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MORGANTOWN -The West Virginia University Alumni association cut the ribbon at its "new home for the Mountaineers" on Oct. 23.
The recently completed Erickson Alumni Center, more than five years in planning and construction, updates the organization's technology and quadruples its space with casual and formal meeting venues of all sizes.
More Enrollment Means More Alumni
When the association's last Erickson Alumni Center was built in 1986, WVU's alumni base was about 90,000, according to spokeswoman Tara Curtis.
Today, it stands at more than 170,000 - and with annual enrollment up from 17,000 in the mid-1980s to more than 28,000 today, that number promises to grow quickly.
To serve those graduates into the future, the association asked about 800 alumni about their ideal home on campus.
Alumni asked for a facility that is both traditional and practical, Curtis said.
So designers IKM Architects of Pittsburgh took the look of historical Woodburn Hall to the newer Evansdale campus and included...