Just three weeks after the university announced it would begin offering certain undergraduate courses in downtown Winston-Salem, administrators are trying to address concerns over a move that some say will split the Reynolda campus in two.
Starting in spring of 2017, some undergraduate chemistry and biology courses would be taught at Innovation Quarter, the research park and future home of the university’s medical school under development downtown, has been met with praise by some and deep skepticism by others.
“The department definitely wanted space,” said Mark Welker, chair of the chemistry department — but not necessarily space downtown.