Gates, who is serving on a special committee of arts units including representatives from Meany Hall and the University s museums seeking improved signage at UW, with special but not exclusive emphasis on signage in the underground parking beneath Red Square. Gates said she will have a compilation of what arts units want and need in the way of signage by the February 23 rd council meeting. She emphasized that, though there are areas of heightened concern, the entire campus is in need of improved signage. Aylward said she would be very interested in hearing a presentation on any future plans for the Health Sciences. As she has stressed in previous council meetings, her lab space in Radiology is pathetically limited.
Office space is all but non-existent, and there is barely space for housing necessary equipment.
Aylward knows a great many colleagues who are similarly inconvenienced, though this crisis in truth goes far beyond inconvenience. Many faculty simply do not have the minimal space they need for equipment, for shelving, and for office space, to say nothing of lab space in which to do their own work and in which to teach research assistants. Bramhall, from Anesthesiology, said problems of adequate space in Health Sciences can seriously affect not only recruitment and retention, but can even affect career directions, research faculty who do not have requisite space in which to do their work being redirected into clinical work, as an extreme example. Schaufelberger said Helen Remick, Assistant Provost and Equal Employment Officer, will address the council on the issue of access for handicaps on campus. Coulter said that enhancement of lab and office space will have to come from some other physical location, such as south Lake Union.