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College Facilities

College programs are housed in six buildings : W. H. Councill Hall, E. G. McGehee Hall, the Joe L. Reed Acadome, the Zelia Stephens Early Childhood Center,  the  Levi Watkins Learning Center, and the Doctoral Program Annex. These facilities and other buildings, on campus and at selected locations outside Montgomery , are scheduled by the university.

Currently, the university is engaged in the development of a new, dedicated, College of Education facility. Funding for this facility , over $30,000,000, has been allocated; construction has begun, and the completion and move-in date has been set for 2009. Estimates indicate that 68,000 square feet of this new construction will be dedicated to COE programs. The architectural elevations for the new Ralph D. Abernathy College of Education building are on display in the exhibit room.

Facilities for Technology

A distance education facility is available for use in the Levi Watkins Learning Center. In addition, the college manages seven fixed location technology laboratories and one portable wireless laboratory. The college also has access to 21 additional technology laboratories across campus. While these facilities are all computer laboratories, each has a specific function, such as a reading lab, math/science tutorial lab, fine arts lab, portfolio lab. The diversity in laboratory function allows the faculty to model technology use across many different instructional modes.

Figure 6.2 New College of Education Building

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