COPA is a new and exciting aspect of the HPER Center where the campus community can check out camping gear, bikes, canoes and other outdoor supplies for no charge, as well as register for upcoming courses to prepare them for their next outdoor adventure.

Anthony Fillippino, assistant director of COPA, is happy to help students plan their next camping trip, whether he is recommending the best gear for their trip or giving them safety tips for traveling the great outdoors. “We spent about six months researching products by brand and model to ensure we have quality products for our customers. At the same time, we worked with state and national agencies that oversee locations to visit in Arkansas,” Fillippino said. “I am glad that we have the ability to purchase quality products and provide our students, faculty and staff with numerous and great places to encourage them to get outdoors.”

COPA also offers trips, activities, clinics and seminars related to outdoor activities. The COPA staff teach classes and also partner with local outdoor businesses to assist in teaching classes to train those interested in learning outdoor skills such as kayaking or canoeing. The COPA staff has also partnered with local Conway business, The Ride, and will repair students’ personal bicycles at no charge. Teaming up with the community is just one more way BTÌìÌÃstays healthy.

He seems quiet, reserved and almost shy as he cautiously pulls out his mobile device to stop the silent vibrations indicating that he has messages waiting for a response. Sheepishly, he grins as he stares at the device before beginning to tap on its screen. He stops tapping but continues to look down. Within just a few seconds, he quietly chuckles and starts to tap on the screen again.

When he finishes, University of Central Arkansas Police Department Staff Sgt. Brad Moore slides the phone back into his pocket before he re-engages in conversation with other police officers as they enjoy lunch.

As the primary voice behind UCAPD’s Twitter account, Moore is in constant communication with account followers.

“I am on Twitter from about 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. seven days a week,” Moore said while explaining that at least four others in the campus police department have access to the account, but he has the primary responsibility for it.

He comments or responds to questions while on vacation, in the grocery store and other odd places and times.

“I actually responded to someone while sitting in church,” Moore said. “The student wanted to know if he could park in faculty/staff parking on Sundays.”

The answer was yes, but Moore generally goes further. He saved images of specific policies and procedures from the BTÌìÌÃStudent Handbook and other sources that answer some of the most frequently asked questions he receives. He posts the images with his responses.

This increased communication between campus police and students was the major goal behind the UCAPD’s decision to begin using Twitter in September 2013 with the handle .

“I often tell our officers, you, as a uniformed police officer on this campus, are going to perhaps be the first person in law enforcement that many of our students will ever have contact with, so that means that we can change people’s perceptions by the way that we conduct ourselves,” said UCAPD Chief Larry James. “We have to have that softer side.”

Moore showed his softer side to followers his very first day managing the account. “The very first day we started it, it was taken away from me,” he said.

He said a student was on Twitter complaining about the number of tickets he had received. “The student tweeted, ‘If I get just one more ticket, just one more ticket,’ and I posted, ‘Where are you parked, and what are you driving?’ ” Moore recalled with a hearty laugh.

Moore was immediately removed from his Twitter duties and told to apologize to the student. He invited the student to the police department for a personal apology. Upon arrival, the student told Moore he thought the response was hilarious.

From then on, Moore was given a little freedom in his interactions with followers, who seem to enjoy his jokes that are often laced with a hint of sarcasm.

“I misspelled a word this one time in a tweet, and I got called out on it,” he said. “I responded with another tweet, and I said something like, ‘I guess I shouldn’t be tweeting and driving,’ and the students just loved it.”

Fun and games take a backseat during more serious times on campus such as snow days when the police department tweets almost 24 hours a day updating its audience about road conditions on and off campus, campus closure information, and weather updates while also responding to questions and concerns.

During campus closures in February and March due to inclement weather, the UCAPD Twitter account saw its followers grow from 4,400 on Feb. 14 to 5,299 on Feb. 21. By March 2, the number had increased to 5,444.

With that increase of more than 1,000 new followers, the Twitter account continues to prove to be a useful tool for the department.

Moore and the department initially decided to shield his identity as another strategy to connect to the audience.

“Students were approaching officers at night asking them if they were doing the Twitter account. Well, that opened up the communications between students and our patrol,” Moore said.

“If they come to us with little, bitty things, to me, if they can do that, then if something major happens, they have no problem coming to us. They can come straight to us and feel free to talk to us.”

