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New Building More Than an Upgrade from Dulany Hall

Nursing students and staff who work and attend classes in the Health-Sciences building say the space and facilities are a major improvement over the old nursing rooms in the basement of Dulany Hall.

“We are moving from a space of around 5,000 square-feet to a 36,000 square-foot building. Underneath Dulany Hall we had cockroaches, flies and leaking ceilings. It wasn’t a good learning space.”
-Dr. Robert Contino, head of nursing

“The building is super nice,” said junior Allie Montgomery. “We actually have more than one classroom now. With so much more room to work and learn, it has definitely made for a more suitable learning environment.”

Sophomore nursing major Pat Aruta hopes that Wesley will hire more nursing faculty.

“With the new big building, Wesley could use some more professors in the nursing program,” he said.

Dr. Robert Contino, head of the nursing program, said he was thrilled by the new space.

“We are moving from a space of around 5,000 square-feet to a 36,000 square-foot building,” he said. “Underneath Dulany Hall we had cockroaches, flies and leaking ceilings. It wasn’t a good learning space.”

Despite the excitement of learning in a new building, students and staff have dealt with many technology glitches with the Internet and phone service since the building opened in January.

“I was on my Mac today and I couldn’t access the Internet, it was so slow,” Aruta said. “It’s definitely been an issue.”

Montgomery agreed.

“All the staff are doing what they can but it needs to be fixed soon,” she said. “It is stressful when we can’t do the work we need to when we have the time to because of our already busy schedule.”

Administration officials said the building doesn’t yet have the same connectivity and network speed as other Wesley facilities.

“It is a little surprising that it’s been this big of a problem,” said Ron Reck, Vice President of Administration and Finance. “We have been in contact with IT and consulters trying to figure out the where the problem is.”

Reck said that meetings are still going on and they hope to fix the problems soon.

“We are having ongoing meets with IT and with the people at Cisco (which provides the technology),” Reck said. “On March 6, there is a consultant coming to the building to try and fix the connections.”