Complaints from people in higher education about never having enough money are belied by the grand array of building projects at colleges across America. There is hardly an institution over which a crane does not hover, and few campuses are free of the muddy tracks of heavy equipment that herald the creation of a brand-new structure or the massive renovation of an old one. Indeed, one authority on the construction boom suggests that the acquisition of space for new buildings is more crucial than their design, pointing to the many vacant big-box retail buildings around the country as prime sites for future classrooms.
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