1993

多年的合并和不确定性， 开始于 飓风艾格尼丝 外部网站，一直持续到现在结束的第六个十年.

While the inflation which peaked around 1980 slowly diminished, problems with a diminishing applicant pool and competition from government-supported institutions brought new 对推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜的挑战. 事实上，通货膨胀的结束是一件喜忧参半的事.

Energy costs continued to rise more than the cost of living, as did the costs of staying abreast of technological change and the efforts to raise the level of salaries which 在通货膨胀时期被侵蚀了吗. 同时，政府的支持， which had been taken for granted in the 1960s and had significantly diminished in 1970年代，在新的十年里进一步下降. 虽然入学人数有所增长 in the late 1980s, the 1990s began with an enrollment decline.

With financial limitations and fluctuating student numbers the consolidation phase of campus development which had begun after 飓风艾格尼丝 continued. 然而，现在校园的变化集中在新的问题上. 在快速增长的岁月里， the College had been preoccupied with the provision of adequate facilities. 现在, the 增长 period had ended, Wilkes had to concern itself more with the quality of 推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜. In the early years, faculty and students had taken a sort of perverse pride in the 校园粗糙的边缘. In a buyer's market where every factor had to be considered in trying to gain an advantage over the competition, the pioneer atmosphere could 不再被视为一种优势.

This was true about the basic amenities of student life. 在这十年中只有一个 新大楼建起来了。. The 推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜体育馆 had been an economical solution to 1950年开业时，这是一个大问题. 到了20世纪80年代，它早就变成了 不充分的. It was demolished and a new multi-purpose building, the Marts Center, 是建在工地上的吗. Incorporating meeting facilities, a large student recreation center, and a gymnasium roughly twice the size of its predecessor, it opened in February 1989.

While technically not a new building, an athletic field house was built at Ralston 爱德华兹维尔的田野.  The old mine buildings which had formerly been used for locker rooms and athletic 设施也许是校园里最粗糙的边缘. 因为这些建筑本身 were virtually indestructible and excessively unattractive, they vanished into the infrastructure of a new field house which was built around them. 结果是 建筑杰作.

A maturing campus also had to consider other aspects of 图像与功能. Function included restructuring the College into three schools, and approval of university status by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜 1989年12月成为推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜.

While the southwest quadrant had been fertile soil in which to plant a college, the opportunistic 增长 pattern had left Wilkes without a clear image. 校园计划 began emerging in the 1960s, Wilkes was distracted from their completion. 事实并非如此 until the post-flood period that the campus began to take on more of the character of a college campus and less of a college coexisting in an aging urban residential 社区.

During the early part of the decade, campus changes continued along the pattern of 1970年代. Following the sale of Parrish Hall, the block between Northampton and South streets had become the undisputed center of the instructional campus. 七个中的两个 private homes remaining in this block were acquired and removed in 1984 and 1985. The Fenner home was donated with continuing right of occupancy by the owner. 第一个 step towards providing a unique identity for the block came with the dedication of 1987年10月的伯恩斯钟楼.

There was greater activity in the peripheral campus areas. The residence hall row on South River above Northampton was completed with the acquisition 1989年7月在里夫金大厅. Wilkes property now runs continuously along the Susquehanna River from Sterling Hall on the north to Doane Hall on the south. 另外两栋楼 是在南街下面的富兰克林街买的吗. 这是马克斯·罗斯中心 (1984) and the apartment building which would become Fortinsky Hall (1987). Fortinsky became the home of the School of Business, Society and Public Policy and Roth became 行政大楼. Together with Schiowitz Hall, which houses the Department of Nursing, these formed an enclave in a block otherwise given over to student housing 和服务.

At the end of the decade the new University began a new construction program concentrating on a more functional campus rather than on unplanned 增长. The decision to establish a Pharmacy program required facilities changes which 已经演变成校园的重新设计. 该计划提供了一名新教员 building on Franklin Street between Capin and Sturdevant halls. 一条900英尺长的绿道 running through the center of the block became the symbolic center of the campus.

The changes began with renewed purchases in 1992 and 1993. 明罗斯，列支敦士登， 买下了富兰克林街的贝尔物业. Minrose已经重新装修过了 as a new student services building, including the finance and registrar's offices. 列支敦士登和贝尔大楼将被拆除.

On the central campus, the home at 67 South Street was acquired in 1993 and, through 艾伦。P. 科比,小.，翻新为Allan P. 柯比中心 自由企业和企业家精神. 在收购康林厄姆57年后 and Chase halls, only two private buildings remain in the original block.

The changes will challenge the ingenuity of the University. 河上的豪宅 and below the main campus remain as a reminder of the anthracite era. 改造 of buildings such as the Kirby Center and Capin Hall, and the continued restoration of Kirby Hall, point to the continued effort of Wilkes to reconcile the inherent conflicts 在历史与功能之间.