Construction is currently happening all over Mississippi State University’s campus.  The construction consists of two residence halls, the Center for American Veterans, new classroom and parking garage buildings, the expansion of the Mitchell Memorial Library and the new Baptist Student Union Building.  Construction and expansion of these buildings are expected to be finished later this year.  
Sid Salter, chief communications officer of the office of Public Affairs, said all the construction is being constructed according to the allotted time frames and budgeting.
“The construction, despite some weather issues, has continued to make progress and stay on schedule,” Salter said.  “We are charged with doing our part as a University to make sure that the projects stay within budget.”
Two new residence halls are being built to accommodate the rapidly growing enrollment of students at MSU. 
Salter said  modernization of dormitories is very important to the university.
“Older residence halls outlive their usefulness and need to be replaced and upgraded,” Salter said.  “This is a systematic function that is significant to the university to take old buildings off line and to replace them with newer modern ones so that housing facilities are as competitive as possible.”
The new classroom building that will be located down the hill from the YMCA building on the north side of campus will be primarily a classroom building with unique features that will be very useful to the students who live on the campus’ north side of campus.
These classrooms will contain digital assets of the library and will be staffed by library personal, Salters said.  It will also be a outlet for students as another place to study on campus.
The new Center for American’s Veterans will be a larger building of the one that is currently located on the south side of campus.  This center supports Division of Student Affairs through outreach programs that are designed to provide student support services that are focused of the needs and requirements of today’s military veterans.
The Mitchell Memorial Library construction is focused on expanding the special collection capabilities of the library, specifically the congressional and political research center and the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library.
“This project was driven by enrollment growth and the fact that the library needs additional space to allow scholars to come in and study in the midst of our special collections holdings,” Salter said.
The Baptist Student Union building that is also under construction is underway and making excellent progress according to Salter.  It will be finished in the next several months.  Michael Ball, the Baptist Student Union Director of MSU, has large hopes for this new building.
“The plan for the new building will be to provide a facility to grow our ministries with the expanding enrollment of the MSU campus,” Ball said.  “It is our desire for this facility to be used to help students to know and deepen their walk with God through the study of His Word and to engage in ministries on campus and around the world by sharing the Gospel and making disciples.”
As can be seen, MSU has been dramatically growing in this past year, with the record breaking enrollment of 2015.  Salter said this is a exciting time to be at MSU and the city of Starkville to watch this significant growth occur.  There are several projects that could come into fruition, according to Salter, but will not be disclosed until later in the legislative process of new construction.