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President Uscher’s Remarks On Opening Of Cornish Commons

CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS - At 4:15 p.m. today, President Nancy Uscher and Capstone Development Partners principal Bruce McKee cut the red ribbon to open Cornish Commons, the latest addition to the Cornish College of the Arts' campus. Following are President Uscher's remarks on this historic occasion. My dear friends: Today we are making history. The new Cornish Commons is the first ground up building at Cornish since Kerry Hall was built in 1921. When Nellie Cornish opened up her piano studio in 1914, six years before women had the right to vote in the United States, she had an audacious dream to invent a new kind of school, one that would link the arts to the best thinking about education and innovation. She was a maverick and had tremendous impact on her students and the communities of her time – in Seattle, in the country and even across the Atlantic Ocean – which in her era was a world away.

Student Housing Business Innovator Awards – Best Architecture for >300 beds 2013

THE CARDINAL AT WEST CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS - This category of the Innovator Award in Best Architecture is awarded to the best architecture and design in a 300-bed or more project that proves best how project blends form and function; fits into the campus fabric and how the project uses green features to both serve the mission of the college/university as a forward-thinking institution as well as achieve operations and management cost savings.

Capstone to develop new dorms for UNA

UNA TIMES DAILY - Capstone Development Partnership, of Birmingham, got the nod to construct at least two new residence halls at the University of North Alabama. Capstone received verbal approval from the university's trustees to move forward with plans that would open two 350- to 400-bed freshman residence halls by the fall 2015 semester. It is part of a four-phase plan to replace aging halls with more modern living facilities.