SPACE REASSIGNMENT PROPOSALS

April 2002

AREA

SUBMITTER

DESCRIPTION

Holsinger-Fuchs, Pamela

Description Re-Location

Haunted House To Residence life Storage

AODAP Dowell 113

Campus Ministry 102 Dowell

Game Room equipment Distribute to Residence halls

Ballroom Store chairs, stage and tables in garages (need for sale to be held this spring)

TV Room Donate old TV

SPACE Equipment Kiehle Storage

Conference Room Table/chairs to Dowell 102

Lounge furniture & big screen Morsel’s

Multicultural Lounge Current Help desk

Multicultural Office Help desk

SPACE Dowell 102

CSA Dowell 117

Habitat for Humanity Dowell 102

Service Learning Dowell 102

Student Activities Dowell 102

Bede Info Desk/Copier Dowell 102

Resource Room/Rentals Computer Storage

Post Office Robertson

Bookstore Robertson

Student Health (running water) Dowell 119 (close to two bathrooms)

ITV Dowell 110 (until summer 2003)

Dowell 116 will not be available because of cost of relocating fiber optics.

Financial considerations:

· Move security camera (bookstore and lounge-rewire to Robertson)

· Moving all furniture including bookstore? Plant services or contracted service?

· Remodel of Robertson for bookstore and building in mailboxes (use front loading mailboxes temporarily?)

· Wireless costs?

Lounge spaces:

· Love seat and chairs on 2^nd floor Dowell both ends with LAN outlets. (Wiring costs?)

Meeting rooms:

· SCC 108

· HRI room to be used as a regularly scheduled meeting room

· Brown Dining Room A permanently set up to replace Bede conference room

Knowlton, Doug

1. small office space for an office of interdisciplinary research;

2.  Space for a resource center and office for a global studies

Knowlton, Doug

After Jeff Sinks and I consulted we felt that the best approach at this time was to configure the space that was initially designated for the CIO position to be an office space that could initially be used by Dan Lim but that we may have some different needs for that space at some time in the future and that also has something to do with Dan's needs and faculty offices. Jeff was also looking into the placement of a temp wall in the Help desk office space that would facilitate that space being used as two separate offices. So at this time the space should be designated for Dan.

Knowlton, Doug

Health Sciences curriculum director office

Thomasson, Jim;

Demuth, David

Purpose: develop and support a research culture at UMC by providing services to identify and develop funding opportunities for the faculty, staff, and students.

Proposal:

Ideally we request two (2) office spaces, e.g. in the Kiehle complex or Selvig Hall 208 (Research Center) and 205 (office for DeMuth), or perhaps Dowell Annex 250 (Research Center) and 248 (office for DeMuth), one to house a new initiative vital to the work of faculty, a Center for Faculty Research, and an adjacent office to serve as the personal office for Dr. DeMuth, whose current office is inadequate to support the level of student project work he encourages. [Selvig 205, in proximity to Rand Rasmussen’s office, would provide one natural alliance for work of the Center. Dowell Annex 248 and 250, with adjoining interior door, would allow DeMuth’s office to open directly to the Research Center.]

Infrastructure: desks and workspace in Center for DeMuth, Thomasson, and an assistant; 2 additional work stations for visiting faculty/students working on grant projects. [Minimal desired workspace: 50 sq. ft. per researcher, or 250 sq. ft., with additional space for shelves, files, work table for small workshops, bulletin board, and related materials.]

Network: 8 ports minimum [ideally 10] to support 1 web server, 1 network printer, 3 primary laptops, and 3-5 for visitors with laptops, allowing for Center/guest researchers for small workshops.

Rationale:

A fundamental weakness pervades academic programming at many colleges and universities, especially small regional private colleges and under-funded branches of major state universities. Put in simple terms: they have no developed “culture of research”. By research most professors refer to the work they do to keep up—at least keep abreast or ahead of the students—in their field. Certainly, there are individuals who pursue projects of sponsored research, but they constitute a very small percentage of the overall faculty.

This absence of a “culture of research” is glaringly obvious at the University of Minnesota, Crookston, to both those within and outside observers. In response to a recent application for center funding to a TC competition, we drew two interesting responses from reviewers:

“The clearly stated goal is to get UMC faculty talking about research and how to incorporate it into their work - an extremely important goal.”

