THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence :

Office of
The Chancellor February 12, 1940

TO DEPARTMENT HEADS:

At a recent Senate meeting Chancellor Malott announced that
he would appoint a committee to make a survey of the use of University
buildings, with special emphasis on the problem of office space. That
committee, the personnel of which is listed below, finds after inspecting
classrooms and studying the class schedule that additional office space
can be secured only be releasing rooms now used for classes.

A study of the class schedules for both semesters of the current
year showed that between 1:30 and 4:30 the lecture rooms were unused 709
hours a week in the fall and 720 hours a week in the spring. The committee
found in addition that 309 hours a week in the fall and 315 hours a week
in the spring were free for 3-hour classes meeting Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday
forenoons.

In order to determine the number of rooms that might conveniently
be released from class use, the committee is asking that you redistribute
your current lecture classes on two bases, using the attached survey forms
for reporting. On Form 1 rearrange the schedule to utilize to capacity as
many rooms as necessary, all day five days a week until 4:30 p. m. On Form 2
follow the same principle and in addition utilize each room, not otherwise
in use on Tuesday and Thursday, for 3-hour classes meeting Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday mornings. .

Your surveys will be studied carefully by the committee and a re-
port made to the Chincellor to indicate how much, if any, additional office
spice can be secured without imposing inconvenient class arrangements on
any department. No change of any sort is contemplated during the current
semester.

Please return your survey forms to the secretary of the committee
by February 21. Your prompt cooperation will be a great help to the committee
in the study of a major University problem.

Sincerely yours,

E, B. STOUFFER
PAUL B. LAWSON
RAYMOND NICHOLS, Secretary