How the redesign aims to enhance student success – Observer

Starting in January, 2023, classrooms like this have gotten new insulation, new walls built and new technological features to improve the experiences of students and staff in ECC’s Building H.

The reconstruction of Elgin Community College’s Building H began on Jan. 4, 2023. Building H is the visual and performing arts sector of ECC, and as of December 2022, all the students and faculty within these programs were moved throughout ECC. 

Mary Perkins, the current dean of liberal, visual and performing arts has assisted faculty with this move and has been a large part of Building H’s renovation. As of June 2022, she transitioned from another division at the college where she oversaw the division of College Transitions and Secondary Partnerships.

“[The renovation] is much needed,”…