IUB Classroom Committee

IUB Classroom Committee

The Bloomington Classroom Committee has as part of its charge the development of a long range plan to improve the physical condition of all general purpose classrooms. To begin its work, the Committee made several assumptions:

Certain minimum requirements must be met in every classroom
The most critical distinction among classrooms is the technology capability of each room
It is not possible or desirable to offer identical capabilities in all rooms
Availability of technology should not be related to room capacities
Rooms with installed technology should be distributed across classroom buildings, building conditions permitting

Given these assumptions, the Committee agreed upon the technology capabilities that would define each of four room types. The various technology combinations were determined through a faculty survey sponsored by the Classroom Technologies Committee, whose charge was to develop a plan to guide teaching and learning technologies over the next 5-10 years, and general information gathered by classroom professionals primarily from the Office of the Registrar, Instructional Support Services, and Electronics.

To guide the renovation of existing classrooms and the design of new classrooms, the Classroom Committee developed Model Descriptions for each type. Since the development of the first four room types, three others have been developed: Type V (Computer Classroom), Type VI (Video Teleconferencing Classroom), and a Video Origination Addendum. Types I through IV are also represented in matrix form.

A Ten-Year Plan that brings all campus classrooms into one of these categories was created by the Classroom Technologies Committee (disbanded upon completion of its final report).

Goals

No classroom should be less capable than the Type I classroom after 2007
Rooms with installed technology (Type III and IV) should be distributed across classroom buildings, building conditions permitting
30% of classrooms in each building should be Type III or IV
All general purpose classrooms with capacity of 80 seats or greater should be at least Type III, especially those with fixed auditorium seating
At least 75% of classrooms with capacity of 0-40 should be Type II
At least 7% of classrooms with capacity of 0-40 should be Type III
At least 30% of classrooms with capacity of 41-79 should be at least Type III

Number of rooms in each category at present and after goals have been met

	1997	2000	+/-	2007
Type I
0-40	43	31	-12	26
41-79	46	25	-21	27
80-149	13	5	-8	0
150-	4	1	-3	0
	106	62	-44	53

Type II
0-40	86	103	17	96
41-79	23	35	12	32
80-149	1	0	-1	0
150-	0	0	0	0
	110	138	28	128

Type III/IV
0-40	3	3	0	10
41-79	16	24	8	26
80-149	13	26	13	30
150-	15	15	0	16
	47	68	21	82

Room counts will fluctuate from year to year due to the nature and extent of any ongoing renovation.

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Classroom Committee members:

Beverly Teach, UITS Classroom Technology Services, co-chair
Hank Hewetson, Physical Plant, co-chair
Susan Fernandes, Bureau of Facilities Programming & Utilization
Greg Fichter, Building Services
Nancy Gambrel, Office of the Registrar
Tom Gieryn, Sociology
Martha Jacques, Disability Services for Students
Jeff Kaden, Engineering Services
Reza Pishgahi, UITS
Tim Spears, UITS
Gary Staley, UITS
Tom Swafford, Space Management
Frank Young, University Architect's Office

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