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The Anthropology Department currently occupies a four-story building, Farrell Hall along with Sociology. The Sociology Department occupies the fourth floor, and shares classroom space on approximately half of the second and third floors. Anthropology uses the West end of the first floor for a large teaching lab, and museum storerooms and work space. One other lab space is being used by the NAGPRA specialist as combined office, student-research, and meeting place for visiting tribal members.

The Anthropology Museum has been through several iterations in the past 20 years. Its current facilities include two curation rooms, a workroom, and an office now shared by the curator and several graduate students. This is very crowded work space, and right now one of the archaeologists who is on research leave is using the exhibit preparation room as work space for analyzing a lithics collection, and a second project, curation of an incoming fossil collection is on hold. A third project, collaborative evaluation of a Native American collection that has been offered to CWU Anthropology Museum and Kittitas County Historical Society is on hold for lack of space. There is a total lack of formal display space. The increasingly extensive Wenas Mammoth excavation is also in need of storage and curation space. The curation rooms do not have climate control or cabinetry to federal curation standards. The display place that currently exists is limited to several old display cases spread throughout the hallways of Farrell Hall. The museum will see a significant upgrade with the planned move to Dean Hall.

The second floor contains 5 Archaeology labs, and a four-station computer lab and small visual anthropology editing space. Two labs are devoted to a NAGPRA Repository and NAGPRA work area. The repository space does not comply with federal standards, especially for security.

The current archaeology projects far exceed the space limitations of the remaining 3 labs. The third floor houses faculty offices, administration work space, reading room, and limited TA/RA work space. There is insufficient office space for Resource Management students working on research projects with faculty and for T.A.’s. Some projects are on hold while we try to figure out where they can take place.

The Department of Art is located in Randall Hall, a two-story 82,000 square foot building that was designed and built for visual art instruction in 1969.  Within the confines of the building are large specialized facilities for our various studio arts disciplines. Included are two large well-lit painting studios, two large well-lit drawing studios, a classroom for printmaking and papermaking, and classrooms dedicated to the instruction of art education, graphic design and basic design.  In addition, the building houses a comprehensive ceramics facility, including hand-building, wheel-throwing, glazing, clay mixing and kiln areas, a well appointed jewelry and metalsmithing studio including, fabrication and forming, casting, electroforming, and finishing areas, a large photography studio including, black and white and color labs and an alternate processes laboratory, a sizable sculpture facility complete with fabrication and foundry areas, and a well-equipped wood design facility. During the summer-fall of 2003, the art building underwent a $5,000,000 health and safety upgrade, making it one of the safest facilities in the Pacific Northwest.  Randall Hall also houses the Sarah Spurgeon Gallery. With assistance from the Associated Students of CWU, the gallery maintains an active exhibition schedule featuring contemporary art exhibits throughout the year that are attend by members of the campus and local communities. The gallery also features graduate thesis exhibitions and hosts other interdisciplinary events.

Kittitas County granted CWU a 75-year lease for the current location and, in anticipation of CWU erecting a permanent facility, the agreement included the adjacent 4.65 acre parcel located on the airport apron for that purpose.

From 1993 to 2007 the CWU Flight Technology Program was housed in a modular building that was originally intended to be a “temporary” facility. In 1997 a single-wide portable was added to the south section of the existing four-wide unit increasing the total area to 5,544 square feet. That building suffered from differential settlement of it’s foundation, a leaky roof, squeaky floors, periodic flooding, inadequate insulation and soundproofing, temperature control issues, rodent infestations, perennial invasions of wasps (a student was stung in class), sporadic plumbing problems with sewage backups and odors, and mold contamination such that faculty members had to be relocated due to allergic reactions. The building was completely inadequate and embarrassing; several prospective students and parents citied the run-down facility as the reason they did not apply to CWU for an aviation degree.

The department was displaced fall 2007 when that building was deemed uninhabitable. The department, which currently has about 200 students, is temporarily "camped" in a row of small offices along a hallway in Michaelson hall. Adjunct faculty has no offices and must hold office hours in the hallway or at the cafeteria. Students have no study area or lab, and there is no room for records storage. The department will move to a more suitable interim space for the next 2-3 years, and future department offices are slated to be in the renovated Hogue Technology building.

The chemistry department is housed in a 10-year old building with excellent facilities.  As the department grows, space is becoming a larger and larger issue.

