Space has been of growing significance in social theory in recent years, yet, explorations of it in the scholarship of higher education have been limited. This is surprising, given the critical role space has in shaping staff and students' engagement with the university. Taking a practice-based approach and focusing on academic identities, this…

Gives examples of space guidelines designed so that an institution can select planning modules for the allocation of space as well as for the acquisition and construction of new space. (MLF)

The purpose of the study was to survey and describe procedures for allocating faculty office space at selected colleges and universities. The findings indicated only a few insitutions with no standard procedures or guidelines for allocating faculty space. Most institutions reported that the academic vice-president was in charge of faculty space…

The primary objective of the Task Force on Space and Utilization was to prepare a building space and utilization guide that could serve as a key element in the development of a formula for the allocation of capital funds to the Ontario universities. Part 1 of the Task Force report presents a brief history of the development of capital financing…

This document presents an inventory of current physical facilities of universities in Ontario (Canada) as of the 1992-93 academic year and a review of trends over the past 10 years. Section 1 is an introduction. Section 2 reviews trends of the past 10 years in seven graphs. Section 3 contains tables providing data by institution. They include…

Inventory data for the physical facilities of Ontario, Canada, universities are presented, as of November 1989. The first table presents a summary of all net assignable square meters (NASM) by institution. Table 2 presents a detailed breakdown of all NASM, by institution, for each of 20 space categories (such as health service, residential,…

Proposes an accounting system that uses students' time in class as a basis for allocating space. A printout of information about an English department is used as an example. (MLF)

Information on physical facilities of Ontario, Canada, universities for 1980-81 is presented. Summary data are provided on all net assignable footage (NASF), by institution, for categories of space covered by the Council on Ontario University (COU) space standards and for categories of space to which the standards do not apply. Information is also…

A format to be used by each of the institutions in the University of Wisconsin and Wisconsin State University systems to summarize information which justifies requests for new facilities. Its completion requires information concerning--(1) present and projected student enrollments by level, and (2) amounts of space by "category" (i.e., classroom…

Average hours per week of scheduled occupancy of classroom and laboratory space in the nine institutions of higher education operated by the State of Oregon are analyzed and also compared with similar information concerning other states' institutions as available from the U. S. Office of Education. Classroom and laboratory utilization was based…

This document presents two kinds of data, gathered from several State reports, that pertain to higher education facilities. The first type of data reflects the standards and space utilization forecast used in planning higher education facilities; the second provides information about the utilization of existing facilities. Planning standards are…

General developmental considerations, space and facility requirements, and facility equipment needs for the new humanities building are described and summarized. Net floor area and total net floor area are charted for each room facility, as study, office, classroom, conference/seminar area, or work area, of each department comprising the…

The costs of owning and operating physical facilities are consuming an increasing share of the budgets of colleges and universities. In the past, academic and operating units of colleges have viewed their space as a free commodity and often used it extravagantly. Space costing is a method of cost accounting the space and operating and maintenance…

In higher education, the practice of "space budgeting" requires departments to pay directly from annual budget allocations for the space they are assigned and use. Goals of space budgeting are defined, some of the issues identified, and alternate approaches suggested. (MLF)

A study tested the hypothesis that higher organizational status translates into larger and better office space. One full professor, one associate professor, and one assistant professor for each of 30 departments in a large, mid-Atlantic land grant university were interviewed by organizational communication students. The results did not support the…