Updating and expanding WBGU-PBS

Connecting with the community. For 35 years, 130,000 families in northwest and west central Ohio, southeast Michigan, and northeast Indiana have tuned in to WBGU-PBS for high-quality educational programming. With campaign support, WBGU will comply with the Federal Communications Commission mandate to convert from analog to digital television. This, in turn, will enable the station to broadcast four standard definition digital program streams simultaneously, compared to the current one, thereby greatly enhancing the station's ability to serve learners of all ages at the same time. The station also plans to devote a channel to professional development in partnership with the Colleges of Business, Technology, and Health and Human Services. A new distance-learning studio will bring the University's educational offerings to an even wider audience and offer new career advancement opportunities to the entire region.

Construction of the Sebo Athletic Center

Shaping the mind and body. Bowling Green provides more opportunities than most institutions for students to fully develop their intellectual abilities and physical development. BGSU offers 18 varsity sports and is one of only 14 schools in the country with NCAA Division 1 football, hockey, and men's and women's basketball. To maintain our high standards of competition and to better support the large number of athletes we serve, we seek campaign support to build the Sebo Athletic Center at the north end of Perry Stadium. The center will include coaching staff offices and meeting spaces for the football program, expanded weight rooms, training rooms, and team meeting rooms, which will be available for use by all of our scholar-athletes.

The Wolfe Center for the Arts

The Wolfe Center for the Arts will be a collaborative center for all arts across campus--from live theatrical performance to computer animation and puppetry, from opera and musical theater to film. The arts center will embody a sense of energy and creativity for all arts and emphasize the importance of "embracing the arts" in student development.