12 UConn School of Business
OUR
BUSINESS
CAMPUSES
Storrs, Stamford, Hartford,
Waterbury and Torrington*
STORRS
THE MAIN CAMPUS
Since its humble beginnings in a campus dormitory basement,
the UConn School of Business has grown exponentially. e
enormous School of Business facility, in the center of the state's
flagship university campus, now is a fitting reflection of the exper-
tise that the School offers.
But it wasn't always that way.
In 1949, the School moved from Hall Dormitory into Storrs
Hall, currently the oldest brick building on campus. In 1960, the
School moved again into a newly-built facility that would mostly
satisfy the needs for the next several decades. But like every other
home it occupied, the demand for business courses soon made the
facility too small.
e 1999 groundbreaking for the current School of Business
building in Storrs was a sign of good things to come. At last, busi-
ness students would have ample space in one central location.
Students and professors had been meeting in what building
committee chair Jack Veiga — now a distinguished professor
emeritus in management — called a "no-frills" early-1960s build-
ing with cement-block walls.
"We would bring people in — executives — to speak in the
classrooms," Veiga recalls. "It was embarrassing; there was an old
hydraulic elevator that would shake when you got inside it." School
officials would try to avoid the old structure and meet elsewhere
on campus, especially while trying to recruit new faculty, he said.
The present home of the School of Business
at 2100 Hillside Road on the main campus in
Storrs. Inset: The former business school at
368 Fairfield Road in the 1960s.
*As this publication was going to press, UConn's Board of
Trustees was scheduled to vote on the closure of the Torrington
campus, citing consistently declining enrollment.
