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Walking through the brightly lit space, you can’t tell the Learning Commons has only been open to students for about a year. Students have made it part of their everyday lives, and alumni who have visited the space are impressed.��

It was the first new building on campus in 20 years. Construction on the 105,000-square-foot state-of-the-art Learning Commons began Feb. 5, 2020. The University had a soft opening in July 2022, then Kettering hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the $63 million facility in September. The building includes a dozen d.spaces; a 200-seat auditorium; a 15,000-square-foot Maker Space; 1,600 square feet of rooftop space with hammocks and additional seating; an art gallery; and a meditation room. Students use the space for pretty much everything: studying, eating, having club meetings, raising money for philanthropies—the list goes on.��

For Katee Callicutt ’27, it has a space for anyone, regardless of their work.

“It’s just a really fun space,” she said. “It’s not like a typical college where you sit at a lunch table and do work. You can go to different environments. If you get bored of one, you can just go to another.”