“This is a risky proposal - building a research culture in a school that has focused on teaching is tough work. However, the future of the campus demands some incorporation of research if the school is to reach its potential as a solid four-year institution that can send its students on to graduate programs.” [Emphasis ours]

The usefulness of such a center at UMC and to UMC is obvious. That it is perceived within the broader University system as both a weakness and a necessity is also clear. A significant part of the movement from a 2-year “technical” college to a full-fledged polytechnic component of a major 4-year + graduate research university is incorporating research into teaching and publication.

A “culture of research” is grounded in continuing, broad-based scholarship both within and across disciplines. It plumbs the depths of the methods and content within a discipline or field, and it extends beyond itself to the breadth of collision and integration with other disciplines. The contemporary examples are multiple and obvious: bio-chemistry, astrophysics, biomedicalethics, ethnomusicology, agroeconomics, to name a few. This critical movement, called dialectic, from breadth to depth to integration to application, is the intellectual spine that supports the body of knowledge from its foundation to the heights of emboldened inquiry.

A truly polytechnic education both invites and requires such a dialectical foundation. No application can be made in a context where foundations have not been adequately laid, nor the noetic structure plumbed or stretched by exciting, continuing scholarship.

Clearly, scholarship undertaken to refresh and inform oneself within one’s field of inquiry is important. It is an expected function of drawing salary as a professor. It is homework; but it is not research. It is a performance requirement for a professor—a job action, if you will.

There is another kind of scholarship. It is aimed at expanding the horizons of knowledge. One draws from the breadth/depth/integration of one’s knowledge to reach beyond the limits. Its goals are novelty, enhancement, and creativity-- hypothesis longing for verification, conceptualization reaching for application, stark calculation finding a measure of release in poetry. This kind of scholarship advances knowledge beyond the current reach of disciplines.

In the first kind of scholarship we inform ourselves in order to better prepare our students. In the second we seek to inform our colleagues and advance our common and shared quest.

At UMC there is no clarification of the expectations of or balance between so-called “publication research” and “teaching research”, nor between research involving “general preparation” [a professor’s “homework”] and “original, exploratory” work of research. [That latter distinction is derived from the AAUP statement on the role of re-search in faculty workload determination.]

Even the stamp of approval—Doctor of Philosophy in this or that—is a marker. It is conferred when one has demonstrated a level of mastery of the methods and content of a certain discipline or field of inquiry, but it carries with it a burdensome expectation as well—I am a lover of wisdom, off, sword in hand, to take a slice out of the under-belly of ignorance, destined to search for the “why” that lies beyond the “what”.

Those who do research, seeking to push back that frontier of unknowing, are scholars. They seek out a community of scholars. The community they seek participates in a “culture of research”.

Dowell

2000 Space Committee Recommendation

As the UMC computer center and instructional technology center move from Dowell Hall to Kiehle Hall upon completion of the Kiehle renovation, certain vacated space will be converted to classrooms. Specifically Dowell 102 and 110 would be converted from department/office space to classrooms. LAN, electricity, desks, chairs, instructor stations, and projection equipment would be installed into these rooms.

Dowell

Sherven, Peg

Dowell 104 (the current help desk), DH113A (notebook storage room) and DH113B (Doc's work area) DH117 (Jeff Sperling's office) will potentially be available by next fall.  If we cannot move to the new facility by the first week of August, the rooms won't be available. 

DH116:  Apparently, the various cabling in the back of the room is too expensive/cumbersome to move (T3, NETS, switches, patch panels), so this room will NOT be available. 

Dowell

Sinks, Jeff

I saw that DH 116 (the server room) listed as a space to possibly be reassigned.

A significant amount of networking infrastructure will have to remain in DH 116 unless we are able to raise several hundred thousand dollars to implement new fiber runs & switches to campus buildings.  DH116 is not likely to be available for reassignment in the next year or 2.

