A new building unveiled at Tacoma Community College last month has helped bring students and faculty together.
The result of $39.3 million set aside from the state Legislature in 2023, the new Center for Innovative Learning and Engagement, or CILE, houses faculty and classes for two of the school’s five “pathways,” or overarching areas of study: education, social and behavioral sciences, and creative arts, literature and communication.
The new space holds an anthropology lab, outdoor classroom, study rooms, a digital music lab and more. Faculty and administrators at the school said, in the roughly one month since it opened, they’ve seen how the building has given way to more collaboration between students and faculty…