Scholarly work in chemistry requires dedicated laboratory space.  With the renovation of two Science Building spaces into research labs, so far the department has been able to support its faculty in accomplishing their scholarly work.  The department expects four tenure-track faculty to begin Fall 2008.  As new faculty join the department, research laboratory space has become a pressing issue.  Depending on the area of expertise of these faculty, more renovations may be required. Office space is also at a premium for faculty and staff.  The department no longer has space to assign offices to all graduate students.  It is imperative that graduate students be given a desk when they are working on their thesis.

Technological resources for the Communication Department have been met in some areas, and not in others. The university student newspaper is produced in the department and provides technological resources for the journalism program. Due to the efforts of the Film & Video and Broadcast Journalism professors, the immediate technological resource needs have been met but that area now requires funding for maintenance and upgrades on a regular basis. Communication Studies requires portable video recording equipment. The public relations major requires a room dedicated as a technology laboratory to continue the major with utilizing technology, as well as collaborate with other institutions on student projects.  

The department has begun working with Facilities Planning to develop a program for department needs in the Samuelson Union  remodelling project.  This is an exciting opportunity for the department to move into space that meets the departments growing needs.

A. Describe facilities available to department

1. Room Assignment – Michaelsen hall has been used for delivering FCS programs for 35 years. The large classrooms can easily be arranged to facilitate a variety of learning activities and provide adequate storage for curriculum materials. With the exception of Recreation/Tourism, all of the department programs have an adequate facility space. The FCS department has recommended to CWU administration that the Recreation/Tourism be reassigned from Michaelsen 204 to Michaelsen 108. The room transfer decision is pending.

2. Faculty Offices – With the exception of Recreation/Tourism, each tenure track faculty member has a private office located in close proximity to their primary classroom. Recreation/Tourism faculty offices are located on the first floor and their classroom is on the second floor. The Recreation/Tourism office location decision is pending.

3. Department Office – The department office is conveniently located on the first floor, near the main entrance. The office is easily accessible to staff and students and adequate in size for conducting department business.

4. Conference Rooms – The department has a large conference room and a small conference room that are popular spaces for department and extended campus meetings.

5. Staff Lounge – The department has a staff lounge that was recently refurnished by the department chair and service learning students.

6. Climate Control – The department heating system is outdated. Heating units have caught on fire. Heating is inconsistent and extremely noisy in some classrooms and offices. Some classrooms and conference rooms are so cold that participants using the space keep their coats on. Michaelsen Hall has no air conditioning. During the hot summer session staff and students have physically suffered from over exposure to excessive heat.

7. Storage Cabinets – The department has adequate storage space but the 35 year old sliding cupboard doors are in various stages of usability. The department has requested new cabinet doors to replace the sliders (request is pending).

Currently available within the department are a GIS (Geographic Information Systems) computer laboratory, a small physical geography laboratory, a handful of graduate assistant offices, and an extensive map and air photo collection. Other than the so-called “Banana Room” shared with other departments in the building, the department has no meeting space or seminar room to call its own. The faculty office hallway for the department is crammed with the large cabinets that hold our map and air photo collection, and the miniscule amount of that hallway devoted to our common work area / mailroom / fax-and-copier space is utterly unacceptable for an academic department this size.

The GIS (Geographic Information Systems) room holds a 21-seat computer lab, with an adjacent overflow laboratory housing an additional 7 work stations, located centrally on the first floor of Lind Hall. The physical geography laboratory is limited to a small analysis space at the back of a second-floor classroom and a small storage room. The analysis space consists of a sink, countertops, two soil drying ovens, and a storage locker. This is clearly inadequate for physical geography, but should be much improved by the proposed move to Dean Hall, which will include several physical and human geography research labs, as well as several teaching labs. In addition, three storage lockers are used to store field research and field camp equipment.

To meet the challenge of shrinking work space, the university has granted us access to a corridor suite of offices in another building, Black Hall, where several faculty maintain offices along with dozens of our graduate students, typically assigned three to an office. Ultimately, we look forward to our relocation in a remodeled Dean Hall, the old chemistry and biology building that has perched empty and vacant for nearly a decade.

The Department of Geological Sciences is currently housed in at least four buildings (Lind, Hebeler, Boullion, Old Heat Plant) and a storage shed (but note that we do not yet have people in the storage shed). Program fragmentation is perhaps the single most critical problem the department faces (and has faced for nearly a decade). The department has complex labs (computer or chemical) labs in both Hebeler and Lind, and installation and upkeep have been ongoing challenges because both buildings are old and do not have modern infrastructure (e.g., air conditioning to keep instruments and computers cool, adequate air handling systems, etc.). With the help of facilities and a great deal of determination, department members have overcome these obstacles, but as the department grows and the need for complex, modern laboratory facilities also grows, the physical facilities will become an increasingly serious barrier to fulfilling the mission. Furnishings are adequate, but mostly scavenged. There is no systematic plan to address the need to furnish offices for new faculty, nor replace aging or worn desks, file cabinets, etc. Our ability to deliver innovative curricula would be improved if classroom furnishings were modernized. For example, the larger classrooms in Lind Hall have chairs that are bolted to the floor. For instructors who wish to have students work in groups (e.g., move their chairs into a circle), or take part in active demonstrations in the classroom (e.g., the earthquake wave), fixed furnishings present barriers.