Dowell

Sinks, Jeff

Relocation Schedule
Area	Latest Date When Relocation Can Occur	Latest Date to Confirm a Fall Relocation	Suggested Date if Relocation by the Start of Fall 2002 is not Achieved
Don Medal Work Station	Aug 15th, 2002	Aug 1st, 2002
ITC	August 15, 2002	July 1, 2002	September 30, 2002
Media Services Tom	August 15, 2002	August 1, 2002	September 16, 2002
Media Services Dennis	August 15, 2002	August 1, 2002	September 16, 2002
Web Development	Aug. 1, 2002	July 15, 2002	Oct. 1, 2002
Server Relocation	August 1, 2002	July 15th, 2002	June 1, 2003
Fred Work Station	Sept. 1, 2002	July 15, 2002	June 1, 2002
Help Desk Peg	Aug. 1, 2002	July 15, 2002	1st Weekend of Oct. 2002
User Support Jeff	Sept. 1, 2002	July 15, 2002	June 1, 2002
User Support Doc	Aug. 1, 2002	July 15, 2002	1st Weekend of Oct. 2002
NETS	June 30 2003	December 20, 2002	Summer 2003
Notes:
Server relocation is a huge process, figure 2 weeks prelim work, 24 hrs to move and get up again, and two days following for clean up.
Many bodies are required for the actual move
Media Services can move any time with the exception of the week of classes starting.
NETS must notify other colleges 6 months in advance of a drop in network services.

Dowell 102

Odom, Marsha

I hadn't considered it my place to request that DH 102 be returned to classroom use.  I had understood that was going to occur as a matter of fact.

Since I see that others are asking for that space, I would like to find out it DH 102 is truly up for grabs, or is it already designated for classroom space and cannot be part of this discussion?

In any case, I am now speaking for DH102 to be returned to classroom space and provide one more room that can alleviate some of the scheduling issues that arise every semester. The rooms out in Lysaker are not ideal classrooms, and yet, we have had to put classes out there when we have run out of options.

 I am also copying this to Barb Cournia who has the responsibility for classroom scheduling.

Dowell 116

Medal, Don

I'd like to make something less muddied, if not clear. I have heard so many statements about DH116. The following are my opinions only, but I think I'm in a special position to make these recommendations.

Sink's statement is wrong: even the expenditure of hundreds of thousands to move all the fiber wouldn't free up all of that back area as it also serves as a wiring closet for Dowell Hall, with approximately 900 cables from LAN ports in that building needing a connection point. So no matter what we do, not all of DH116 will be available. It also houses fiber equipment owned by Qwest and Garden Valley, and will continue for the time being to be the central spot into which all the campus fiber runs. (A trunk cable will connect Kiehle to DH116) This fiber is what Jeff Sinks is talking about being so expensive to move.

We don't need to keep the whole room, however. Long term, only about the back 14 feet of DH 116 will still be needed for network equipment. This assumes:

Air conditioning is rearranged to cover this space.

A secure wall (drywall over plywood would be fine) is built dividing the room, with a 36" fire rated door, and

A concrete block wall be built under the raised flooring to block access that might otherwise be gained by going thru the sub-floor.

Windows should be either bricked up or otherwise made both impenetrable and unbreakable.

This would leave a space of approximately 17 by 17 feet available, and will actually leave the equipment in the smaller room more secure.

This said, it seems now likely that the server equipment won't move til June of 2003, which would BARELY leave time for occupancy in fall 2003.

Dowell 116

Svec, Andrew

I seem to recall back when plans were first being made for the Kiehle Project that Dowell 116, the current server room, or at least part of that room would still be needed as a "transfer point" for the campus network.  Since most of the campus network is already wired there, the thought at that time was that at least that back part should probably remain an access/transfer port for the campus network.  I remember that concept being stated several times in those early stages.  I don't know if that has changed, since I was no longer on that planning group when Diane Moen became the CIO--but she may not have been aware of that.  It might be worthwhile to check with Jeff Sinks or someone on the tech side to see if all or part of that room will still be needed or if that initial concept has changed.  Just thought I'd pass that along

Dowell Annex

Odom, Marsha

I have read Jim's space request and have spoken to him briefly about it.

Additional information. Paul Holm (second floor Dowell Annex - down the hall from DeMuth's current office) will be retiring sometime fairly soon. When that happens, we could allocate that office space to either David or to the research center space.

