UH Classrooms

The UH Classroom Committee - C2 - was appointed by the Office of the Provost and charged with devising plans and recommending policies to ensure the efficient and effective use of UH classrooms.

Charge to the Committee :

  1. Recommend Immediate solutions to problems students and faculty find in their classrooms.

  2. Recommend policies and strategies that lead to a systematic way in which classrooms can be maintained, refurbished, and remodeled.

  3. Review recommendations made in 1997 by the University of Houston Undergraduate Council related to UH Classrooms and propose strategies for implementation.

Committee members:

  1. Ed Apodaca, Associate Vice President, Enrollment Management
  2. John C. Butler, Associate Dean, NSM and Chair
  3. Agnes DeFranco, Assistant Professor, HRM
  4. Barbara Fasser, Executive Associate, Academic Budget
  5. Dennis Fouty, Associate Vice Chancellor, Associate Vice President, Central Computing and Telecommunications Systems
  6. Rick Kasschau, Professor, Psychology
  7. Rosalie Maddocks, Professor, Geosciences
  8. Steve Mintz, Associate Dean, HFAC
  9. Joe Schroeder, Director, University Media Services
  10. Cecil Ward, Analyst, OPPA
  11. Tom Wray, Executive Director, Plant and Operations

  12. The Whole Committee

Classroom Status

It is apparent that we are dealing with a rather broad spectrum of conditions across campus. With respect to learning environments, conditions range from woeful to conducive.
UH Classrooms - A Historical Perspective

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  1. A Memo To Provost Trueba and Vice President Boyd
    March 15, 1995. Signed before May 1, 1995. The first project (seating in AH1 and Engineering D2) was completed in December, 1995 and the second (AH 2) in December, 1996.

  2. Report of the Ad Hoc Classroom Committee
    To Provost J. Ivancevich and Vice President James Hale - October 10, 1996. The change in administration (summer, 1996) created a situation in which the Trueba and Boyd agreement was forgotten. The Ad Hoc Classroom Committee urged the Provost and the Financial Vice President to honor the Trueba and Boyd agreement.

  3. Report to Sharon O'Neil
    This report and the previous report of the Ad Hoc Classroom Committee were never acted on. The project for 1996 was completed but no funds were received for the 1997 or 1998 projects.

  4. TEACHING SPACE, ENROLLMENT DEMAND AND UNIVERSITY TIME BANDS POLICY
    A REPORT OF THE ACADEMIC OPERATIONS AND STANDARDS COMMITTEE OF UNDERGRADUATE COUNCIL, April 2, 1997 by Rosalie F. Maddocks, Chair, Robert Hill, Mario Lucchesi, William Monroe, William Munson, Sam Quintero, Shawn Russell

  5. Classroom Space Utilization, Fall Semester 1997
    The Coordinating Board

  6. Distribution of UH Auditoria by Time, Spring, 1997
    The Coordinating Board

Committee Activities

  1. The Committee will take a field trip to visit first hand the large UH classrooms on Friday, December 4, 1998.

UH Classrooms - Resources

  1. Archives of UH-Camel
    Creating and Maintaining Environments for Learning - CAMEL - is a Listserv which has been addressing issues facing learning on campus.

  2. Office of Planning and Policy Analysis
    The Fact Book On-Line - much of it anyway

  3. UH General Purpose Classrooms
    UH Media Services. Offers an opportunity to make comments about classrooms on campus.

  4. The Next Generation of Learning Management Systems
    by Don Norris, UH Seminar, May 7, 1998

  5. Smarter Classrooms
    A summary of what one consultant can provide to the University of Houston