{"id":17085,"date":"2015-08-25T18:02:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T18:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=17085"},"modified":"2015-08-25T18:02:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T18:02:37","slug":"new-foster-campus-impresses-in-its-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2015\/08\/new-foster-campus-impresses-in-its-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"New Foster Campus impresses in its debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17089\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/foster1-aug15.jpg\" alt=\"Baylor's Foster Campus for Business &amp; Innovation\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/foster1-aug15.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/foster1-aug15-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The start of classes Monday also meant the debut of Baylor&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2014\/02\/new-foster-business-campus-designed-with-community-in-mind\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation<\/a>, the new home for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/business\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hankamer School of Business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Built just down\u00a0Third Street from the President&#8217;s Albritton House and across Bagby Avenue from East Village (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/map\/index.php?c=FOSTER\" target=\"_blank\">map<\/a>), the new facility\u00a0offers\u00a040% more square footage for business school students and faculty &#8212; an increasing priority, given that about <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorlariat.com\/2015\/08\/23\/paul-l-foster-campus-for-business-innovation-opens-for-fall-premiere-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">1 in 5 Baylor students is a\u00a0business major<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was fun to walk around the Foster Campus last week and this week and watch the students who were getting their first look at the facility.\u00a0We shared some\u00a0first impressions and photos on Twitter last week (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BaylorProud\/status\/635247887182512128\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BaylorProud\/status\/635248057345400832\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BaylorProud\/status\/635248250425966592\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BaylorProud\/status\/635248447491194881\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BaylorProud\/status\/635248600549736448\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), and Baylor shared\u00a0photos and videos on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10153585043181926.1073742144.61388081925&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/bayloruniversity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wd8WWhpdkFA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>. See for yourself:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zkQPjejjBGg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The project was made possible by <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2014\/01\/new-business-school-moving-forward-thanks-to-alumni-and-waco-residents\/\" target=\"_blank\">a host of alumni and other supporters<\/a>, led by El Paso business leader\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2013\/06\/largest-gift-in-baylor-history-to-support-new-b-school-building-and-baylor-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul L. Foster<\/a>, BBA &#8217;79, and his wife,\u00a0Alejandra. And with the business school moving out of the Hankamer\/Cashion complex, Regents have approved funds to renovate those spaces to <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2015\/08\/anonymous-gift-to-transform-baylor-communication-sciences-disorders-department\/\" target=\"_blank\">house new tenants<\/a>, including\u00a0communication sciences &amp;\u00a0disorders and computer science.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor Business!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The start of classes Monday also meant the debut of Baylor&#8217;s Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation, the new home for the Hankamer School of Business. Built just down\u00a0Third Street from the President&#8217;s Albritton House and across Bagby Avenue from East Village (map), the new facility\u00a0offers\u00a040% more square footage for business school students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,17,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-photo-galleries","category-vision","category-student-life","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}