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"Redefining Space: Embracing Unified Facilities Data Standards"
Author: Don Merritt, University of Central Florida
Date: January/February 2024

What is a classroom, and who supports it? One of our historical challenges in educational facilities to answering this question is a continuing failure to universally use the same definitions for “classroom” or “support staff.” Higher education audiovisual and information technology support teams have had a longstanding conversation regarding the appropriate ratio of support staff to classroom spaces. Institutional comparisons of support and spaces are difficult because local space descriptions and definitions do not translate to other institutions. A national standard space definition lexicon does exist in FICM. We can all leverage it for inter-institutional comparisons and reporting. Although FICM definitions do not cover all our spaces’ definitions nuances (or politics), they do provide a foundation for building more accurate definitions and future reporting.

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