Resources & Community Research Group: Leon Johnson Hall suite 319
Description of Request
Submitted By: Planning, Design, & Construction
University Facilities Management is preparing for upcoming development along 7th Avenue
for future academic facilities to support the University's mission. The entire Facilities
operation, including Work Control and campus trades functions, will be relocated and
consolidated to make way for new building construction. Faculty Court is being considered
as the new location for these operations, therefore some of the first steps of this
process has included inventorying space within Faculty Court modulars and Faculty
Court houses. Campus Planning has been working this fall with each Faculty Court occupant
to identify relocation opportunities.
The Resources and Community Research Group focuses on discovery and engagement on
important natural resource and rural economic development issues (tribal, community
partnerships). The Space Management Committee allocated Faculty Court 25 to the group
in 2019. The program has anywhere from 6-7 students, post docs, and undergraduates
at any one time. Julia Haggerty, the program’s director, gave up her faculty office
in Traphagen Hall to accommodate new faculty within her department and to be co-located
with her research group for supervision purposes. The needs of the program include
the use of one private office, 2 shared office spaces and access to a conference room/meeting
space. Leon Johnson Hall suite 319 was previously occupied by the Ivan Doig Center
and American Studies, which has since been relocated into the space vacated by Native
American Studies in Wilson Hall. The Wheeler Center occupies the office in 319B, but
is scheduled to be relocated into a vacant office space in Wilson 2190 over the winter
break.
Given the program’s mission and synergies that exist with other programs and faculty
within Leon Johnson Hall, staff proposes the allocation of Leon Johnson Hall suite
319 (319, 319A, 319B, 319D) and shared use of the conference room in 319C to the Resources
and Community Research Group as an alternative to their space in Faculty Court 25.
The College of Letters and Science (CLS) is in support of this use as there were significant
improvements made to the space by the previous CLS occupants.
Resolution
Date: December 2, 2022
Space Management Committee has approved the relocation of the Resources and Community Research Group into Leon Johnson Hall suite 319.