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Image: Millennial Initiative photograph
The Millennial Initiative at Western is designed both to promote exciting new educational opportunities for faculty and students and to expand the university's partnership opportunities with the private sector. It strengthens Chancellor Bardo's vision of the university as an educational community committed to growth and prosperity throughout the region.

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Image: Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University
The $30 million Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University is an exciting new cultural arts and art education destination for Western North Carolina and the surrounding region. Set between the Great Smoky and Blue Ridge mountains, the center combines state-of-the-art educational opportunities for students and instructors with a fresh and inspiring venue for world-class performers and artists.

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Suite 25 Implementation

 

Our Mission: To utilize time and space at WCU to create optimal learning opportunities for our students

 

What is Suite 25?

  • A trio of three space management tools that allow for the tracking and scheduling of academic and non-academic spaces on our campus
  • Resource 25 is the space management arm of the product that stores room and space data for the campus.
  • Schedule 25 is the academic scheduling algorithm that takes academic classes passed to it from Banner and schedules academic rooms for class meetings.
  • X25 is the reporting tool that provides management-level data on the utilization of campus spaces

We are off to a good start in our plans to use SUITE 25 for our space scheduling needs.  Over the summer administrative assistants have worked diligently to identify attributes of each and every space on campus.  The deans were recently involved in an information session concerning the new processes of assigning spaces to courses.  The September workshop for department heads will focus on the new scheduling and space assignment process and training opportunities for all stakeholders are being planned for the fall semester.  More updates will be provided as we progress through this process.

You can track progress of Suite 25 at http://planning.wcu.edu/R25/R25_links.htm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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