Purpose
These principles help ensure that space is used effectively and equitably, supporting the university's mission and fostering a positive environment for all stakeholders. They serve as guidelines for decisions and inform procedures regarding university space management.
Principles
Strategic Alignment and Responsiveness
The university will allocate space in alignment with its strategic priorities, ensuring responsiveness to evolving program needs and institutional goals. Regular reviews and updates will ensure that space allocations continue to support the university's mission, sustainability goals, and adapt to changing circumstances.
Equitable Shared Resources
Space is a shared university resource allocated equitably to departments, users, and programs. The allocation process will consider the diverse needs and resources of all units, ensuring that space supports the university’s mission and fosters collaboration across departments.
Monitored, Managed, and Data Informed
Maintaining a complete and accurate space inventory is essential for effective planning and management. The university will utilize data-informed approaches to monitor space usage, ensuring decisions are informed by comprehensive and up-to-date information.
Optimal Utilization and Flexibility
Space will be efficiently used for its intended functions, with flexibility to accommodate changing needs. When functions change, space will be re-allocated based on data-informed analysis to ensure optimal utilization and support for evolving program requirements.
Transparent, Fair, and Inclusive
Space decisions will be transparent, fair, and inclusively developed with input from stakeholders. The process will ensure equitable application across colleges and departments, promoting open communication and engagement to foster a culture of shared responsibility and trust.
Unit Integrity
Space proximity and adjacency of like functions is essential to effective teams, unit cohesion and community. These values will ensure a reasonable and measured approach to managing space within units preventing precise measurements and allocations from overriding adjacency and proximity to essential functions.