In the process of achieving LEED Gold, Sangren Hall is Western Michigan University’s (WMU) new $60 million facility and the result of years of campaigning, fundraising and planning. Replacing the original Sangren Hall completed in 1964, the new Sangren hall is situated on more than eight acres in the center of campus. It houses the College of Education and Human Development, and the Department of Sociology. With 30 percent more seats than the former facility, the new building is expected to carry on the original Sangren Hall’s legacy as one of the university’s most heavily utilized classroom buildings. In fact, the university predicts that nearly every student who graduates with a four-year degree from WMU will have had at least one class in this building.

Inside the 230,000-square-foot, four-story facility are 50 classrooms with 2,435 instructional seats, two 200-seat auditoriums, an education library, a grants and research center, and an office and clinical space for programs including the Center for Counseling and Psychological Services, the Kercher Center for Social Research, and the Dorothy J. McGinnis Reading Center and Clinic.