Subject: Additional Seminar Rooms
From: "Dean William M. Treanor" <[email-masked]>
To: Law Faculty and Visitors <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 18:09:45 +0000

Dear Colleagues,

As you are aware, we have been in need of additional classroom space for many years. Currently, during the fall and spring semesters, we encounter time blocks throughout the day and evening when we have no open classrooms and cannot schedule additional classes or hold any extra-curricular meetings because there are no rooms available. Based on requests from faculty over the years, we have seen that there is a particular need for mid-size classrooms that seat between 25 and 50 students.  Over the holiday break we have plans to help alleviate this space crunch by dividing Classroom 437, which is on the fourth floor of McDonough, to create two seminar classrooms.  One classroom will seat thirty-two students and the second classroom will seat twenty-eight students. Both spaces will be equipped with up to date technology equipment.

To create these two seminar rooms, in addition to the space in old Room 437, we will use spaces currently occupied by the faculty assistant work stations that sit just outside the doors on the East and West side of the current classroom.  The faculty assistants have been relocated inside the office of Faculty Support, where they will continue to support the 4th floor faculty.

Construction is set to begin on Monday, December 21st at 6:00am.  Finals will have concluded by this time; however, we are aware that faculty may still be working in their offices prior to departing for the holiday break.  In light of this, we have requested that the construction crew work only between the hours of 6:00am – 2:30pm on Monday, December 21st, Tuesday, December 22nd, Wednesday, December 23rd.  We hope that by doing this, the noise created from preparing the space for its new purpose will occur during the time of the day that is least disruptive. Construction will continue when the building reopens in the new year, with most of the noisy work completed by January 5th. The project is scheduled to be completed by January 15th.

I appreciate your patience. We have tried to minimize disruption, and the creation of the new seminar rooms will be an important step in addressing our space problems.

Best, Bill