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research space management

• Overview
• Scope
• Goals
• Project sponsors
• Project team
• Advisory groups/individuals
• Estimated timeline
• Current status
• For more information

This project is complete. For the guidelines and supporting information, refer to Research Space Guidelines.

Overview

The goals of the project are to explore how research space is allocated, managed, and monitored on the Ann Arbor campus.

Scope

This project affects General Fund academic units with research space on the Ann Arbor campus.

Goals

The goals of the Research Space Management project are to:

• Explore current school/college business practices for managing research space and identify best practices.
• Determine campus needs for campus-wide research spae management guidelines and research space productivity metrics that might be applicable across disciplines.
• Develop guidelines and systematic reports to support school/college research space management needs.
  

Project Sponsors

• Phil Hanlon
  Vice Provost for Academic and Budgetary Affairs
• Steve Ceccio
  Associate Vice President for Research

Project Team

The project team includes the following individuals:

• Frances Mueller
  Project Manager, Space Utilization Initiative *
• Fadi Musleh
  Project Administrator and Support, Space Utilization Initiative

* project manager

Advisory Groups/Individuals

• Space Utilization Initiative Steering Committee
• Space Utilization Initiative Faculty Advisory Committee
• Stephen Forrest
  Vice President for Research
• Tim Slottow
  Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
• Terry Sullivan
  Provost and Executive Vice President

Estimated Timeline

Project initiation: May 2008

Explore current business practices for managing research space	5/08-6/08
Determine campus needs for campus-wide guidelines, metrics	6/08-8/08
Draft guidelines and obtain campus feedback	9/08-12/08
Determine data available and data needed to support reporting	9/08-3/09
Communicate guidelines to campus	1/09-3/09
Implementation	4/09

 

Current Status

This project is complete. For the guidelines and supporting information, refer to Research Space Guidelines.

4/09: The draft guidelines were shared with the Academic Program Group (APG) and the Budget Administrators Group (BAG).

3/09:  The draft research space reports continue to be modified based on the feedback received from budget administrators.

2/09:  Space Utilization Initiative Project Manager shared draft guidelines with Vice Provosts and Associate Deans Group (VPADG) to obtain feedback.  Draft research space productivity reports have been shared with budget administrators from a few schools and colleges as well as the Office of Space Analysis.

1/09: Associate Vice President for Research Steve Ceccio and Space Utilization Project Manager shared draft guidelines with SACUA Research Policy Committee to obtain feedback. MAIS is developing draft reports that would aide in making research space management decisions.

12/08: Associate Vice President for Research Steve Ceccio and Space Utilization Project Manager shared draft guidelines with Research Associate Deans (RAD) group, Academic Program Group (APG) Budget Subcommittee to obtain feedback. Draft guidelines will be vetted and shared further with additional campus groups in the coming weeks.

10/08: Shared draft research space guidelines with a group of four research associate deans, a budget administrator, and the Space Utilization Initiative Steering Committee to obtain feedback.

9/08: Drafted generic research space guidelines, based on focus group feedback from four research associate deans and conducted thorough web searches of other research institutions.

8/08: Space Utilization Initiative Project Manager and Associate Vice President for Research met to discuss common themes from the focus groups and are determining if there is a campus need for research space guidelines.

6/08: Conducted a small focus group with four research associate deans. The purpose of the focus group was to better understand how research space is managed, allocated, and monitored within these units. 

For More Information

For more information on the Space Utilization Initiative, contact space.utilization@umich.edu.

Last updated: 4/08/09