Campus question

[bulldogcountry1]

There are about 25 houses on the south end of campus. It essentially looks like a neighborhood, but they all have MSU signs that say "Center for _______". For 20 years, I have seen them, but don't really know the purpose of them. Are they part of a curriculum? Are they for student support? Are they for faculty? What gives? Only a few of them have enough parking for more than 5 cars.

 

[Capnboomstick]

Most are old faculty houses that have been converted into offices. They house random departments like Internal Audit, Environmental Health & Safety, Research Compliance, etc. they moved departments out to the houses because they ran out of room on other parts of campus.

There are a few parking lots in the area. There’s a decent sized dirt lot across the street from the Oak and Magnolia dorms.

I work in one of the houses, AMA.

 

[MeridianDog]

The Admin Office for the State Chemical Lab was in one of them.

 

[biodawg]

I took the GRE in one of those houses in 2008

 

[Bigdawghouse83]

That was my neighborhood growing up from 1970-1978. I lived on Morgan Ave. , and my pals lived over on Magruder. A wonderful place to live as a young kid, and so many places to go/ things to do. Slowly became offices for random parts of the Admin., but a few are still for faculty. The old pool next to the tin gym, Handball courts, Girls dorms, Streakers, Stealing doughnuts early am from the DP.....the list goes on.

 

[57stratdawg]

You’re not the only one

 

[FQDawg]

Some are offices as others have mentioned but some are still short-term housing for newly-hired faculty and staff.