James White Library: Creating a Modern Collaborative Learning Space

Our Goal

• Raise $10,000 to fund the creation of a collaborative learning space for students’ and faculty’s engagement and learning. Consider making a monthly gift to our project and spread the word to your community!

Supporting James White Library’s Cause

This Giving Day, we rally support for Creating a Modern Collaborative Learning Space. We plan to repurpose and update the Reference area as a modern collaborative space for peer-to-peer learning where students can work in small groups, engage in tutorials, solve problems, and participate in knowledge exchange. This space will support a new generation of students’ and faculty’s learning and research activities. The concept is a technology-rich space that can serve as maker spaces, group study spaces, academic learning spaces, and presentation rooms.

Collective Impact

At the James White Library, your gift matters!  With the help of donors like you, the James White Library can innovate its spaces to support engaged and self-directed learning.  Your contribution will impact what we can achieve together.  You can further enhance the JWL as an invaluable resource for students, professors, parents, and people everywhere.

Take Up the Challenge

This project will impact learning on the Andrews University campus in many ways:

• Improve academic achievement and student retention.
• Increase traffic and usage of library resources/spaces for collaborative learning.
• Greater interaction and networking among students increase understanding of concepts from diverse perspectives.
• Students’ use of collaborative spaces helps in the development of higher-level thinking.
• Collaborative knowledge engagement strengthens the campus culture that supports inquiry and cross-disciplinary research.
• Increase interaction among diverse students prepares them for real-life work environments in a globalized world.