The new Kinesiology building is open for the spring 2012 semester. This will provide more convenience for both students and faculty.

Alice Gibson, faculty member since 1999, is very excited about the new classrooms and technology. As a professor of human sexuality and fundamentals in health education, she appreciates the new facility.

“I think it’s great. We used to have only three classrooms, so we had twenty faculty members that were trying to teach in three classrooms,” said Gibson. “I used to teach in the Student Activity Center, but now its nice to be closer to my office.”

The building comes with new amenities such as a computer lab, nursing classrooms and solar panels.

“There are solar panels upstairs and they are used for hot water heating,” said Gibson. “We also have a computer lab now, and so our students are happy about that. It’s nice to have the new desks too. We have symposiums is most of the rooms and projectors in all of them. It makes learning easier for the students.”

The pool and showers are the primary uses for the hot water heater, however the panels were installed in order to save money in utilities and energy.

With the new building in use, now the whole college of Kinesiology and Health Studies can be under one roof.

“Our athletic training faculty was in the old nursing building, Mims Hall, but now everybody in our college is in one building,” said Gibson.

The nursing students now have resources for more in-depth learning about their desired profession, and they will now have more hands-on experience with full mannequins to learn from.

“Upstairs classrooms all have full beds and mannequins, they look like little hospital rooms,” said Gibson.

“The mannequins are as real as they can get,” said Allison Roubique, Southeastern alumnus in communication sciences and disorders, and graduate assistant to the nursing department.