Faculty
Faculty regularly publish in their academic field. 10% have doctoral degrees; 75% have master's degrees; 14% of the faculty are Nichols graduates.{http://www.nicholsschool.org/aboutus/nicholsataglance} They have an average of 20 years of service. Teachers are involved in student life beyond their classrooms, serving as student advisors, coaches, club advisors and mentors.
Nichols School is located on 30 acres (120,000 m2) in North Buffalo, within walking distance of the Buffalo Zoo, Delaware Park, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The Nichols campus includes seven separate buildings linked by tree-lined sidewalks and an indoor passageway. The campus consolidation project, completed in August 2001, joined the Middle and Upper school divisions. Each division has its own separate academic buildings, and shares dining, athletic, and performing arts facilities.
In 2006, the Nichols School Board of Trustees voted to proceed with a $21.3 million "Nichols Future" Capital Campaign. This campaign consists of three major strategies which will alter the appearance of the campus. Strategy #1 calls for the construction of a new sustainable, 26,000-square-foot (2,400 m2), $10.3 million math/science/technology center. Construction began in September 2008 and officially opened for classes on January 4, 2010. Strategy #2 is a commitment to increase the school's endowment fund by an expected $5 million. Under Strategy #3, Nichols reconfigured and increased its current athletic fields, as well as created an outer-ring traffic/parking system. During the Summer of 2008 Strategy #3 will near completion as in October 2007, Nichols completed the construction of two new synthetic turf playing fields. In early April 2008, construction crews began altering the parking/traffic flow of the campus to create the new outer-ring system. This construction was finished in time for the 2008-2009 school year.
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