Tuesday, March 16, 1999
Money approved for NKU center
Math and science courses to benefit
The Associated Press
FRANKFORT — As anticipated, funding for a science and mathematics center at Northern Kentucky University won state approval Monday.
The money — $2.2 million, to be matched by the university — is from a fund created to encourage Kentucky's regional universities to develop programs of distinction.
The proposed Center for Integrative Natural Science and Mathematics would prepare math and science teachers for elementary, middle and high schools.
It also would prepare math and science majors for jobs in business and industry and help other NKU undergraduates, regardless of major, improve critical thinking skills.
Money for the center, as approved Monday by the Council on Postsecondary Education, is to begin in the 1999-2000 academic year. As required by the state, NKU rearranged its budget to match the state trust funds.
The center is the academic program that will partner with NKU's new $38 million science center, once that building is completed in 2001. The center will work with students and teachers starting in kindergarten in computers, math and the sciences.
No degrees will be offered through the center, but programs will affect every undergraduate through a two-semester integrative science sequence.
The university will spend $3.9 million to fund the center for the first three years and $2.8 million to fund the center's fourth and fifth years.
“The interdisciplinary nature of this reflects the future,” NKU President James Votruba said of the proposed center in January. “And it builds on the science building.”
The final approval ends more than a decade of struggle to fund the building.
NKU has twice the percentage of science majors (10 percent) as other state universities, yet only half the lab space per student.
Enquirer reporter William A. Weathers contributed to this report.
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