The IET department does not have an adaquate building to call home.  There is not enough space, ie classrooms, labs, large enough storage, office, and type of facilities.  The existing building does not have prpoer ventilation. The university is work to correct these issues:

Pre-design for new technology building was completed in July 2004
Three million dollars in design funds were received in 2007-09 biannual budget to begin the design process of constructing a new or remodeled Hogue Technology Building.  
The Hogue Technology building construction project is the number one priority major project in the next capital funding request.

Our BAS-ITAM program is offered via Interactive TV to three sites - Des Moines, Lynnwood, and Everett Station. The number of DE equipped classroms is lacking, making us schedule more and more courses on Friday afternoons and Saturdays so that classrooms are available. Because some religious groups have Saturday as their day of worship, we are excluding some diverse groups from participating in the program.

The BS-ITAM is housed in Shaw/Smyser and is adequate at this time for our needs. Every few years rumors abound that we might be moved out of the building to make more room for the College of Business. Because six computer labs are housed in this building, remaining in Shaw/Smyser is a priority for us - to better serve our students in the computer labs.

The Department of Management faculty, staff and students enjoy beautiful facilities at all program locations. Significant improvements of the physical facilities have been completed at all CB program sites in recent years.

Shaw-Smyser Hall. An extensive remodeling of Shaw-Smyser Hall, home of the College of Business at the main campus in Ellensburg, was completed in 1994. The facility houses the Departments of Accounting, Economics, Finance & OSC, and Management and the Office of the Dean. The present configuration includes 13 classrooms and 6 computer labs. Of the 13 classrooms, all are fully “technology enabled.” The seating capacity of the classrooms ranges from 25 to 109.

Snoqualmie Hall. CWU-Lynnwood, moved into a newly completed 51,000 square-foot building on the Edmonds Community college campus in 2003. The design and construction of Snoqualmie Hall included state of the art instructional technology. Each classroom in the new facility is equipped with the latest in computer-controlled screens, lights and LCD projectors. This technology was not available at previous locations. CWU-Lynnwood students can pursue bachelor’s degrees in Business Administration and Accounting, after completing two-year transfer degrees. Other business-related programs offered include the MPA, a certificate in supply chain management, and minors in Business Administration and Economics. CWU-Lynnwood had previously been located in six different temporary locations over the last 30 years.

Higher Education Center. CWU-Des Moines has replaced CWU-SeaTac. This facility is co-located on the Highline Community college campus. This facility was fully occupied in Spring Quarter 2005 and includes the latest instructional technologies. The College of Business accounts for approximately 40% of the annual average full-time equivalent students (FTES) served by the university at CWU-Des Moines. With the exception of the MPA, the program offerings are identical to those at CWU-Lynnwood.

Space concerns have reached a critical point in the department. Currently faculty members in our department are spread across three different buildings (Bouillon, Hertz, and Black) on campus. The quality of the faculty offices are highly variable (we have a full professor in an old music practice room in Hertz and a full time non-tenure-stream faculty member in a large new office in Black). This physical separation also makes it difficult to colocate resources and we lack adequate storage space for files and portable technology. Total square footage allocated for the Math Department is 4382 square feet, however, to support a department of this size, approximately 7038 square feet are needed.

Classroom space is also becoming increasingly difficult to find. Not only are there not enough physical rooms available, but many rooms are being refitted with technology that is not the most conducive to the teaching habits of our instructors (many of whom strongly prefer chalk over markers).

The current facilities do not accommodate the current level of pedagogical courses, activity courses, university athletics, club sports, and recreation and intramurals. 

There are insufficient storage facilities to house the equipment for the programs mentioned above. 

The remodeling of the Nicholson Pavilion to accommodate the Athletic Department will allow for appropriate office space for both departments. To accommodate pedagogical needs of the Health/Fitness program and the student activity program additional gymnasium space is required. The remodeling of the Nicholson Pavilion and the adjoining Field house should accommodate this need.

