Building For the Future

This four-story, 115,000 square foot building, positioned along the future IH-14 corridor, will be the new front door to Temple College where faculty and staff will welcome residents, students, and visitors. This structure will provide a single location for comprehensive student services, a conference center, classroom, offices, and much more.

The first floor will feature a student enrollment services center and a testing center, and allow students to inquire, apply, test, and enroll in one convenient location. The first floor will also feature a large conference space capable of hosting up to 650 guests for large College and community events. This space will include a terrace overlooking the new quad that will provide a beautiful green space for students to relax, play, and study.

Twenty-two classrooms and three computer labs will provide spaces for students to learn. A new Student Success Center on the third floor will provide tutoring and academic support for students. Also featured on the third floor is the University Partner Center, which will house advisors and faculty members from four-year, university partner institutions, and provide students the opportunity to earn a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree on the Temple College campus.

This building will also feature faculty and administrative offices, a board room, conference rooms and terraces on the third and fourth floors as well as a coffee bar and study space on the second floor, affectionately dubbed the Leopard Lounge.

Located across the street from the VA Hospital, this 71,000 square foot building will anchor the northern edge of campus, and serve as the new home for the visual arts program and workforce development center. The first floor will feature a beautiful art gallery. The adjacent lobby, south lawn, and patio will provide space for the College to host our community and showcase world-class exhibits featured in the gallery. Also featured on the first floor are ceramics, woodworking, and 3D art studios for student learning. Opposite the visual arts spaces will be four large, high-bay workforce laboratories that will serve as space for students to obtain industry-recognized credentials in subjects ranging across construction trades, logistics, advanced manufacturing, and robotics. The high bay labs are supported by adjacent computer labs where students can complete classroom work and earn credentials in computer aided drafting and design.

The second floor will feature additional visual arts learning spaces, including painting, drawing and photography studios as well as a graphics design computer lab. It will also feature a corporate training room and community learning room capable of hosting everything from an industry training luncheon to a mommy-and-me cookie decorating class.

Throughout the building are offices for visual arts and workforce faculty as well as general classrooms, computer labs, conference rooms, and a variety of support and auxiliary spaces.

Located on the east-side of campus, adjacent to the existing Health Sciences Center, this four-story 70,000 square foot building will provide the space needed for the College to expand its successful health science programs and meet the needs of our local employers.

The first floor will feature a sonography clinic, where community members volunteer to receive scans from students in the diagnostic medical sonography program. The second floor will feature seven large classrooms to provide much needed lecture spaces. The third floor will feature a nursing simulation center, complete with a task-trainer lab, two simulation bays, and a variety of debrief, conference and office spaces to facilitate the hands-on learning required to educate healthcare professionals. In partnership with the Baylor College of Medicine, the fourth floor will feature a specialized patient clinic, providing a clinical simulation environment for medical students.

The renovation of the Health Science Center is focused on modernizing and expanding the dental clinic and surgical technology simulation suite. The dental clinic not only serves as educational space for the College’s dental hygiene program, but also provides no-cost dental cleaning and x-ray services for community members. The renovation of the clinic will replace the twelve existing dental operatories (chairs and support equipment) and x-ray machines, as well as add four new operatories. The renovation to the surgical technology suite will rework the operating room and support spaces to provide a modernized learning environment and better organize the flow of the decontamination, clean processing, and scrub rooms to match what students will experience in modern hospital settings.

Located on the east side of campus, this three-building 17,500 square foot complex will feature an office building, complete with offices, meeting spaces, long-term record storage and a locker room for the College’s Physical Plant and Purchasing and Receiving departments. It will also feature a shop building and covered vehicle storage to provide a new, secure home for the College’s busses, equipment, and Mobile Go learning trailer.