According to a 2010 article published in the Harvard Business Review, employee wellness programs have been commonly seen as a nice workplace perk, but they are not necessarily viewed as a tactical imperative. However, a growing body of data suggests otherwise. The article demonstrated that the ROI on comprehensive well-run employee wellness programs can be as high as 6 to 1.¹

For example, leaders at Johnson & Johnson, a large multinational company with employees scattered across the globe, estimate that ‘wellness programs have cumulatively saved the company around $250 million in healthcare costs throughout the past decade; from 2002 to 2008, the return was $2.71 for every dollar spent.’²

‘Employee health and satisfaction is a critical issue that is linked to a number of positive outcomes for employees and organizations including reduced healthcare costs, improved quality of life and higher employee morale,’ said Dr. Michael Hargis, dean of the BTÌìÌÃCollege of Business.

A recent RAND Corporation study found that 85% of U.S. companies that have at least 1,000 employs offer some variety of workplace wellness program.³ Clearly, large companies understand that having a healthy workforce not only contributes to a healthy outcome, but also to greater overall employee productivity and fewer missed workdays due to illness from employees, according to Gallup, Inc.⁴

‘Regardless of the size of the firm, companies need to proactively build programs that promote and encourage overall wellness,’ said Hargis. ‘When effectively managed, these programs can provide strong returns, but perhaps more importantly, workplace wellness programs demonstrate a commitment to building and sustaining a culture that recognizes the value of the people behind the business.’

At UCA, a wellness program has been offered to employees for more than a decade. ShapeUp BTÌìÌÃis designed to be simple, easy and fun. Participants engage in physical activity in their own time and attend one or two health-related lectures depending on which plan they choose. Monetary incentives are awarded to those who complete the wellness plan.

More than 40% of qualified, full-time employees participate in ShapeUp UCA, which is nearly double the national average for workplace wellness programs.⁵ ‘It keeps me accountable for what I need to be doing,’ said Linda Horton, an administrative assistant in the office of candidate services who has been in the program since 2006. ‘I really enjoy the 90 bucks! That’s helpful. But, I also know this is helping me in my physical and mental health. It just keeps me on track.’

‘One of the main reasons we offer this program is to educate our employees about creating and maintaining a healthy lifestyle,’ said Hargis. ‘Not only does this lead to a reduction in absenteeism, but more importantly, it helps create an environment of good health, which ultimately leads to lower healthcare costs.’

Horton said she even enjoys the mandatory classes, which can range in topic from ‘Fad Diets’ to ‘Neck, Back & Shoulder Problems From Sitting At Your Desk’ to ‘Migraines’. ‘[They] are very helpful. In fact, last semester I went to three,’ Horton said.

ShapeUp BTÌìÌÃis just one component to UCA’s holistic approach to wellness. Employees have access to a variety of services at free or discounted rates that encompass every aspect of the well-being model. Prevention is a big part of UCA’s promise to keep employees healthy, and by providing employees with access to free counseling, lecture series, HPER memberships and multiple volunteer opportunities to foster a healthy relationship with the Conway community, BTÌìÌÃhas kept that promise.

THE FIVE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF

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Gallup and Healthways have developed a comprehensive, definitive source of well-being measurement, the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being 5. This scientific survey instrument and reporting experience measures, tracks, and reports on the well-being of individuals and organizations.

¹Baun, W. B., Berry, L. L., & Mirabito, A. M. (2010, December). What’s the hard return on employee wellness programs? Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from ²Baun, W. B., Berry, L. L., & Mirabito, A. M. (2010, December). What’s the hard return on employee wellness programs? Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from ³RAND Health. (2012) A review of the u.s. workplace wellness market. Retrieved from ⁴Harter, J., & O’Boyle, E. (2014). Why your workplace wellness program isn’t working. Gallup. Retrieved from www.gallup.com/businessjournal/168995/why-workplace-wellness-program-isn-working.aspx ⁵RAND Health. (2012) Workplace wellness programs study. Retrieved from

“We can prepare the most nutritionally balanced plate of food,” Roofe said, “but if people don’t know where to buy the ingredients or how to prepare the food, then we haven’t helped anyone.”

Helping people become healthier through proper nutrition is the goal of every registered dietitian nutritionist, including Roofe, who recently received a grant on behalf of BTÌìÌÃfrom the Produce for Better Health Foundation.

