The Daily Texas’s Daniela Capistran reports on ULI Austin’s March Breakfast:

Interim President Jim Davis intends for the University to evolve in the city’s developmental scene, he said at a breakfast event with the Urban Land Institute March 26.

Davis said one of the biggest challenges the University faces is its deferred maintenance due to approximately half of the buildings on campus being about 50 years old.  Davis said the University brought in a new landscape architect to preserve the campus grounds. Nursing freshman Hope Luensmann said she would want the University’s classrooms to be modernized.

“Sometimes you don’t really have a desk in a lot of the classrooms and taking exams, having a desk, or someplace that I can write stuff down, would have been really beneficial to me because taking a test with no arm space (is) one of the downsides of having older buildings,”  Luensmann said.

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