Written by Aerial Whiting<\/p>\n
Public Safety converted 18 faculty parking spots on the north side of the Thornton Education Center into student parking during Thanksgiving break.<\/p>\n
The change came about as a result of feedback from students who said those faculty spots usually remained vacant, according to Public Safety Director Craig Russell. After studying the parking lot for a time, Russell, as well as Mel Sansom, vice president of finance, and Wayne Westerholm, manager of parking and transportation services, concluded more student parking could be added.<\/p>\n
Public Safety conducted its study to determine whether there would be a negative impact on the faculty and staff if they lost parking by the Thornton.<\/p>\n
“What we try to do with parking is we’re always trying to balance the needs of all of the different groups on campus that have a demand for parking,” Russell said. “In this case it’s balancing the needs between the faculty and staff \u2013 which it was originally a faculty and staff area \u2013 and balancing the needs of the students. \u2026 We felt like that was a change that we could make that would help the students, and it really wouldn’t create much in the way of problems for faculty\/staff, either.”<\/p>\n
Students discovered the extra parking almost immediately.<\/p>\n
“Wayne [Westerholm] said that he checked [the parking lot] over the weekend, and already the students kind of figured it out and already filled it up,” Russell said.<\/p>\n
Although the change created more spaces for students, it did not come about because there was insufficient space on campus for student vehicles beforehand.<\/p>\n
“Right now we enjoy the blessing of having enough parking spaces for every registered car on campus,” Russell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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