A ribbon-cutting ceremony earlier this month marked the opening of a new interactive learning center at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. The center is the first renovation completed as part of Haas’s five-year capital campaign and the dean’s strategic plan to transform the campus.
Haas Dean Rich Lyons was joined by Koret Foundation CEO Jeff Farber on January 12th to celebrate the opening of the new Koret Interactive Learning Center, a 70-seat, tiered classroom complete with state-of-the-art video conferencing, dual-screen projectors, extensive white boards and a high-tech touch-screen lectern.
The center was funded in part by a $1.5 million grant from the Koret Foundation, a private philanthropic organization created by the estates of Joseph and Stephanie Koret, founders of the Koret of California sportswear line.
“This is the perfect exemplar of what the next level will feel like,” Lyons said at the event, adding that the interactive center will benefit both the school’s teaching and its commitment to cutting-edge research. In addition to its main classroom, the learning center also includes two break-out rooms that will double as a behavioral lab for Haas faculty.
The Koret grant came as part of the silent phase of the Campaign for Haas, a five-year capital campaign. Construction of the Koret Center began at the end of May 2009. Haas’s Evening & Weekend MBA Program began using the Koret classroom earlier this month, and an open house for the entire Haas community has been scheduled for March.
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