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Living Learning Center to offer
Watauga residents partial dining
Facility to be utilized during special days,
events |
Chris
Bohle
Business Affairs Beat |
Future residents of the
Living Learning Center will have access to a new dining facility,
although it will not be full-service, said W. Ron Dubberly, director
of Food Services at Appalachian State University.
“There was not enough room for a full kitchen in the Living Learning
Center, so we will just have a serving room with a seating area adjacent
to it,” said Dubberly.
The dining room will hold about 200 people and will be used primarily
for the Watauga College program.
“The faculty and students in the Watauga College have wanted
to live and eat together for some time now,” said Dr. Richard
M. Carp, director of Watauga College and chairperson of the Department
of Interdisciplinary Studies. “This will give them that opportunity.”
Lunch will be delivered to the Living Learning Center (LLC) on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays for students and faculty, in addition to one
“sit-down dinner per semester,” said Carp.
“We’ll bring [the food] up from Welborn—we’ll
pick a couple entrees, sides and desserts, and put them in warming
cabinets we will have [at the LLC],” he said.
Watauga College students will be in the Living Learning Center for
classes on those days between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., so the opportunity
to combine dining with lectures and information sessions was enticing
for the program.
“The meals will be viewed as part of the academic program—sometimes
we may have presentations or something similar to accompany the meals,”
said Carp.
Carp said freshmen are the main targets of the meals, with hopes of
getting them familiar with the program and those involved in the program.
Since the meals will be offered to just Watauga College students,
these individuals will have two meal accounts from which they purchase
food.
“If we were to use the high meal-plan as an example, these students
will have that split up and have, say, $400 for his or her meals in
the Living Learning Center, and $524 for the rest of campus facilities,”
said Dubberly.
Both accounts will work on the same declining balance basis as before,
he said.
In addition to the organized meals, a small breakfast-stand may be
built in the Living Learning Center that would be available to all
students, including non-Watauga College participants.
“We’re looking into a coffee-cart type of service that would
offer coffee, juices, bagels and pastries Mondays through Fridays,”
said Dubberly. “We’re not sure about it right now—we’re
not going to do it unless it pays for itself.”
Dubberly said he just discussed these plans with Watauga College faculty
and staff for the first time last Monday, so no details are known
yet.
The Living Learning Center is expected to be fully completed by the
end of this semester. |
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