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Heart
The New
of Campus
Capital Campaign
The centerpiece of Young Harris College’s
master plan and the focal point of the Investing in
the Future Capital Campaign is the construction
of a $44 million, 125,000-square-foot campus
center designed to catapult the student experience
at Young Harris College into the 21st century.
Named for a $22 million lead gift from the O.
Wayne Rollins Foundation, the Rollins Campus
Center will become the signature facility at Young
Harris College—the social and intellectual heart of
campus.
Located next to the Susan B. Harris Chapel—the
College’s oldest structure, this three-and-a-half-story
glass, brick and stone building will create a new
hub of bustling activity, uniting social and academic
aspects of a thriving college campus, while
optimizing the surrounding mountain views and
maximizing outdoor space with numerous porches
for inspiration and renewal.
The largest facility ever to be constructed on
the YHC campus, the Rollins Campus Center will
connect four distinct areas in a single, state-of-theart
structure: a 60,000-square-foot multi-purpose
student center, an expanded dining hall boasting a
wide variety of food stations, a 350-seat, versatile
banquet facility and a 40,000-square-foot modern
library—named for Young Harris’ most famous son,
Zell Miller, ’51, and his remarkable wife, Shirley, ’54.
The largest, most comprehensive facility in YHC’s
history, the Rollins Campus Center will provide the
infrastructure for the College to accommodate
growing student enrollment, enhance its academic
offerings and complete its transformation to a
vibrant, premier four-year liberal arts college.
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