Learning Spaces Leadership Committee
The Learning Spaces Leadership Committee (LSLC) is responsible for:
- The decision-making process for general purpose classrooms (GPCs) guided by faculty and student input and the learning spaces research.
- The proposal process for requesting upgrades, remodeling, and new construction of GPCs and other learning spaces.
- Development of a complete budget, including life-cycle funding, to support learning spaces university-wide. This information will be presented annually to university leadership.
- Promoting learning spaces experimentation and innovation through faculty development, research support, and technology solutions.
The LSLC is comprised of an executive leadership committee and two subcommittees: Academic & Operations and Technology. The committees have intentional membership overlap to ensure effective knowledge sharing and communication.
Executive Committee
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Develop a strategic plan for learning spaces
- Review and recommend policy changes to university leadership
- Review and provide budget guidance
- Identify resource requirements and new investment opportunities
- Create goals and responsibilities for subcommittees
- Identify life cycle/operating funding
- Finalize Annual Report (to include, but not limited to, investment updates, learning spaces utilization, and faculty development and research support provided by the university)
- Review subcommittee recommendations and make final project decisions
- Review and approve organizational and staffing recommendations
- Recommend projects for campaign tied to “Transforming Education”
Academic Subcommittee
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Conduct research on learning spaces
- Identify innovative and promising practices
- Write research reports and presentations
- Develop learning space design values and priorities
- Engage faculty and students in research experiments and projects
- Finalize Annual Learning Space Report
- Benchmark with other institutions
- Develop proposal submission process for LSLC
- Review project proposals
Operations & Technology Subcommittee
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Develop design specifications for approved projects at UP and Commonwealth Campuses
- Develop cost estimates for approved projects and submit to Executive Committee
- Monitor spending on approved projects
- Facilitate completion of University Park projects
- Liaise with Commonwealth Campus personnel on campus projects
- Provide quarterly progress reports to LSLC Executive Committee
- Manage life cycle operating needs and upgrades
- Develop recommendations for furnishings
- Submit annual draft report of completed projects with final costs to Executive Committee
- Ensure Safety and security of approved projects
- Coordinate with the Office of the University Registrar on capacity and scheduling issues
- Ensure accessibility of and access to classrooms and learning spaces