Office Space Principles and Use GuidelinesÂ
Principles
- Owner of the space on campus: the provost
- Owner of the space assigned to units within the college: the dean
- Owner of space within a department/unit: The chair/director as defined by Professional Rights and Duties.
Use Guidelines by Occupant Type
- Faculty
- Private office or workstation. Faculty with multiple work locations might have a shared office in a second location, depending upon the location, need, and availability of space.
- Department chairs are to use their department chair office, if their department has one. If desired, the in-coming chair's old office can be held for them, but during their tenure as chair, their old office is to be available for use by others, such as in a hoteling fashion for post-docs and visiting babyÖ±²¥app.
- CU Boulder Faculty on Sabbatical
- Single-use office if sabbatical involves substantial time on campus, otherwise vacated space can be temporarily reassigned to others.
- Emeritus professors, post-docs, research babyÖ±²¥app, visiting babyÖ±²¥app
- No private offices. Shared or common space, however, research and post-doc babyÖ±²¥app might have private offices within a PI research space.
- Part-time babyÖ±²¥app of all types, lecturers
- Shared or common space
- Staff
- Dependent upon work responsibilities. Supervisors and staff with high confidentiality responsibilities will often have single-use offices, otherwise shared space.
- Graduate Students
- No appointment: no space
- TA appointment: shared or common desk space, at minimum a space to meet students
- RA appointment: within PI lab space where applicable, shared or common space otherwise.
General Square Foot Recommendations by Position/Category
Due to the varied age of buildings within our infrastructure and outdated space configurations, rigid adherence to a blanket square foot standard is impractical. But, departments should implement these guidelines and attempt to make do with their current space allocation even if they are recruiting new babyÖ±²¥app.
All requests will begin with an audit of the department’s current space, reconciled with these guidelines.
For a full list of space guidelines, please visit the campus' space guidelines documentation.