Classroom Utilization

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Classroom Utilization Needs

• Office of Capital Planning and Design

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Classroom Utilization Needs

• Rickes Associates analysis
• Questions asked
• How many and what size rooms need to go into
  Independence?
• What are classroom needs over time as we build
  new buildings, renovate existing ones, and grow
  our student population?

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Classroom Utilization Needs

• Rickes Associates analysis
• Fall 2003 classes
• General Assignment classrooms (those assigned to
  Enrollment Services)
• Needs projected through 2009

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Classroom Utilization Needs

• General Assignment classrooms
• Fall 2003
• 112 classrooms
• 107,039 SF
• 7,209 seats
• 1,130 daytime courses
• 2,830 weekly class hours

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Classroom Utilization Needs
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Classroom Utilization Needs

• Utilization Rates
• Station size
• Room hour
• Seat utilization

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Classroom Utilization Needs

• Utilization Rates
• Station size
• Average square feet per seat
• Target rate 20-25 sf per seat
• Current rate 18 sf per seat (excluding
  fixed-seat rooms)

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Classroom Utilization Needs

• Utilization Rates
• Room hour
• Number of hours room in use for classes
• Target rate 67-70 of available hours
• Current rate 57
• Ranges from 4 to 89

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Classroom Utilization Needs

• Utilization Rates
• Seat utilization
• Average amount of seats filled
• Target rate 67-70 of available hours
• Current rate 62 (excluding auditoria)
• Ranges from 22 to 100

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Classroom Utilization Needs

• Reasons for poor utilization
• Schedule creep classes that meet in
  non-standard time blocks
• Technology requests
• Classroom size/class size mismatches
• Uneven class distribution over days of week and
  time of day

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Classroom Utilization Needs

• Classroom size vs. class sizes

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Classroom Utilization Needs

• Fall 2005

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Classroom Utilization Needs

• Distribution over days and time

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Classroom Utilization Needs

• Recommendations
• Right size classrooms to 22.5 sf per seat
• Reign in schedule creep
• Spread classes out over full day and across days
• Make upgrades to classrooms, in particular
  technology
• Rebalance amount of rooms in each capacity range
  to match needs

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Classroom Utilization Needs

• Long Range Classroom Needs

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Classroom Utilization Needs

• Next Steps
• OCPD, OCP, IITS, ISAG, Enrollment Services
• Develop multi-year program of classroom
  improvements goal - recommended balance of
  rooms within a decade
• Improve understanding of technology needs
• Develop classroom standards manual