Focus groups to improve teaching spaces, March 20-21
by Jamie Gonzales |
Students: Tuesday, March 20, 7-8 p.m., UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 307
Staff: Wednesday, March 21, 8-9 a.m. and 12-1 p.m., Administration Building, Room 204
Faculty: Wednesday, March 21, 9-10 a.m. and 1-2 p.m., Administration Building, Room 204
Are you faculty, staff or a student at the University of Alaska Anchorage main campus? Would
you like to impact how the campus uses its teaching spaces? Sightlines, a facilities asset advisory firm, will host five focus group sessions at UAA--two
each for faculty and staff and one for students. Please join us at one of the sessions
listed above!
UAA administration has asked Sightlines to help them understand its unmet programmatic
requirements and develop a strategy to optimize the campuses' teaching spaces. Sightlines
believes that an understanding of the utilization rates, the space use and the space
users' requirements are key in identifying why spaces are functioning effectively
or not.
What is the objective of the focus group discussions?
We want to capture the university's faculty, staff and student perceptions and expectations
for our teaching spaces. Sightlines has collected an abundance of information on approximately
210 teaching spaces at the UAA main campus. This information includes room schedules
and occupancy rates for the past four semesters. Each room was visually inspected
to assess conditions and note the available technology within each space.
Faculty, staff and student perceptions and expectations will be compared to the statistical
data noted above. There are many aspects of teaching spaces that are unquantifiable
and known only to those who are actively teaching or learning in the rooms. It is
Sightlines' goal to integrate the statistical findings with the comments of faculty
and students to determine a plan that best meets the programmatic and capital goals
of the institution.
Please call or email Lesley Lepley at (907) 786-1343 or lnlepley@alaska.edu to R.S.V.P.
or with any questions you may have. Please encourage your staff, faculty and students
to attend!
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