Science majors at California State University Stanislaus will be getting a new science building, courtesy of Prop. 47 funds - but they will have to wait until January 2007 to move in.

On Wednesday, the CSU Board of Trustees approved the schematic plans for the new facility, which will replace the existing science building that was built in 1972.

The current facility will undergo extensive seismic retrofitting and will become another classroom building once the new 115,000-square-foot facility is complete.

All CSUS students are required to take a science class as part of their studies and the current facilities are overburdened. The university’s enrollment doubled in the 1990s, and enrollment is expected to increase through 2006. Projections indicate science enrollment will double to nearly 1,100 full-time students over the next five years.

Construction is scheduled to begin July of next year and will cost approximately $55 million.