Facilities

In September 1993 the F.W. Olin Foundation announced a $6-million gift to Luther for the construction of a new economics, business, mathematics, and computer science building, which was dedicated at Homecoming 1995.

Today, most accounting classes are held in the 43,000-square-foot Olin Building, which contains 33 faculty offices, four networked computer labs, 10 computer classrooms, a 137-seat auditorium/lecture hall, a large seminar room, a student study center, and conference/interview rooms.

Classrooms are designed to be flexible to encourage interaction between faculty and students and the formation of small study groups. Access to the labs is free for students and available 16 or more hours per day. These advanced technological facilities give students an edge in an increasingly technological world.

The Round Table Room, on Olin's third floor, features a network of 25 computer-based participant stations and one facilitator station, enabling concurrent and immediate sharing of ideas and information. The result is a blend of traditional across-the-table talk and electronic brainstorming, issue-analysis, commenting, assessment, prioritizing, and report writing.

The software—Facilitate.com—supports processes such as building agendas, developing surveys, and brainstorming, categorizing, prioritizing, and voting on ideas. It is used widely by educational, nonprofit, and corporate organizations worldwide.