{"id":22128495,"date":"2024-03-04T05:30:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usustatesman.com\/?p=22128495"},"modified":"2024-02-29T20:33:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T03:33:39","slug":"committee-approves-facilities-enhancement-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usustatesman.com\/committee-approves-facilities-enhancement-requests\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee approves facilities enhancement requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">On Feb. 12, Utah State University\u2019s Facilities Enhancement Committee, made up of members of the Academic Senate with executive vice president Aly Cinq-Mars as chair, met to discuss how to fund all the requests made with the allotted $200,000 budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The facilities enhancement requests were open for the entire month of January for students, faculty and staff. Anyone could request to enhance any facility on campus that they see fit. With a total of 14 requests, all for the Logan campus, three requests stood out among the rest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><b>HPER Lounge <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The HPER lounge is used by 7,000 students spanning all nine colleges annually. The furniture has not been updated since the early 2000s. This request was made by one of USU\u2019s associate deans and will decidedly be fulfilled using the facilities enhancement budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201c\u200b\u200bWe want to redo the furniture in there because it hasn\u2019t been updated since the early 2000s And a lot of it is scuffed up and so we want to replace it with new furniture that is coated in a certain fabric that is easy to wipe down so that it will hopefully last a little bit longer than the last furniture,\u201d said Chloe Richmond, senator for Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services. The HPER is located next to the ARC. It is not only used for academics across all nine colleges but also by Campus Recreation for group fitness classes such as stand-up paddleboard yoga, as well as for events such as cardboard boat racing. The lounge is frequented by students attending these activities as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><b>Baby Changing Stations in Bathrooms<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Sponsored by the College of Science senator Jaxton Winder, this request seeks to add baby changing stations to specifically men\u2019s bathrooms on campus. This is to aid student-parents as they attend USU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cI was actually on a road trip and ended up in a bathroom and noticed that they had baby changing stalls that were very clearly marked. It just kind of popped in my head; I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve really seen any baby-changing stations in the men\u2019s bathrooms at Utah State. I came back and looked at a few of the bathrooms I was in and was shocked to see how few there actually were,\u201d Winder said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The baby changing stations request can only be funded for what is known as ENG-buildings, or any buildings with a classroom in them. This is referred to as ENG-funds which come from the state and tuition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">With this request, there are plans to increase signage for baby changing stations as well as make them marked on USU\u2019s digital map which can be found at maps.usu.edu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Winder not only hopes to make the lives of student-parents easier on campus but also to push for gender equality with this request.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cThe inequality of changing stations, where they\u2019re in more women\u2019s bathrooms than men\u2019s, also just subtly reinforces gender norms that we\u2019re all kind of working to fix,\u201d Winder said. \u201cIf someone wants to be a caretaker, awesome, but that shouldn\u2019t be pushed on someone because of their gender.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Winder is planning on sending students to every bathroom on campus to check for baby changing stations. Students looking to get involved can contact Winder at sciencesenator.ususa@usu.edu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><b>Water Lab Remodel<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Already partially funded by a donor, the Utah Water Research Lab is looking to remodel the basement to make a space for student researchers. This building is most frequented by grad students who often spend most of their day in this building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">With the new Water Lab bus loop this year, more student researchers are being hired. The committee was in a clear agreement to fund this facility enhancement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cStudents eat lunch in the hallways outside of offices on the ground because there\u2019s not a lot of space for it. And like the faculty that works there full time, they have offices and stuff, but there\u2019s not really anywhere for the student researchers,\u201d said College of Engineering senator Isabelle Santini-Haddock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">All other facilities enhancement requests, which consisted of classroom furniture replacements or outlet additions, were able to be either partially or fully funded, fulfilled without funding, or put on a list of classroom updates that are handled by facilities in the summers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Feb. 12, Utah State University\u2019s Facilities Enhancement Committee, made up of members of the Academic Senate with executive vice&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":899628,"featured_media":22128496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[11070,955,15939,15940,15941],"class_list":["post-22128495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-news","tag-committee","tag-facilities","tag-facilities-enhancement-committee","tag-hper","tag-waterlab"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - 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