A $10,000,000 expansion program for the Midtown Center of Yeshiva University was announced here yesterday. The expansion will include construction of a $4,500,000 classroom building for Stern College for Women, acquisition of a $4,000,000 apartment-hotel as a residence hall for its students, and a $1,500,000 renovation of the existing facility of Stern College for Women.
The new building to be erected on a 6,000 square foot plot will be an 11-story structure, with two sub-level floors, and containing 38 classrooms capable of accommodating 1,200 students; It will have in excess of 70,000 square feet of space. Construction is scheduled to begin next Fall and be completed by September, 1967.
The facility, which will also be utilized by the University’s Teachers Institute for Women, also will contain administrative offices, lecture halls, dining room, kitchen, a library with space for over 100,000 volumes, and a psychology center, which will include a language laboratory, experimental animal room and psychology laboratory. The classroom building will be connected to the existing structure on each of the latter’s five floors, enabling the two to be utilized as a single academic and administrative unit.
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