ACCESS AND OPPORTUNITY FROM FRIENDSHIP TO LEADERSHIP It’s a Friday night in September, and the Clayton University Center at Packer Hall is ablaze with light. Students and visitors lounge in the comfortable Great Room where a DJ is kicking off the first set of the night. Good-natured competitors gather around a board game, sharing snacks from the marketplace-style food hall. In the lively Pub, several students and professors debate the documentary film they just saw with a visiting lecturer and alumni guests. Meanwhile, down the hall, another group commandeers one of the modular workspaces for an impromptu club meeting. Outside, people are gathering around the fire pit and on the lawn to reflect and relax. As the hour grows later, undergraduate and graduate students continue to arrive from all corners of campus, attracted by the bustle of activity and opportunity — and the promise of food and friends waiting inside. This is our vision: a continually active, vibrant Clayton University Center that will bring our whole community together. A building restored not only to its original grandeur, but reinvented to foster understanding and collaboration among students and equip them to navigate and lead in today’s diverse society. This new Clayton University Center will help transform the student experience and the culture of our campus. You can help bring this vision to life. 3
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