{"id":1924,"date":"2019-02-28T13:56:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T21:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/aquaculture\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2019-02-28T14:02:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T22:02:01","slug":"the-academic-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/aquaculture\/2019\/02\/28\/the-academic-village\/","title":{"rendered":"The Academic Village"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Figure 1. Location of the Sandholdt Property adjacent to the Main Building of MLML. The yellow line represents the boundaries of the property.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2005, MLML and the SJSU Research Foundation purchased 9.2 acres adjacent to the main MLML building (Figs. 1 & 2) with the intent of building an Academic Village. Anyone that has attended MLML realizes that one of the main impediments to student life here is housing. It is a critical need for everyone, but students at MLML are particularly impacted because tuition and living costs have increased dramatically, housing in the area is scarce and expensive, and the cost of conducting field-based research also is increasing. We have always realized we needed housing and other amenities to remain competitive and better serve our students, so this property and the building plans are critical to our future.<\/p>\n

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Figure 2. Sandholdt Property, the future site of the MLML Academic Village<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Academic Village is a planned development to be built with state-of-the-art sustainable methods, and would provide housing for our residential graduate students, summer course participants, consortium classes, field trips for K-12 students, and visiting scientists (Fig. 3). The conference center\/research facility would provide space for larger classes than are possible at the Main Lab building, and would provide lab space for collaborating scientists and classes (Fig. 4).\u00a0 Our concept is to provide all of the activities listed above, greatly increase our capability of serving larger undergraduate courses, and maintain a sense of a marine science community using sustainable \u201cgreen\u201d building methods.<\/p>\n

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The Academic Village would include:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n