{"id":3498,"date":"2014-07-08T10:23:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T14:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2014-07-08T10:25:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T14:25:01","slug":"daniels-hopes-center-becomes-model-for-other-universities-from-wlfi-tv-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/2014\/07\/08\/daniels-hopes-center-becomes-model-for-other-universities-from-wlfi-tv-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniels hopes center becomes model for other universities (WLFI TV 18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-meta\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta-primary-column\">WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) \u2013 One of the major projects on Purdue\u2019s campus this summer is the demolition of two buildings to make way for a brand new one, one that President Mitch Daniels hopes becomes a model for schools around the country.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Engineering Administration Building or ENAD and the old power plant are being torn down this summer to make way for a new active learning center.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels tells News 18 he hopes the center helps Purdue become a leader in modern higher education by providing a valuable and interactive campus experience. He said the active learning center is like a 21st century update to a library, by being technology-based, fully digital, with space for groups to meet both in the same room and around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very excited about this,\u201d said Daniels. \u201cWe think it will be the first of its kind in the country. If we\u2019ve guessed correctly, it will show the way to a new and improved way of teaching and learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniels said he hopes to set up similar spaces in multiple campus buildings including residence halls. He hopes it helps justify the residential university experience.<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-meta-primary-column\"><span class=\"byline\">By Dan Klein<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-meta-primary-column\"><span class=\"posted-on\" style=\"color: #888888\">Published:\u00a0July 4, 2014, 7:53 pm\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p>http:\/\/wlfi.com\/2014\/07\/04\/daniels-hopes-center-becomes-model-for-other-universities\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\" style=\"color: #454545\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) \u2013 One of the major projects on Purdue\u2019s campus this summer is the demolition of two buildings to make way for a brand new one, one that President Mitch Daniels hopes becomes a model for schools around the country. The Engineering Administration Building or ENAD and the old power plant are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-press_release"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pT6ms-Uq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3501,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions\/3501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}