The foundation grant is aimed at motivating local consumers to eat more fruits and vegetables. It allows Roofe to collaborate with a grocery store in eastern Conway to provide grocery store tours and in-store demonstrations.

“We could bring you to our campus, sit you in a classroom and tell you that you need to buy more fruits and vegetables,” Roofe said. “Instead we look at your grocery list, and we go to the store with you and show you.”

Earlier this year, Roofe, as well as an entourage of 10 graduate-level dietetic interns and 41 senior-level nutrition students from UCA, converged on the grocery store for a tour.

The team collected samples of fresh, frozen, canned and dried fruits and vegetables. They performed cost-per-unit comparative analyses, as well as taste tests.

“I was surprised at the cost of dried fruit and the sugar content,” said Deidra Strom, a senior nutrition student. “You have to pay close attention to serving sizes when it comes to dried fruit. Your label is your friend.”

The tour and in-store demonstrations last for about an hour. As part of the visit, students tasted the produce in various states and reviewed recipes.

The students and dietetic interns paid close attention to the comparison of fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables.

Vincent Suha, a senior nutrition student, said, “A lot of people don’t consider frozen veggies and fruits.” He continued, “There are so many applications that you can use frozen vegetables and frozen fruits that are just as good as anything else, and it will often be cheaper because you can get a larger amount.”

The 41 senior nutrition students were taught to conduct these grocery store tours by the 10 dietetic interns. The undergraduate students are then required to take the lessons they learned through the in-store tours and teach three more people each.

“We are going to potentially reach 123 people, or 133 when you count the interns,” Roofe said. “We assume that we are going to touch more people and we are really hoping for a ripple effect.”

That ripple effect includes follow-up contact this fall with the 123 consumers who were given grocery store tours by senior nutrition students.

“That’s the thing with community practices,” Roofe said. “Sometimes it looks like you are just having fun, but there is a strategy behind it.”

The Produce for Better Health Foundation stipulated that grantees develop a partnership with local grocery stores, which allowed Roofe to collaborate with Harps Foods in eastern Conway.

“We work with individuals and families in their communities, where they are,” Roofe said. “Our goal is to take the learning to them. We wanted to start where we thought the need was greatest.”

The $32,000 grant is renewable, and Roofe believes the funds can be secured for several more semesters to buy more supplies, continue and expand grocery store partnerships and conduct more tours with more consumers.

“We are hoping for that opportunity to share something with consumers that they may not know, and by giving these tours we are given that opportunity,” Suha said. “It is very rewarding.”

Amber Harrell knew from the time she was a little girl that she wanted to be a nurse, and that career has led her back to her alma mater as the women’s health provider for the BTÌìÌÃStudent Health Center (SHC).

“Women’s health is definitely my dream job,” Harrell said. “I love working here and being able to connect with the patients. I feel like they need somebody who is going to sit down and talk to them and educate them.”

Harrell is a mother of three: Lauren Scroggins, a senior at Conway High; Jackson Harrell, a fifth grader at Carl Stuart Middle School; and Sophia Harrell, a third grader at Jim Stone Elementary. She is married to Seth Harrell, a BTÌìÌÃgraduate who is a physical therapist in Conway.

A third-generation nurse originally from Helena, Harrell went to high school in Morrilton and earned her bachelor’s in nursing from BTÌìÌÃin 2002. After five years as an RN at Conway Women’s Health Center, she chose to return to school, and she finished her Master of Science in Nursing in December 2010 before being hired in January 2011 as a board-certified family nurse practitioner.

“One of my clinical sites was at the BTÌìÌÃStudent Health Center with (former nurse practitioner and center director) Candace Welcher,” Harrell said. “I loved the clinic from the time I was a student, and once I graduated, I applied, went for an interview, and somehow I convinced them to hire me.”

Shortly after she was hired, the Women’s Health Clinic position opened, and she’s been a natural there ever since.

“Because I’ve always loved women’s health, I took that spot as women’s health nurse practitioner,” she said.

The Women’s Health Clinic, located on the second floor of the SHC, is a far cry from the limited services offered in the previous location in the basement of Bernard Hall. Harrell said Welcher and former SHC assistant director Christie McCrory had the vision for the state-of-the-art facility that opened in 2007.

“Candace wanted a space dedicated to women’s health to allow it to be more private,” Harrell said. “That’s why she envisioned it on the second floor.”

