Key Opportunities
Community
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Provide strategically located amenities with evening hours and adjacent collaboration space for students, staff and faculty to build stronger relationships on campus.
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Shift parking policies and provide other quality of life benefits to encourage longer campus stays and stronger connection to the institution and campus community.
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Concentrate off-campus academic and administrative functions on campus to increase interaction and create a stronger sense of belonging.
Governance and Identity
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Strategically align departments and space types to provide intention to campus buildings and reduce inefficiencies from space disaggregation.
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Schedule office and non-specialized lab space centrally to enable more workplace efficiencies and alleviate pressures on classroom capacity.
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Consider a shared governance model with Cascadia to encourage shared scheduling of key spaces, alleviate the pressure on the current inventory and reduce spatial duplication between institutions.
Instruction
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Right-size large underutilized rooms and consider more Friday and/or Saturday classes to better match class sizes and smooth out peaks in classroom utilization.
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Upgrade technology equally across the classroom inventory to support in-person, asynchronous and hybrid teaching modalities, reducing faculty stress and improving access for all students.
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Recapture underutilized space, explore flexible solutions and shared use to increase available options for students seeking to take classes online and collaborate while on campus.
Workplace
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Realign faculty and staff office policies according to on-campus utilization to free up space for other needs, including group study, online class participation, and faculty-staff collaboration.
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Schedule office space centrally to enable more workplace efficiencies and alleviate pressures on classroom capacity.
![](https://www.uwb.edu/planning-administration/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2024/03/Instruction-9.jpg)
Recapture underutilized space, explore flexible solutions and shared use to increase available options for students seeking to take classes online and collaborate while on campus.