1. A dedicated preaching studio, with audio and video equipment. provides the environment for students to grow in the art and skills of preaching and public speaking.

Offices for administrators and faculty members will make them more readily accessible to students for individual consultation and assistance.

Four new endowed chairs will foster recruitment and retention of outstanding teachers who will educate and form Priests,Religious, and lay Ministers for the church in the modern world.

2. A Lecture hall provides for the occasion of holding public lectures and inviting students,scholars, and visitors from outside the school.

Modern classrooms provide a dynamic environment for members of the pontificial faculty to teach and interact with students.

3. Spacious reading, study areas and state-ofthe-art technology will put the resources of a highly regarded library at the fingertips of Dominican Friars, students of other religious orders, dioceses, the Catholic University of America and Washington region Theological Schools.

Computer technology will enable on-line reasearch and access to other library collections around the country.

4. Modern compact shelving makes the entire book collection available to students and faculty for their research, study and course preparation.

Rare books will be housed in a proper climate-controlled room that will be readily accessible to philosophical and theological scholars from around the world.