Due to the building’s autonomy from specific academic departments, classroom space is optimized and easily scheduled by students, faculty and staff for meetings and group work when unoccupied. The interior design strategy employs modular furniture anticipating the need for flexibility for varying degrees of group collaboration.

The largest classroom—the active learning hall—is a circle-in-the-round accommodating 360 degrees of projected content, encircling faculty and enabling a pedagogy that encourages democracy, participation, and teamwork between students. Classroom spaces are supported by a Starbucks café, a variety of lounges including the digital marketplace featuring stadium style seating, makers space, a student skills development studio and tutoring spaces, a faculty innovation studio, IT help desk, and hoteling style faculty offices. 

The history of the land grant university and the theme “digitizing tradition”, consistent with the building’s purpose, is conveyed throughout with environmental graphics. The town hall, central commons, and main circulation staircase feature large-scale digital representations of the university’s fight song, ringing of the victory bell, and shooting of the cougar cannon. The graphics encourage active exploration throughout the building.