January 21, 2020
Director Katherine Kennedy and Associate Director Pedro Falci were quoted in BU Today’s article “Take a Tour of the New and Expanded Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground.” They shared how this expanded location will allow us to increase our capacity without losing the cozy atmosphere we’re best known for:
Since its 19,000 square feet, spread over the building’s first and second floors, quintuple the space of the old center in the GSU, students worried that the new digs could “lose the coziness and the intimate feel,” says Pedro Falci (COM’11, Wheelock’15), HTC associate director.
“So we tried to create nooks and pods with the different furniture designs so a group of friends could, in essence, just take over a section.”
Whereas the old HTC averaged 600 to 700 students visiting during a week, expectations are a lot higher for the new space. “Now, we have the capacity to host thousands of students a day,” HTC director Katherine Kennedy says.
Read the full article here.