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Capital Projects Memorial Union and Jason Downer Commons

Goal: $11 million

With the opening of our new Richard and Margot Warch Campus Center, Memorial Union will have lost its mission - but not its value. The building will be the new home to a variety of programs designed to connect Lawrence students with each other, with faculty, and to the city of Appleton and beyond. Through these programs, Fox Valley organizations will have a “portal to the university” where they can make connections with and benefit from our educational programs, volunteer and employment opportunities, and more.

Among the programs to be housed in the renovated Memorial Union are:

  • Career Center
  • Volunteer Center
  • ArtsBridge
  • Center for Community Engaged Learning
  • Viking Room and adjacent solarium
  • Heritage Room

Like the campus center, the renovated Memorial Union will be LEED certified, in keeping with the highest standards of environmental stewardship.

Because the new campus center will handle many of the functions that are now housed in Downer Commons, we’re able to use this building for varied and flexible academic purposes. Architectural designs for the new space ensure that the building will look at home on our picturesque campus.