40,000 and Beyond:

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40,000 and Beyond

• Facilitating Enrollment Growth Through Classroom
  Scheduling Efficiency

Louis Hunt North Carolina State University
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Rethinking ClassroomDesign
The forms and functions of learning spaces are
changing. New types of learning spaces not only
incorporate new hardware and systems, they also
create new patterns of social and intellectual
interaction, alter the demand for space on
campuses, and suggest new strategies for overall
campus design. William J. Mitchell,Professor of
Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences,
MIT Presentation at ELI Meeting 2004
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NC States Scheduling Environment

• Distributed to Academic Departments
• 100 scheduling officers
• Centralized Classroom Assignment
• 265 classrooms
• Includes Carmichael Gym, Reynolds Coliseum, Pulp
  and Paper Labs.
• 3200 sections
• 78 ClassTech rooms, 157 have projection
• 25 rooms assigned to Registration and Records
• Laboratories are scheduled by departments

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Classroom UtilizationUNC System Measures
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UNC System Measures

• Percent Student Station Utilization (Fill Ratio)
• Goal is 65 percent fill
• NC State 62.4
• UNC-CH 66.5
• ECU 61.0
• UNC-Char 61.5

Student Clock Hours in Classrooms
Percent Station Utilization

Potential Clock Hours in Classrooms
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UNC System Measures

• Hours of use per week in classrooms
• Goal is 35 hours per week
• NC State 31.3
• UNC-CH 25.6
• ECU 28.2
• UNC-Char 36.2

Total Room Hours of Instruction
Avg. Weekly Hours Of Instruction

Total Number of Classrooms
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UNC System Measures

• Space Factor
• Goal is 0.79 based on the following
• 65 fill ratio, 35 hours per week, 18 assignable
  sq. feet per student station
• NC State 0.77
• UNC-CH 1.00
• ECU 0.87
• UNC-Char 0.71

Assignable Sq. Ft. / Station

Space Factor
Avg. Weekly Room Hours
Percent Station Utilization
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Scheduling Challenges
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Scheduling Challenges

• Too many courses with non-standard meeting times
  and patterns.
• Use policy and committee review process to force
  courses to adhere to the standard timetable.
• Examine and consider changes to campus timetable.
• Create more 75 minute meeting patterns
• Combine centennial and main campus timetable
• Delay class start time to 830 AM
• Require departments to offer at least 50 of
  courses outside of primetime

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Scheduling Challenges

• Distributed ownership and control of rooms
  affects scheduling efficiency, for example
• Pre-assignment of courses to priority spaces
• Non-course use of rooms during peak periods
• Departmental investments in specific rooms
• Quality, technology, or related issues
• Centralize ownership, scheduling, and support of
  classrooms. Provide alternative space for
  meetings, seminars, and similar departmental
  functions.
• Limit non-course use of classrooms.

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Scheduling Challenges

• Many classrooms lack adequate technology and
  related support.
• Provide consistent, appropriate, and ubiquitous
  technology in all classrooms.
• Provide centralized support, training, and
  maintenance for classroom technology.
• Create reservable electronic classrooms.

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Scheduling Challenges

• Inaccessible, inflexible, out-dated, and poorly
  furnished classrooms have low utilization.
• Ensure that all classrooms are accessible and use
  current ergonomic and environmental design
  principles.
• Adequate desktop space for students
• Student-teacher eye contact

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Scheduling Challenges

• Lack of appropriately sized classrooms in
  proximity to academic departments.
• Ensure that each campus neighborhood has an
  appropriate array of classroom sizes for the
  pedagogy of its residents.
• Distribute more large classrooms across campus
• Partner with other units on campus to create
  dual-purpose rooms.
• Witherspoon Cinema, DH Hill Library
• Make classrooms a priority in new construction

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Campus Neighborhoods
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