Resolution 75
AN ACT TO
RECOMMEND BUILDING ABBREVIATIONS BE CLARIFIED TO PROVIDE EASIER WAYFINDING ON
NC STATES’ CAMPUS
Short Title:
Sponsors: Senator Webb(corresponding)
Signatories: Sen. Emeritus Joe Sevits -- SG Liaison, Inter-Residence Council
Referred to:
Version: As introduced
First
WHEREAS, Many of the current building abbreviations, used by tens of thousands of students every semester to locate classes, are unnecessarily ambiguous. This ambiguity has caused difficulty to students, resulting in confusion and class tardiness; and,
WHEREAS, These abbreviations are used by the Facilities Department and the Department of Registration and Records for building identification, and are open to some modification as evident by the differences in the codes used between those departments; and,
WHEREAS, The results of maintaining the current building abbreviations, as seen in the past several years, have not been in support of the University’s academic interests as they have unnecessarily wasted the time and energy of the Student Body; and,
WHEREAS, Improvements
in clarity to the identification of buildings that host classes and/or labs
would have a lasting benefit for the students of North Carolina State
University and with few changes made in recent years to these abbreviations,
they are well overdue for modification; now, therefore be it;
RESOLVED, that the NC State Student Senate calls upon the Department of Registration and Records to modify student schedule software to include the common names of buildings in place of the building abbreviations that are currently used; and,
RESOLVED, the we also request that these changes be made by the beginning of the 2008-2009 academic year, if this timeline is found not to be practicable, we ask that these changes be made as soon as practicable.