General assignment classrooms and instructional labs should be located in the central core of campus. Undergraduate courses will take precedence in this area. Regardless of size and configuration, new classroom environments must be flexible to accommodate various teaching methods. This includes the physical layouts of these spaces as well as furniture, equipment, technologies, atmosphere, etc. Instruction methods and delivery will change even during a single block of time.
Flexibility is essential.
In many programs, lecture hall delivery will be replaced with a structure that includes a large lecture combined with smaller break-out groups for classroom and discussions, as well as the possibility of smaller laboratory sections. The projections balance the demography of Colorado high school graduates with planned programmatic expansions. Undergraduate and graduate enrollment projections are based upon broad disciplines for more efficient space planning. Graduate enrollments will not increase at the rate at which the undergraduate enrollments will. The total level of graduate enrollments will remain relatively similar to today's enrollments, although the distribution may change.