At long last, Move-In Day at Foundation Hall finally arrived on Monday, Jan. 18.
Foundation Hall is the first new residence facility to be constructed on Wagner College's 105-acre campus in more than 40 years. It was designed specifically as a residence for our fourth-year students, who are preparing for the transition to "life after Wagner." The building includes a high-tech class/conference center where Senior-Year Residence Experience seminars and other institutional meetings can be held.
Wagner's need for the new four-story residence hall, designed to house 192 students, was driven by its transformation over the past decade from a college where a majority of students were local commuters, into an institution drawing most of its students from outside New York City. About 75 percent of today's Wagner College undergraduates live in campus residence facilities.
Students moving in to their new residence hall started pushing big carts and hauling huge cartons from cars and across campus early Monday morning.
Pushing a cart in through the front door.
Every new resident in the new residence hall had to sign in at the front desk.
Some students had help moving in from their parents.
A key step in the move-in process: waiting for the elevator.
Lots of students helped one another move in to their new digs.
Foundation Hall has some great new residence facilities.
Large lounges anchor each end of each floor, with two complete walls
of floor-to-ceiling windows giving great views of the college campus.
This is the north lounge on the first floor.
Each floor has study lounges, too, like this one.
While most of the interior of Foundation Hall was completed in the nick of time, making it possible for students to move in to their new campus home, there was still some finishing work to be completed.
And, while parking areas and walking paths had all been completed, landscaping work had yet to be done.
Still, considering the number of tasks that had to be completed over the winter break in order to allow students to move in to Foundation Hall, there is no question but that the contractor, college administrators, and Residential Education staff had accomplished a truly Herculean assignment. Shown in this photo (left to right): Res Ed Director Sara Klein, Foundation Hall Residence Director Chris Diggs, and Res Ed Assistant Director Matt Hollingshead stand by as move-in proceeds.
Here is the floor plan of the suites in Foundation Hall. Each two-bedroom suite shares a commode, shower, double sink, and counter space. The bedrooms shown are set up with two beds separated (at bottom, left) and two beds bunked (right).
Senior Alexandra Klein, from Kentucky, works at her desk in one of the suites.
(Staten Island Advance photo/Jan Somma-Hammel)
Mike Pinto, a senior from Staten Island and president of the Student Government Association, sits at the desk in his Foundation Hall room.
(Staten Island Advance photo/Jan Somma-Hammel)
