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By Kelly Mori, Staff Writer Updated 6:40 PM Monday, February 8, 2010

CEDARVILLE — When Cedarville University welcomes its first group of professional pharmacy majors in 2012, it will do so in a new $20 million Health Science Facility.

The 80,000-square-foot facility, scheduled to open in August 2012, is in the early design stages as the university continues a silent capital campaign, which has, to date, brought in more than $4 million, university spokesman John Davis said, Monday, Feb. 8.

In addition to offering high-tech simulation equipment for pharmacy students, the center will offer much-needed elbow room for the nursing department, said Marc Sweeney, dean of the School of Pharmacy. The nursing department, which added a masters degree program last year, has outgrown its current home in the Engineering, Nursing and Science Center by some 50 percent.

The ENS center “was built to accommodate 250 nursing students. Currently there are 350 nursing (students),” Sweeney said.

The new facility responds to the board of trustees’ directive to refocus the university’s resources by beefing up in-demand programs without passing the costs to students through tuition hikes. In January the university lowered its annual tuition increase by almost one-half, reduced staff by 19 positions and reduced operational costs by 2 percent.

“How does a new facility play into that?” Davis asked. “We have to meet the market demand and the demand of students. “Right now that is meeting the health care needs of our society.”

Ground breaking for the Health Sciences Facility is scheduled for March 2011. In the meantime, the university is working on finalizing its requirements to move its pre-pharmacy students to the professional pharmacy program Fall 2012.

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