Patients check in at the first-floor reception area before going upstairs to see Harrell and Janet Branscum, LPN, for services such as routine health exams including PAP smears, breast exams, pelvic exams, other diagnostic lab tests, birth control, screening for sexually transmitted diseases and infections, and various other women’s health needs and education.

“We’re busy,” Harrell said. “We’re booked up a couple of weeks in advance. We do a lot of birth control consults, annual well women’s exams, breast exams, and we teach students how to do their own, and we treat common gynecological problems.”

She sees 16 appointments on Mondays and eight every morning, Tuesday through Friday. Tuesday through Friday afternoons are held for primary care patients or emergencies.

Use of the facility has more than doubled since the Women’s Health Clinic opened in 2007. According to information from the SHC staff, the Women’s Health Clinic served, on average, 198 patients per month in 2014.

“Some of them come in and know exactly what they are wanting or needing, and others have been sheltered and don’t know all the services out there or what they need for their own personal women’s health needs,” Harrell said. “We do a lot of education as well and try to teach them about safety and taking care of themselves.” “I feel like we have something extra special.” Her patients, it seems, feel the same way about her.

“Amber Harrell has done an exceptional job as the women’s health provider for BTÌìÌÃSHC,” said Rochelle McFerguson, director of the Student Health Center. “I have had many students state that they use our Women’s Health Clinic and think that Amber is ‘awesome.’ They often refer to her as being very patient, kind and gentle. They feel at ease with her and the rest of the staff. I am so proud of the work that Amber and Janet do in women’s health.” The Women’s Health Clinic is just one part of UCA’s Student Health Center, which also offers treatment of minor illnesses and injuries, treatment of some chronic illnesses, allergy injections and physical examinations, as well as immunizations and vaccines and lab and X-ray services.

Dr. Randy Pastor is the medical director and four other advanced practice registered nurses are on staff.

“There is so much we offer that even as a student I didn’t realize,” Harrell said. “It’s amazing. I think the students are so lucky to have this. Not all campuses offer what we do.” She said the Student Health Center staff was united in its dedication to the BTÌìÌÃcommunity.

“We all work together for the common goal of providing excellent health care to our students, faculty and staff,” Harrell said. “From the business office, to the lab, to the nurses and providers, we are all a team, and that team effort is what makes BTÌìÌÃStudent Health such a great place.”

Most people thought the talented University of Central Arkansas soccer player might never walk normally again, if at all. Playing collegiate soccer seemed like an impossible dream… for everyone except Jacob Campbell.

On June 24, 2013, the summer after his redshirt freshman season, Campbell was working at a local car dealership so he could remain in Conway and train with his teammates throughout the summer. He and the other summer workers detailed vehicles, among other odd jobs, at the dealership. At 4:57 that afternoon, just three minutes before quitting time, his newest coworker, first day on the job, was pulling a car into the wash bay while Campbell directed him in front of the vehicle.

The truck suddenly lurched forward, violently shoving Campbell backward through a shelving unit and workbenches and crushing his legs against a cinder block wall.

“I was waving him in, holding my hand to tell him where to stop,” said Campbell, calmly retelling the horrific story he has told so many times. “The truck just jumped forward and the next thing I knew I was pushed through the work benches up to the wall.”

Campbell, bent over the hood and holding on to the wiper blades, did not know what to do next because he was not sure what was left of his lower body. The impact had folded his legs under the front of the truck, bending his knees in the wrong direction.

“I was scared to let go because I thought it may have cut my legs off,” said Campbell. “If I let go, I thought I would just fall down. One of the other guys came in and saw it, an older guy, and he freaked out. I said, ‘Talk to me. What’s wrong?’ He said, ‘I don’t think you want me to do that.’ Of course, that freaked me out even more.”

Campbell said they lifted him off the truck and laid him down in the wash bay, which, as it turns out, actually made matters worse.

“When it pushed me through the work bench, we had all kinds of chemicals on the shelves like acid and stuff. Those blew up and spilled onto the floor. When they sat me down on the floor, it burned the backs of my legs. It actually bleached my skin for a long time,” Campbell recalled.

The ambulance arrived and took Campbell to the emergency room. The damage? Torn anterior cruciate ligaments (ACL) and lateral collateral ligaments (LCL) in both knees, a broken tibia in the left leg, blown out calves in both legs and assorted burns, cuts and bruises.

