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Appendix F8: Facilities Requests
Audience: Facilities Committee, Administrators
Purpose: To be read and responded to by Facilities Committee.
Background: Following the completion of the 2012 Chabot College Facility Master Plan, the Facilities
Committee (FC) has begun the task of re-prioritizing Measure B Bond budgets to better align with current
needs. The FC has identified approximately $18M in budgets to be used to meet capital improvement
needs on the Chabot College campus. Discussion in the FC includes holding some funds for a year or two
to be used as match if and when the State again funds capital projects, and to fund smaller projects that
will directly assist our strategic goal. The FC has determined that although some of the college's greatest
needs involving new facilities cannot be met with this limited amount of funding, there are many smaller
pressing needs that could be addressed. The kinds of projects that can be legally funded with bond
dollars include the "repairing, constructing, acquiring, equipping of classrooms, labs, sites and facilities."
Do NOT use this form for equipment or supply requests.
Instructions: Please fill in the following as needed to justify your requests. If requesting more than one
facilities project, please rank order your requests.
Brief Title of Request (Project Name): Building 2000 Student Learning Center
Building/Location: Building 2000 (currently rooms 2003/2005)
Description of the facility project. Please be as specific as possible.
If Building 2000 will not be torn down and replaced with another faculty office building, we would like
to use a portion of the available money to provide an attractive, open student learning space, mirroring
the very successful new spaces created in building 1800 with glass partitions and comfortable chairs
and tables. We propose that the interior wall presently opposite the Dean’s office be replaced with
glass, and the inside of the 2003/2005 area be carpeted, fitted with two large whiteboard walls (at the
East and West ends of the room, replacing the current chalkboards), equipped with a data projector
and instructor computer station, and furnished with chairs and tables similar to what are being used in
1800, along with a couch and easy chair arrangement.
What educational programs or institutional purposes does this equipment support?
The Science/Math division has emphasized the STEM pathway with all of our scheduling, curriculum,
and collegial work; creating an attractive study space for our STEM majors outside the Dean’s office
would further demonstrate our commitment to these students, encouraging their collaboration and
social interaction outside of class. We could use the space for club meetings, student presentations,
team meetings, subdivision meetings, and other special events, and remaining hours leave the room
available for students to use for studying.
This room would directly benefit all STEM majors, as well as our MESA program students, NIH Bridges
students, Engineering Club, Biology Club, Physics Club, and Math Club students, and our faculty.
Briefly describe how your request relates specifically to meeting the Strategic Plan Goal and to
enhancing student learning?
We believe that providing our STEM students with locations where they can study and talk together
will lead to improved retention and student success, as well as increased student satisfaction with
Chabot as an institution that cares whether its students are successful.
We have seen in just a little over one month of use that the study areas in 1800 are tremendously
successful. We believe offering another similar space in 2000 will be equally successful, and attract
students in Biology and Math who might otherwise not visit building 1800’s facilities.