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Roger Williams University Opens New Global Heritage Hall

September 23, 2009 | No Comments | Community, Featured, On Campus

After a nearly six-year financial planning process, 10 months of design and a 12-month construction period, Roger Williams University opened the doors today to its Global Heritage Hall, a premier state-of-the-art learning center and the “hub” of global research, scholarship, study and collaboration for the Roger Williams University community.

Destined to become a hallmark of the RWU Bristol campus, the 52,000 square foot, four-story facility boasts a three-story atrium, outdoor terrace area for teaching and a light-filled, technology-rich learning center. The Global Heritage Hall is home to:

The departments of History; Communication and Graphic Design; Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition; English and Creative Writing; and Foreign Languages, Philosophy and Classics
The Peggy and Marc Spiegel Center for Global & International Programs
The Donald C. McGraw Foundation Communications Labs
Multimedia Communications Studio and Newsroom
The Robert F. Stoico/FIRSTFED World Languages Center
Seven Heritage Classrooms that serve as a gateway to the world for the RWU community. With one still to be assigned, the following six heritages each have a devoted classroom in the Global Heritage Hall: African-American, Bristolian, Italian, Latino, Native American, and Portuguese.

The Global Heritage Hall is the latest in a string of significant capital projects completed by the University in 2009. The new North Campus Residence Village and the new University Alumni & Admissions Center are some of the recent construction projects enhancing RWU’s Bristol campus. Funded through a $1 million Economic Development Administration (EDA) grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce, the University also completed the expansion of its Marine & Natural Sciences Building that is home to RWU’s Center for Environmental and Economic Development.

Members of the media are welcomed to tour the Global Heritage Hall by contacting Kathleen Lowe, director of Media and Marketing Services by calling (401) 254-5206.