Case Study: Iowa State University Memorial Union

Mark McLain

Assignment #3

Memorial Union

A Way for a University to be victorious, like Iowa State University, is to set several well planned goals that not only support it’s students but also there staff and alumni. Like the Strategic Plan here on campus is to “provide a high quality student life that engages students to learn, grow, and succeed as global citizens and involved alumni.” A certain place on campus that has been doing this is the Iowa State University Memorial Union. This practical and historic landmark on campus was one of the first building built here at Iowa State University. The “MU” as it may be named calls to not only to hold ISU’s plan but it also squires goals on its own, like “nurture common ground, enrich and sustain individuals lives, and remember.” Since the Memorial Union is one of the most visited places on campus it

Front view of the Memorial Union source: Iowa State University????) smooth concrete, and unique architecture. Unlike the rest of the buildings on campus, the Memorial Union provides a common ground most significantly by breaching the gap for the students and there guests by providing a space accessible to both students, alumni, and the community. The “MU” hosts things like Panda Express, Subway or crunchy chicken tenders for the students, staff and the community. Prosperity and growth was done with the Memorial Union’s Book Store can obtain any book from the “Hunger Games” to “Organic Chemistry,” with art supplies on demand and all the Iowa State Cyclone gear your heart can desire. The memorial Union can really provide for all know matter your age. Without the BookStore there, students wouldn't be able to stay in school so the BookStore is helping our academics and individual lives. This is also a prime example of how the Memorial Union works to help the university as a whole, to provide a place of learning. It gives us unlimited number of books to further understand, learn, and