Jim T.(second floor Dowell Annex) could be moved into George's old office in SCC (near my office) when George moves back to Keihle and the new chemistry instructor could take Jim's old office.

It would keep the science math faculty together and Pam Elf and Soo Yin Lim Thompson's ( and hopefully the new chem instructor's) students involved in research could also use the facilities.

Dowell Annex

Thomasson, Jim

I think you would need to put David in my space and the Chemistry prof in David's current space, so that David can be adjacent to and hopefully open to the Research Center. Also, while involving students in research is important, the emphasis of our initiative is to promote research as one of the three significant components of faculty responsibility. Faculty are a major focus of the effort to create a "culture of research".

Dowell Hall ?

Brorson, Bruce

let me suggest a couple changes that I would like to see in the Dowell Hall physical facilities to support instruction in the Center for Business and Technology and specifically the ITM degree options.

1.   I would like to see our existing lab, DH 214, divided in half to accommodate two additional faculty offices.  With that change, we would be able to group four full time faculty members in the very same space and allow for greater interaction.  Dan Lim, Niaz Mahmood, Martin Lundel, and myself would all benefit from this change.

2.  My current office, DH 217 needs to be repurposed to a server room for support of the ITM program.  We'll be better able to isolate ITM student learning by segregating our traffic from the regular traffic of the UMC network, thus assuring higher levels of adherence to policies from the Twin Cities campus without damaging the relationship we have with students and supporting their inquisitive nature.  By creating this resource we'll better prepare for upcoming proposals in Network Security Administration as well as emerging developments in the industry.

3.  And finally, I would like to reconfigure and repurpose DH 201 from a general purpose classroom into a lab to support ITM instruction.  Today's small lab is busy from early in the morning until late in the evening and is equipped with only six workstation/servers because of space limitation.  We need space to accommodate at least 15 to 20 and 201 would be about the right size to do just that.

With the addition of more classroom space on the first floor I would hope that the above suggestions would not disrupt overall class scheduling.  Let me know what you think.

Hill

Nelson, Richard

5. Hill 209 B – Will become a Ag/NatR faculty office or adjunct office (two can share). When open positions (AgBus and Hort).are filled, Ag/NatR will have no available adjunct space for adjunct instructors. Without air conditioning, 209 B is unsuitable for year-round use as an office.

Hill

Nelson, Richard

1.  Second floor Hill is unsatisfactory space for summer offices.  205 (Holder) and 207 (Rahman) were to be air conditioned as part of the last space plan, but I was told that it would be more cost effective to do the work after roof repairs were made.  That being done now, is air conditioning in the plan for this spring?

2. Last time around, everyone seemed to agree that the mix of uses in Owen 118 is an unsatisfactory long-term arrangement from the academic as well as safety perspectives.  Does the Keihle renovation provide a new home for Art?

Hill

Odom, Marsha

I just read some information regarding space requests. I don't know when decisions are being made on those, but I am concerned that we must not let our art classroom space be adversely affected. The planning committee for Kiehle did not include any final plans for art, so art will not be moved to Kiehle.

Owen 118 is ideal in many ways for an Art Room. It has the plumbing and wiring needed. It has easy access to the outside. When the trailer can be moved out, it has the space necessary.

There are limited areas on campus that could meet the physical needs of Art. The top floor of Hill has the venting and plumbing. Maybe that space could be re-arranged to accommodate Art.

Hill ?

Kreager, Russ

I would like to request a portion of the lower level storage room in Hill that Media Services is currently using. The need is to store our 2 year supply of catalogs. We would not store any other Adm/FA items

Hill 12, 113

Nelson, Richard

New Ag Business Program Manager will require office space (can (likely be addressed shuffling of current users of Hill 12 and 113)

Hill 205, 207

Nelson, Richard

1. Hill 205,207 – Without air conditioning, the west side of Hill Hall is not suitable for use as office space during the summer months. The temperature on 2^nd floor Hill last summer routinely rose above 90 degrees by early afternoon. Telling faculty to move on those days when it is too hot to use their regular offices is not an acceptable solution. It is my understanding that air conditioning will be installed now that roof repairs are complete. If the Committee verifies that this is the case, no further action is required or recommended. If air conditioning is not to be installed, the faculty currently in those offices must be provided alternative permanent space. If the latter course is chosen, the ‘domino effect’ will impact others; it will likely not be limited to Ag/NatR personnel.

