At the present time, space is also a serious problem on campus and places where people can meet each other are limited. Each tenure track faculty member has a private office in which to meet with students. However, the provisions made for part-time offices are much less adequate. The number of available offices for part-time faculty has decreased as other units of the campus have grown and the space available for distribution has stayed constant. COAS has eleven offices dedicated to adjunct faculty, COBA has two offices and COE has one.
Adjuncts also use the offices of faculty who are on leave or sabbaticals.
This limits their accessibility to students except during formal office hours and discourages them from staying on campus beyond their scheduled class periods and office hours. In fact, tenure track faculty and staff alike regularly meet with each other or with students in the Dome, which has become the de facto meeting place for much of the campus. Here, students interact with one another as well as with faculty and staff. Faculty and staff also use the Dome to meet each other and to hold informal meetings. In 1998-1999, the space outside the Dome was covered over to create the Dome Terrace, which allowed for preserving the Dome's seating capacity in wet weather, and added 200 seats.