Not only may your desk be under another roof when the Student Services Building opens, but thankfully, the people in your department may be closer... ah shucks.
According to minutes from the Faculty Senate meeting, the master plan for Ohlone's Fremont campus will soon initiate (carefully and slowly) what the senate and VP of Instruction, Jim Wright call "clustering."
We here at the FacStaff wanted to know more, so we asked Dr. Wright. Here's what he had to say:
"In 2004 the Board of Trustees approved master planning concepts for the Fremont Campus. This was in response to space on the Fremont Campus that would be opened up due to the addition of the Newark Campus and the new Student Services Building. The clustering concept for Fremont involves three academic areas. Two of these have had classrooms and labs in several different buildings and the idea of clustering is to bring their rooms together into one building.
"This involves the Science and Technology cluster in Building 8 and the Deaf Studies and ASL cluster in Building 6. The Physics Lab and the Engineering Lab will move from Building 6 to Building 8. The Deaf Studies and ASL classrooms and labs will move from Buildings 15, 5 and 1 to Building 6. The third academic area involved is the Fine and Performing Arts. They envision more of their classes being in Building 2 and trying to create more of a connection with the Smith Center.
"This is also part of the overall vision of the north entry to the campus becoming a third major gateway, with the old houses and portable buildings being removed and more parking added. This third gateway will be in addition to the south entry where the Student Service Building will be located and the exising up and down entry from the lower parking lots.
"One of the major planning concepts related to this is moving more parking to the upper campus level to create a north - south (flat!) pattern of foot traffic, in addition to the up-down pattern from the lower lots."
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