“It wasn’t a case of ‘Can he play soccer again?’ ” said BTÌìÌÃhead coach Ross Duncan. “It was ‘Will he even be able to walk again?’ That’s pretty sobering for anyone, especially a young person.”

Campbell had two surgeries during his five-day hospital stay in Conway. He went from there to his hometown of Jackson, Miss., under the care of Dr. Jason Craft at Mississippi Sports Medicine. There were four more surgeries during the next eight months, including the insertion of a titanium rod in the left tibia, and months and months of rehabilitation.

Much of the time immediately following the accident is still a little fuzzy to Campbell. “They told me the day of the accident that I was worried about being able to take one of my best friends to the airport the next day,” Campbell said. “He was being deployed to Afghanistan for the Air Force and I was supposed to drive him to the airport. They said I kept asking if I was going to be able to drive him.”

Campbell went from a supremely fit collegiate soccer player, one who was named to the Missouri Valley Conference All-Freshman team in 2012, to a young man who could do very little for himself. He dropped from 160 pounds to 130 in a few short months.

“I was on so much pain medication,” he said. “I had to take pills just to keep pills down. I had no kind of appetite. I didn’t eat during the day, and I slept maybe two or three hours at night at the most. I couldn’t move out of the recliner. I spent all my time there, except for when I was at the doctor or at therapy. It was that way for the rest of the summer.”

And then, for reasons only Campbell knows, he decided to come back to school in the fall, just two months after his accident, unable to walk, drive, cook meals for himself or shower without sitting on the floor.

“Looking back, I think I was kind of naïve. I didn’t really understand how bad it was,” he said. “It probably wasn’t the best decision to come back when I did. But I never even knew at the time that you were allowed to medically withdraw from school. I just thought, ‘Well, I have classes coming up and I’ve already registered so I have to go.’ ”

While he might not have been ready to return physically, he was ready mentally. Campbell earned a 4.0 grade point average in the fall of 2013.

“Honestly, I didn’t have a whole lot else that I could do,” said Campbell. “There was no chance of having any kind of social life because I couldn’t drive or walk around. I really didn’t like having people over to come see me. I just felt like it was embarrassing almost. I didn’t want people to come over and look at me like I was pitiful or for them to feel sorry for me. Yeah, I was recovering from an injury, but I could still do things on my own. There are people who are laid up in a bed, who literally can’t take care of themselves, who are a lot worse off than me. At that point, I didn’t want people to feel that way about me.”

With help from his roommate, fellow soccer player Riley Cauley, Campbell persevered through the physical therapy and rehabilitation with little or no actual soccer playing to sustain him.

“I’d go out to practice when I could, even just to watch or pick up cones or whatever,” said Campbell. “That was good enough.”

Through all the pain and rehab, Campbell never considered not playing soccer again.

“Early on, some of the doctors were almost like they didn’t think I was going to walk normally again, or wasn’t going to walk the same as I did before. But when I first met with Dr. Craft, he was like, ‘We’ll have you playing again, and we’ll get you back to it.’ As soon as he said that, I was ready to go.”

Exactly one year and one week after the accident, Campbell was cleared to resume soccer activities. He was not back to his previous self by any means, but he was on a soccer field again, playing the game he loved with the guys he loved.

Campbell played in five games during the 2014 season, a far cry from his previous season in 2012 when he played in 15 games and was in the starting lineup for 11. His first game on the field was a 2-0 victory over Eastern Illinois.

“I was very, very nervous,” Campbell said. “It had been 18 months since I’d played in our spring game, which is obviously not as big of a deal. It’s not like I thought I was going to go in there and lose the game for us in three minutes, but I was still very nervous. It’s hard to describe. It was nice, but it was just very nerve-wracking. I definitely needed a chance to get all the nerves out before I even thought about trying to play any real minutes.”

Duncan said it was definitely not the best game of his career, but a hugely important one, nonetheless.
“His re-entry was just really a cool moment,” said Duncan. “The guys were excited. I was excited. It probably wasn’t a great moment for him, because he actually played terribly. He can probably laugh at it now, but he wasn’t very happy at the time. But we won the game and it was really cool to get him back in there.”

After the 2014 season ended, Campbell attacked the soccer part of his rehab just as he had the physical rehab the previous year, in preparation for his senior season this fall.

