The Operation

 

By 1991 the college had refurbished its main building on Brusselsetraat 84 and had rented a former nunnery as a dorm a few blocks away. The main building housed offices, classrooms, meeting rooms, labs, studios and a small student cafeteria on the top floor. It had a fully furnished three-bedroom apartment on the third floor.

 

The EIIC dormitory on Capucijnenstraat had double rooms with private baths (with no mirrors) and a couple of large recreation rooms. The dorm was  furnished with IKEA furniture that was assembled by the staff hours before the students arrived. The school also had rented three apartments nearby for visiting faculty.

 

One of the EIIC labs was equipped with computers and another with consumer-grade television cameras and video editing equipment. The computers were purchased from TCC, a company that's still doing business in Maastricht (our salesman/installer was Edward Goessens, now one of the company's directors). A basic studio was soon created  for the television program, but the students in the advanced television production courses would have to finish their studies in Boston. 

 

EIIC became a partner with the University of Limburg library (now the University of Maastricht) and the Emerson books and tapes were deposited there. EIIC students were issued a University of Limburg identification card with all its privileges. John Gilbert, who was UL Library director in 1992-2008, was instrumental in accommodating Emerson's needs and, in fact, managed to enable EIIC (through the UL system) to have e-mail service before the Boston campus did!

 

The University of Limburg Center for European Studies, under Marc Daenen, frequently partnered with us for international conferences, panel discussions, shared guests, etc.

 

EIIC's foreign language curriculum was taught by instructors at WorldNeth, the Dutch School of Foreign Languages/Translation, which was located nearby.