What Works and What Doesn't

What do you like about placement of different functions now?

• Having the faculty all together in one building
• Centrally located food service that brings people together
• Open spaces where people congregate

What don’t you like?

• Administrative offices split between Wood Hall and LRC
• Student and faculty lounges that have to double as entertainment space
• No logic to where functions are located
• Bunker feel of McCarty classrooms
• No good special event venue
• Prime study space and coffee bar too far apart
• No covered walkways
• Computer services staff should be centrally located and not with library staff
• Food service in inadequate. Food is too primitive.
• Entrance to Boley being away from bridge
• Seclusion of faculty lounge
• Not enough covered outdoor areas where students can congregate during rainy season
• No food service in Wood Hall

What are the problems?

• Parking/transportation hassles
• Availability of 2-6 person study space in various parts of campus
• Difficult handicap access
• Redesign under-used areas like balcony in Wood Hall
• Need more open outdoor space for groups of people to gather in good weather
• Administration, career services, faculty all split up
• No courtroom
• Not as much student/faculty interaction as there used to be. Students don’t visit faculty offices as much as they used to.
• Need 24 hour study space

How do we overcome these problems?

• Add more parking
• Create a better student lounge in the LRC where casual and spontaneous interaction between faculty and students can occur. It should have comfortable, moveable furniture, tables and lamps.
• Better planning
• Computer Services needs more space and should be centrally located.
• Keep faculty offices central
• Keep offices with large interior relite
• More BBQ's
• More faculty/student lunches (not just pizza)
• Disperse faculty offices, so more walking and therefore, more opportunities for them to "drop in" on students.

What will attract future students?

• Appealing and comfortable library and study space (like Wood Hall)
• Network at every desk
• Ease of parking
• Classrooms with windows and natural light
• Less rain, more sun
• Taking advantage of the natural beauty of the setting; leaving it as it is
• Maintain the outdoor feel
• More buildings like Wood Hall
• Listen to the students. They know what will keep them.
• Nicer student lounge, more comfortable furniture.

What can bring people together?

• Food
• Gathering space for different weather conditions
• Ping-pong
• Forced crossing of paths
• Seating in hallways outside of faculty offices

What will make the Law School function better?

• More inter-connectedness between buildings
• Strengthen areas where students hang out and faculty will drop by
• Place Admissions near front door
• Put the students and faculty near each other
• Covered walkways

What values should be reflected in campus organization?

• Faculty and student interaction
• Efficient operation of staff to support faculty and students
• Proper placement of staff for accessibility to visitors and students
• Thoughtful layout, rather than hodge-podge
• Respect for environment
• Ease of access
• Community, professionalism, fun

What should the campus look like 20 years from now?

• Cloister with central gathering area
• Have water feature
• Keep the trees and flowers. Keep the personal scale and outdoor seating
• Underground parking
• Buildings around larger outdoor common areas (a quad)
• Not so many concrete bunkers
• More gathering nodes