“It was hard for him to make much of an impact last season,” Duncan said. “But after the season when we started working out together as a team again, he really devoted time to it, gaining his strength back and getting back his quickness and athleticism. Now it’s to the point, I’m not worried about how we can get him on the field without having to cover [for him]. I’m just figuring out where Jacob plays and how to use him as a player. He’s not a player returning from injury in my mind. He’s just another guy on the team, which is pretty neat.”

Campbell said it all seems a little surreal to him. “It just feels different playing now,” he said. “It’s hard to make a comparison from then to now. They don’t seem the same to me. I have to play differently now than I did before. I feel like I’m not going to ever be as fast or as athletic, or can jump as high or any of that as I could before. I have to pay attention to the other things that maybe I can use to makeup for the fact that I lack speed or quickness now. It’s more of a mental approach to the game now. I have to think about it more now.”

Duncan can relate. “He’s basically describing what it means to get old!” he said with a laugh. “He’s basically describing me playing soccer now.”

It would seem that Campbell has met all of his goals as far as soccer goals, and there are no specific goals for his senior season except to enjoy the ride.

“I’m definitely excited, but it’s weird too,” Campbell said. “I’m one of the oldest people on the team now, and there are a lot of guys who have never played with me, or at least with the real me. I just want our team to do well. It was never about wanting to come back and play for me. If this were just about me, I wouldn’t be playing soccer now. It’s still dealing with pain and different things like that, having to take medicine to keep the swelling down in my knees, and stuff like that. I just want to be in a position whether I get to start and play every single minute, or just play for 10 minutes in each game, I just want our team to do well.”

Campbell wants the best for his team and for himself as well. “I just remember how fun it was for everybody because we had been so used to losing. I think our team went from 8-9-1, and really one of those ties should have been a win, so it was a .500 season, which a lot of people wouldn’t think is such a great season. But for us, it was. It was fun and everybody enjoyed it. So, that’s all I want: just to get back to that feeling for all the guys. We don’t have to go out and win 16 games. It would be great if we did, but that’s not being realistic. I just want us to get back to a season like that where next year the guys have something to build on and do even better.”

If anyone deserves to have fun on a soccer field again, Jacob Campbell does.

The look of UCA’s campus is about to change dramatically as the university works to create a mixed-use facility on the east side of Donaghey Avenue. The project, known as Donaghey Hall, will be a 67,500-square-foot, four-story building located on the corner of Bruce Street and Donaghey Avenue. The first floor will consist of approximately 15,000 square feet of commercial space available for lease for retail and restaurant tenants. The upper floors are dedicated as a residence hall and will contain 165 beds for sophomore- and junior-level students. The following is a conversation with TJ Johnston, director of special university projects/community affairs, about Donaghey Hall and what’s to come:

Why did BTÌìÌÃwant to build a mixed-use facility?

Our aim is to create a sense of place for both the BTÌìÌÃcommunity and the citizens of Conway. This type of development is one of the ingredients needed in order to recruit and retain the best students, faculty and staff. To put it simply, we’re in the business of place making. Donaghey Hall is our first step.

What kind of businesses will be on the first floor?

We are currently working with several potential tenants for the ground floor. For now, it’s safe to say that the first floor will have a strong retail and restaurant presence. President Courtway is also considering dedicating a portion of the ground floor to what’s commonly referred to as a “makerspace” (a place where students gather to share resources and knowledge, work on projects, network, and connect with each other). In my opinion, this will be the anchor, or most dynamic use, housed in Donaghey Hall.

What is the estimated cost and how will it be funded?

The project cost is just under $16.3 million and will be funded through bond proceeds. The bonds will be repaid through student housing fees and tenant-lease revenues.

What is your long-term vision for Donaghey Avenue?

Ten to 15 years from now, we will look back and recognize Donaghey Hall as the starting point for the creation of the Donaghey District. Donaghey District will be a corridor of development along Donaghey Avenue. It will contain a variety of uses and functions for the campus and community. Imagine a place where you can go grab a bite to eat, then walk next door and see a play at the performing arts center. After that you may shop a little or better yet, “window shop” at what’s being created in the makerspace or art studio. Maybe you just sit for a while and enjoy the live music. Hopefully, the Donaghey District will be a place where everyone can feel welcome and comfortable and part of something unique. It will be a place where the energy alone makes you come back again and again for a variety of reasons.

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