Hill 7

Myers, Ken

- The new SRM faculty would take the office Brian had.

Hill, Selvig

Nelson, Richard

3. Cross-Functional Collaboration & Co-Location – The present RFP appears to be a limited effort designed to address short-term campus needs (i.e. getting through Bede construction). However, pressure to generate new revenue and enhance institutional visibility and value as a public good will intensify. Incremental improvement will help us get along, but true innovation is needed to get ahead. It has been previously suggested that co-locating (or closely locating) the Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources, the Center for Adult Learning, and the NW District Extension Office could spark such innovation. Co-location in Hill (lower level) or Selvig 2 is still worthy of consideration if the narrow scope of the current RFP is expanded.

Kiehle

Almlie, Curt

I am not sure if you want this information for Space Committee, but this the current understanding of the utilization of space in Kiehle (personnel only)

April 9, 2002

Kiehle Building Room Assignments to date:

Room 115 Rose Ulseth, Patti Tiedemann, Sue Dwyer

Room 115A Mike Meyers

Room 115B Ardis Thompson

Room 115C Curt Almlie

Room 117 Del Roelofs

Room 119 Storage or Liz Tollefson

Room 120 Andrew Svec, John Zak

Room 125 Linda Wilkens

Room 151 Tom Sondreal

Room 153-55 Dennis Magsam

Room 150 Jeff Sinks, Mike Hanson, Kristi Puppe

Room 130 Don Medal

Room 138 Dale Kemble

Room 140 Jeff Sperling

Room 141-43 Rebekah Strotroen, Sarah Riewer

Room 142 Fred Eldredge

Room 137 Peg Sherven

Room 139 ?

Room 231 George French

Room 241-45 Library

Owen

Nelson, Richard

New Hort faculty member will require office space. Wagner is entering a phased retirement agreement and will remain on staff.

Owen

Nelson, Richard

Owen 204 and 206 (Loegering and Baird, respectively) require air conditioning as has been provided in 202 (Svedarsky). In the short term Hill 7 (Arscott) may need to be reassigned to meet Ag/NatR needs. In the longer term, as described in the previously submitted proposal, it could be part of a more meaningful change initiative between Ag/NatR, CAL, and Extension to share resources and build capacity for new revenue generation.

Summary

The short lead time for this RFP did not allow an inclusive group of users of Owen and Hill Halls to thoughtfully and creatively share ideas, weigh options, or discuss objectives. A more comprehensive plan for Owen and Hill halls is needed to improve space utilization, enhance the work and learning environment, and expand service quality and revenue potential. Such a plan would include changes in Owen 104, 108 and 118, several rooms on second floor Owen (including the space now occupied by Extension and two adjunct offices), all of Hill Hall, and (possibly) second floor Selvig.

With some shuffling, current Ag/NatR office space (including Hill 7 and 113, and 209B) should be adequate to “get through”. However, more innovative thinking will be needed to “get better”.

Owen ?

Petithomme, Joas; Cavalier, Don

I would like to request an appropriate office space for the Diversity Program for Fall Semester 2002. Diversity services should have adequate, suitably located office, technology, and equipment to support its mission and goals. Presently the Diversity office space is located in the adjunct professor’s area that is not private and convenient for the functioning of this office. Many of the activities offered by diversity student programs and services require some level of privacy. It is important that the physical office space be adequate for these purposes. The ideal private office space would be location in or closer to the One-Stop Counseling and Career Services Office in Owen Hall

Owen 104

Nelson, Richard

· The following apply to the specific rooms noted in the current RFY and/or to known needs not included in that document.

4. Owen 104 – Clean up is underway. 104 will return to its previous usefulness as lab prep area for PIM-Agro. If plans to move Art (#2, above) go forward, Owen 104, 118, and 108 should be considered together in a comprehensive plan to improve space utilization and create a better learning environment in that entire section of the building. Addressing the problems in 104 is essential, but the most significant benefits will only be realized with an integrated approach that includes 118 and 108 (two of the worst classrooms on campus) as well as 104.

