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- [DOZIE IBEH] Princeton initially started with Nassau Hall
and the President's House in the 1750s
at the inception of the university,
and over the years we have continued
to grow as an institution.
In the 1890s, started moving across Washington Road
as we expanded further south towards Lake Carnegie.
The growth periods in the fifties were primarily driven
by federally funded research dollars
and so that drove a need for additional research facilities,
additional student spaces.
Then if you were to fast forward
into the nineties with the growth in engineering,
the university saw a 30% growth over a two decade period.
As we are expanding this current capital plan
I like to look at this period as our turn
to contribute to the university's continuous growth.
We're bringing on an additional 3 million square foot
as part of this capital plan.
I think institutions have to grow to continue to
attract the best minds, the best talents-
whether it be students and faculty-
and to do that we have to bring online facilities
that help them flourish and that is what we are doing
as part of this capital plan.
It's essential that we continue to evolve
as a campus community.
It has been a strategic initiative to grow the student body.
Increasing our student body helps us attract students
from all sectors of society.
The new Yeh College, the New College West
both colleges that were recently completed.
The other colleges in Design:
Hobson College and the graduate student housing
on the Meadows neighborhood.
Our facilities that we are bringing
on to help support this increased student body.
Princeton has had a history of art on campus
dating back to its founding in the 1750s.
We've had a collection that has been opened
to the campus community and the public
ever since the founding of the art museum.
This new facility that's been
designed by Sir David Adjaye
expands on that mission of teaching and research.
It's creating a series of pavilions-
light filled pavilions-
that are easily accessible to more people.
Before this new facility,
we were only able to display 3% of the artwork.
At the completion of this project
we'll be able to display a greater amount
of the collection.
We have a new development that's
for the Environmental Studies
and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
It's a 17 acre development on the east side of campus.
This building is extremely important
for interdisciplinary research
because it provides opportunities
for collaboration between all the disciplines.
It has state of the art facilities that would
allow groundbreaking research.
Sustainability informs all the projects
that we do on campus,
and we're very conscious to make sure
that all of our projects during the design process
and even during the construction process are sustainable.
The campus goal of being carbon neutral
by 2046 is really ambitious
and that involves introducing solar fields across campus.
We are upgrading our essential infrastructure
related to power, heating and cooling.
We're in a process of drilling dual wells.
It's going to be transferring us from steam to hot water
and we'll support our goals of 2046 of carbon neutrality.
As an institution, it's vital for us to take
into account the wellbeing of our campus community.
The UHS project, which is our new health facility
is easily accessible to our campus community.
It's design is intended to encourage individuals
to come to address any health issues
that they might have on campus.
In addition to that project
the Dillon Gym expansion, the Racquet Center,
the athletic fields that we are creating
are also supporting this initiative
of creating a well campus culture.
To be part of this significant growth is extremely exciting.
The facilities that we are creating today
are providing greater access to a Princeton education.
We're bringing on significant
impactful projects that's going to change and enhance
and support this institution for decades to come.
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