Background
The Physics Department currently occupies a three-story building, Lind Hall, along with the Geography and Geology Departments. The Geography Department is scheduled to move into Dean Hall sometime during the 2008 Fall quarter. The Physics Department currently occupies a little more than half of the second floor and shares lecture classroom space. These include a 25 student classroom and a 75 student lecture hall. The Physics Department has six faculty offices in Lind Hall (that includes the main Department office that houses the secretary and Department Chair). One physics faculty member does not have an office in Lind Hall. Regarding research space, there is a laser research lab, an acoustics research lab and a computational research lab. Regarding instructional laboratory space there is a room for the introductory laboratories (that can house 18 students), an Optics lab, a Holography lab, an electronics lab and a modern physics lab. Although the upper-division labs have names/courses associated with them, all are multi-purpose and also serve as student research labs and one faculty research lab. Most of the rooms are also relatively small. The Department also has a resource room, a computer lab for its students and faculty (about five computers), and a rooftop observatory. There are two storage rooms (one for physics and one for astronomy) and one equipment demonstration room. The Department also has an office/workroom for its technician.

What is needed?
1. An integrated classroom/laboratory that can seat up to 50 students. Furniture should be movable (with sufficient aisle space) to accommodate inquiry-based activities. Computer access in the room should also be provided. Students in these classes would benefit from small group activities such as desktop experiments, collaborative problem solving and problem-based learning, methods proven by the physics education community (via refereed manuscripts) to be the best way of teaching physics.
2. A computer-teaching space, with room for up to 30 computer stations.
3. Research laboratory and office space for an additional faculty member.
4. Permanent piers for mounting telescopes on the roof of Lind Hall with appropriate roof-top shelter.
5. Addition of permanent mounting/storage facility for telescopes on the roof of Lind Hall.
6. A planetarium.
7. Access to a large lecture hall (auditorium seating for between 150 to 200 students) for use with the Department’s Outreach programs. Although there are a few lecture halls of this size on campus, it is impractical to transport scientific equipment between buildings, particularly during inclement weather. In addition, the layout of these rooms is less than desireable.
8. An office for the physics-education faculty member.

Along with the new requests listed above, there needs to be a significant investment in the existing infrastructure. Some minor repairs to the Observatory are necessary; these include mechanically refurbishing the dome mechanism and telescope drive as well as outfit and wire a “warm room”. Along with limited climate control in Lind Hall, there has been some compromise to the structural integrity of the building (currently housed by Geology).

The classroom facilities with technology appear to be adequate, for the most part. Indeed, at the beginning of the review period, we had no (or very few) smart classrooms at all, and now there are a number of them in many medium-sized and large rooms. However, in the Psychology Building, our home building, there are still limitations given that there are only limited rooms of certain size (especially large ones) with such capabilities; and therefore, being the very kind of rooms which people might want to use said technology, competition for use of these rooms is often fierce. Faculty who put in specific requests for such technology thus end up being sent all across campus, which is sometimes difficult due to scheduling (getting from one class to another in time).

However, on another note, we would argue our physical facilities in terms of office and storage space within the Psychology Building are limited.  Our previous chair was successful in territorial aggrandizement as he put it, by gaining an extra office which we made into a faculty/student lounge and meeting room.  But we were forced to convert one of our offices that was a student mini-computer lab to a faculty office when we added Cameron Otopalik, as a FTNTT.  We also have no storage closets, and our outer office shares copier and other space with Law and Justice to some extent. If we add any faculty, or want to alter our administrative procedures, we need more office space.

The Theatre Arts Department and Central Theatre Ensemble operate in McConnell Hall, which includes: a 750-seat proscenium theatre (McConnell Auditorium); a 240- to 300-seat adaptable black box theatre (Milo Smith Tower Theatre); a 50-seat black box rehearsal and performance space (Studio 119); two lecture classrooms; scene, costume, lighting, and publicity shops; a puppet studio; a student workroom with computers dedicated to design projects; dressing rooms; a green room; a conference room and faculty and staff offices. Additionally set, properties, costume storage and classroom space are provided as needed by the University in adjacent sites on campus.
	
Fueled by Health and Safety initiatives, the University funded a $2.1 million facility renovation of McConnell Hall, completed in September 2003, which focused primarily on safety and technology improvements for McConnell Auditorium and the shops. Among the improvements were: a new fly system, stage floor, electrics and lighting grids in the main auditorium; a sawdust collection system in the scene shop; and a new costume crafts area, including a dye facility and ventilation in the dressing, makeup and costume areas.

Although the facilities are some of the finest in the State they are rapidly growing inadequate for the expanding number of majors.

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