People with disabilities can access Murkland Hall only through a narrow, heavy basement door and must remain in the basement as there is no handicap access to the floors above. Engineering students endure sweltering heat and unbearable echoes in the classrooms of Kingsbury. Cutting-edge research is miraculously conducted in the DeMeritt laboratory of physicist Bill Hersman, where research colleagues from Brigham and Women's Hospital visit each week, marveling at the conditions. Equipment worth thousands of dollars sits idle because there isn't enough power. We have faculty who are incredibly committed and students who are so engaged and energized by the faculty, all of whom are working in inadequate facilities.
Good students have lots of choice.
When families look at facilities, we frankly get low marks. The quality of our faculty and academic programs are the two things that attract students to our campus. Legislation calling for full funding of KEEP New Hampshire has garnered broad bipartisan support. Currently, New Hampshire ranks second behind only Colorado in high technology jobs per capita. Yet its vital role in fueling our new knowledge economy is threatened by sub-standard facilities in the fields of engineering and the physical sciences.