BGSU Firelands is a

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. BGSU Firelands is located near the shores of

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, about east of

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. It is a separate college of the Bowling Green State University system. BGSU Firelands has been a regional campus of BGSU since 1968, when the first building (now Foundation Hall) at the Huron location was opened. Before that, classes were held in

Sandusky High School Sandusky High School (SHS) is a secondary school in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. It is the only high school in the Sandusky City School District, and one of two high schools in the city of Sandusky; the other high school is St Mary Central Cat ...

until this building was completed. The campus practices

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. BGSU Firelands had over 2,100 students enrolled as of fall 2019, 40% of whom were dual-enrolled high school students.

Campus

Facilities

BGSU Firelands has four buildings: Foundation Hall, George Mylander Hall (formerly the West Building), the North Building and the newest addition completed in 2003, The Cedar Point Center. The Cedar Point Center hosts an array of cutting edge educational technology tools for teaching or conferencing onsite and/or from a distance, via satellite and broadband communications modes. The Allied Health construction project was constructed during the 2014-15 academic year and includes the addition of more laboratory spaces for the health field degree programs offered at BGSU Firelands. This addition opened in the spring of 2016. Some off-site classes are held in Sandusky, Norwalk, and

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McBride Arboretum

BGSU Firelands is also the site of the McBride

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(named in honor of Dr. James McBride, the college's first dean), a natural spot that was carefully thought out, designed and implemented to showcase the plants, trees and grasses that are a part of the natural setting of the Firelands region. The latest addition to the Arboretum was donated by Deering family of Erie County and is an all-weather deck built along one of the many small bodies of water in the Arboretum, which is long, on which students and the public can enjoy nature. The Arboretum is managed for BGSU Firelands by

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