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CAMPUS AND AREA
University Dally Kansan, April 19, 1985
Med Center shuffling space for OT transfer
By GREG LARSON Staff Reporter
Finding space for the department of occupational therapy at the University of Kansas Medical Center is like finding a hotel room in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., during spring break — someone must check out before anyone moves in.
Occupational therapy is one of 12 departments in the School of Allied Health. The department plans to move from the Lawrence campus to the Kansas City, Kan., campus in July.
Unoccupied space at the Med Center is rare, and offices of some Med Center faculty will be moved during May to provide space for the occupational therapy offices, according to Roger Lambson, vice chancellor for institutional research and planning.
Lambson said yesterday that the offices for occupational therapy would be in Hinch Hall, where some faculty offices for the School of Nursing were located.
NURSING FACULTY OFFICES will be moved to Eleanor Taylor Hall, Lambson said. The rearrangement will consolidate the allied health and nursing faculties.
James Cooney, dean of allied health, said the department would move during the summer, when
occupational therapy classes were not in session.
Occupational therapy students who are juniors this year will finish their schooling on the Lawrence campus. Freshmen and sophomores will continue the program at the Kansas City campus. All students who enter the program after this semester will attend classes in Kansas City.
Occupational therapy faculty will split time between the Lawrence and Kansas City campuses until all classes are moved to Kansas City, Cooney said.
Lambson said the site for occupational therapy workshops had not been opened.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY'S move to Hinch Hall will require little or no renovation, Lambson said.
Proposals have been made to locate the workshops in the basement of Robinson Hall, which is designated for use. Lambson said.
Yesterday, Lambson met with the library committee at the Med Center to discuss the possible site.
Prompt action in finding a site for the workshops is not necessary, Cooney said, because no workshop classes have been scheduled for the fall semester.
Classrooms for the occupational therapy students have been reserved for the fall semester and no construction will be needed, Lambson said.
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