on the main campus to 10 percent in the next five years and 2) to encourage more LETU students to participate in study-abroad opportunities. The university is seeing success with both goals. This past fall, the university had a record number of 100 international students on its main campus. LETU has also been fulfilling its strategic vision to be a university of global influence in just the last few months as LETU students have traveled to study or serve in Kenya, Israel, Scotland, Spain, Australia, Guatemala, England, Korea, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Haiti and Mongolia. RESOURCES To develop the capabilities, structure and resources to achieve the university’s vision, Lunsford began to strengthen the university’s financial condition through trimming budgets, reorganizing staff and launching the university’s most ambitious and first-ever comprehensive capital campaign to raise $27.5 million before December 2014. The “For Such a Time as This” campaign is the most ambitious in the university’s history because it is a comprehensive campaign that will also fund scholarships, people and projects—not just brick and mortar facilities like campaigns in the past. Progress is tracked on the campaign website at www.campaign.letu.edu. Many initiatives benefit from this campaign, including student scholarships, faculty endowments, the Center for Faith and Work, Global Service Learning and capital projects like the new Allen Family Student Center and the Joyce Family Athletic Village. “Our strategic enrollment plan goal is to grow our traditional campus to 1,600 students by 2015 and 2,000 students beyond that,” Lunsford said. The campaign has enjoyed success to date with over $22 million, or 80% of the total pledged, despite a depressed economy since 2008. “The LeTourneau legacy instructs us on how to proceed into this new generation of service,” Lunsford said. “Mr. R.G. has already told us how to go forward. His life verse, Matthew 6:33, points the way. He might say if here today, ‘University, seek first the Kingdom of God and all else will be added.’ And that is exactly what we intend to do.” • LeTourneau University | 21
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