Classrooms and corridors in the 61-year-old Seaver Hall have received upgrades that will be “a
huge improvement for our students and faculty,” according to Matt Frank, director of creative
and technology support in Information Technology Services.
The improvements to several classrooms on each of Seaver Hall’s three floors include removing
fixed furniture and lab infrastructure; new carpet, paint, and electrical infrastructure for new
audio-visual equipment; new whiteboards; and acoustical treatment on the ceilings. Some of
the classrooms now have ceiling-mounted projectors, wall-mounted screens and speakers, and
new teaching podiums with built-in computers, Apple TV, and laptop connections. With the
upgrades, 40% of Seaver Hall classrooms now have new furniture and the remaining classrooms
have been upgraded.
Students and faculty will readily notice the changes in the hallways of the three floors, as well.
New ACT ceiling tiles have been installed, along with new signage on 2nd and 3rd floors, new
paint, a bottle filling station on each of the three floors.
Seaver Science Center was a key component to the first phase of then-president Father
Casassa’s Project 70, a decade-long effort to build up the structures, facilities, and academics by
1970 to extend the university’s influence. Funded in large part by Frank Roger Seaver, an oil
company executive and renowned philanthropist, Seaver Science Center opened in 1962. It was
the first bequest to Loyola University from a leading Anglo-American Protestant Angeleno,
according to “Loyola Marymount University: A Centennial History,” by Kevin Starr.