Owen 118

Aakre, Paul

If Owen 118 is going be remodeled in some fashion, please do not forget about the need for a proper  storage area for the Survey trailer.  This trailer contains $1000,s of dollars of equipment that needs to be stored in a dry location, plus it must be very accessible during fall semester as it is taken out and used two times per week.  Owen 118 has provided a good location.  It must not be assumed that the trailer can be moved into the remaining Mech Ag bay (Owen 118). This lab is dangerously overcrowded as  it is since the loss of the welding lab.  This situation must also be looked at in the near future. 

Owen 118

Nelson, Richard

2. Owen 118 – Valid concerns were raised during the last space utilization assessment regarding the incompatible mix of uses currently in the room. Chief among these were safety and academic deficiencies related to Art instruction. It is my understanding that we were to make the best of a poor situation pending completion of the Keihl project which would include new space for Art. If that remains the case, no further action is required or recommended. If the Kiehl project does not directly or indirectly include new space for Art, then the Committee needs to revisit the matter. Once Art is moved to more suitable quarters, plans to redesign 118 for a better mix if uses can go forward.

Owen 118

Odom, Marsha

I just read some information regarding space requests. I don't know when decisions are being made on those, but I am concerned that we must not let our art classroom space be adversely affected. The planning committee for Kiehle did not include any final plans for art, so art will not be moved to Kiehle.

Owen 118 is ideal in many ways for an Art Room. It has the plumbing and wiring needed. It has easy access to the outside. When the trailer can be moved out, it has the space necessary.

There are limited areas on campus that could meet the physical needs of Art. The top floor of Hill has the venting and plumbing. Maybe that space could be re-arranged to accommodate Art.

Owen 208

2000 Space Committee

Owen 208 is a current classroom that is limited in it's use at UMC. LAN, electricity, an instructor station and overhead projector system will be added to this room. Previously included in error!

Owen 222

2000 Space Committee Recommendation

Convert 222 into a space that will have multiple uses for a 24 student classroom. The design will require new tables with wiring to each table, a new instructor station, and carpet and paint. The possibility of wiring the room so a switch can close down the LAN ports will be explored.

Robertson

Hier, Leela

Just to clarify the amount of space the bookstore will need during relocation. The bookstore currently has 1750 sq feet (not including storage space). It would be difficult to find equivalent space to accommodate the bookstore and Robertson seems to be the best choice. When I talked to Kent Freberg, one possibility for the bookstore was rooms 114 & 112 in Robertson. There is an old doorway between the 2 rooms that has been sealed but Kent felt this could be opened up and the current door out of 112 sealed to make the exit through room 112. Also room 111 would be needed for storage (we have to buy a pallet of paper at a time which is 40 cases; 7 years of bookstore records as mandated by the auditors, extra shelving, filing cabinets, displays, etc). Rooms 114 & 112 would be approximately 1040 sq. ft. which is 40% less space.  Bookstore inventory and services would drastically have to be cut back which intern means revenue will drop dramatically.

· Pam and I both express the following financial concerns regarding:

· moving the security camera (bookstore and lounge-rewire to Robertson)

· moving all furniture including textbook shelves, workstation, cash register area, clothing fixtures & displays, 

· track lighting, security door chime)

· moving and installing Point-of-Sale system

· moving inventory

· remodeling Robertson to accommodate bookstore needs (opening doorway between room 114 & 112; sealing

· the door in room 112, putting up standards for grid displays, installing textbook shelving, setting up workstation, 

· installing track lighting, installing security camera, installing security door chime, phone lines for incoming calls,

· credit card & fax)

· wiring Robertson for Point-of-Sale system

· access for freight shipments at Robertson

SCC 113

Myers, Ken

I would like to request the following to be discussed:

1- The office George French is in: Move David Seyfried into it. (Doug had mentioned this idea. I think related to another possible need for his office, but I’m not sure on that).

And the following had already been planned.

- The office Vern was in: Will be for the new HRI faculty.

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