PHOENIX
Arizona State University is one of the nation’s biggest. Now, school officials want to show it can be among the best.
The university Monday will break ground on a $120 million complex that’s exclusively for honors students.
It’s the only one of its kind in the nation at a public university, ASU officials said.
Once it’s completed in 2009, Barrett, the Honors College will have double the on-campus housing for honors students and its own dining facilities, computer lab and fitness center.
The school wants the honors college as an incentive for more top students to live on campus all four years.
“Our model is a model of lots of little colleges within a big university,” ASU President Michael Crow said.
