Statement explaining the Space Committee Questionnaire to the Faculty Senate on December 2, 2014
The useable square footage of the campus will increase significantly with the Bureau of Geology moving into its new building in the Spring of 2015, and with the addition of the new Chemistry Building, planned for move-in during 2016. The Space Utilization Committee has been tasked with formulating a plan to distribute this space to academic and non-academic departments on campus. A principal goal of the Space Committee is to try to consolidate, or defragment, departmental space.
We would like to identify faster-growing departments, with the goal of trying to provide these departments with sufficient space to meet their growing faculty and student populations. As it stands, we are also short on laboratory space for recently hired professors. To work towards this goal, we plan to meet individually with all departments to assess their existing space, and future space needs. We need your departmental input to help with these issues. A Space Usage Questionnaire (separate from the Space Survey made for Finance) was emailed to all departments on Friday, November 21, by Juliann Ulibarri from the Chemistry Department, and copies are available in the back as well. Your response to this by December 10 will be your department's primary initial input to our committee for review and recommendations to the Administration; therefore your timely response will be much appreciated as all departments need to be considered as a whole.
David Westpfahl, On Behalf of the Space Utilization Committee
Paul Arendt, David Burleigh, Alex Garcia, Sara Grijalva, Miguel Hidalgo, Celeste Herrera, Juliann Ulibarri (Administrator), David Westpfahl, Oliver Wingenter (Chair)