College Survey

This survey was distributed to all deans and associate deans. Some responded directly while others asked their department chairs to respond.

Please take a few minutes to fill out this questionnaire and return it by e-mail to jbutler@uh.edu or by campus mail to John Butler, Geosciences-5503.

These questions are about General Purpose Classrooms, though comments concerning other kinds of teaching space are also welcome.

  1. Do you use General Purpose Classrooms? (If not, you need not complete the remaining questions.)

  2. Do you have enough, more than you need, or not enough General Purpose Classrooms allocated to your use? Please explain.

  3. Are there particular sizes or kinds of classrooms for which your need or surplus is especially acute? If so, please specify.

  4. Are there particular scheduling times for which your need or surplus is especially great? If so, please specify.

  5. How does the availability of classrooms interact (positively, negatively) with staffing issues, such as faculty workload policy, TA's, and needs/preferences of individual instructors? Please explain.

  6. How does the availability of classrooms interact (positively, negatively) with curricular issues, such as course content, format and teaching/learning styles? Please specify.

  7. Students today differ in some respects from those of 20-30 years ago, when many of our buildings were built. In your experience, how does the availability of classrooms interact (positively, negatively) with the changing needs and behaviors of UH students? Please specify.

  8. You have described your needs as of right now. In the year 2010, how will your needs have changed, and why?

  9. In a perfect University, what would the policy be for allocating General Purpose Classrooms?

  10. Figures show that since 1985 UH has experienced a decrease in instructional space. It is not so easy to determine why. Where, in your own experience, has the "lost space" gone? Is that a good thing? Please explain.
  11. Are there specific courses for which you would like to offer a section at a specific time, for which verifiable demand exists, and for which you could provide an instructor, but you are unable to offer these at the present time because of classroom constraints? If so, please list these courses and describe your needs.