CALGARY – Students at SAIT Polytechnic are helping decide if a new student centre will be built on campus.
Since 2009, SAIT students have been contributing to a restricted fund created for the purpose of constructing a new student-dedicated space.
A referendum held from Nov. 4 – 6 will determine if the SAIT Students’ Association (SAITSA) can access that money and begin construction on a building for students and students alone.
“Having a new student-focused building on campus would mean we could offer services that aren’t currently available,” explains SAITSA President Brigitte Matheson in a video posted to the association’s website.
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The new building would be located in the southeast corner of the Campus Centre, near the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium.
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“After years of student surveys, consultations, meetings and research – it has been determined that SAIT students want a space of their own,” added Matheson.
According to Matheson, the project would not cause an increase in SAITSA fees.
SAITSA partnered with Gibbs Gage Architects to create a preliminary design for the building – the same company behind SAIT’s Trades and Technologies complex which opened in 2012.
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