Future still uncertain for Tabard Inn
Conrad Clevlen
Issue date: 3/27/08 Section: News
NDNU's student lounge, Tabard Inn, is still in danger of becoming office space.
The search continues for a facility to accommodate the Intensive Study program's future employees, including a human service's associate program director and a full time advisor analyst.
Intensive Studies has added 12 more students to their program for the start of the second spring term, pushing them over 200 students, according to Dr. Barbara Caulley. While the Intensive Studies program is growing, available office space is hard to come by here on campus.
A few staff members have anonymously suggested that the annexation of Tabard Inn could be avoided by doubling up part-time faculty members, who are only on campus a few days a week, in a single office.
In order to solve this space problem, NDNU has created a space committee.
Mary Haesloop, a member of the committee, said, "The space committee was formed to establish perimeters on how space is allocated. We hope to establish a more formal process and plan in allocating space to staff and faculty."
Some other alternatives to help the Intensive Studies program find office space for their future employees was using the St. Joseph's office facilities or using a quad apartment in New Hall.
"We tried to turn Tabard Inn around this semester but no one is showing up," said Neda Mehran, manager of Tabard Inn. "Tabard Inn is supposed to be a place for all students to go and we only get night students and graduate students in the evenings,"
Also, with the Café open later, Tabard Inn is fighting an uphill battle. The café provides a larger selection of food and provides evening students with a place to lounge in between classes or during breaks.
"I don't blame admin-istration for what they're considering because Tabard is not being utilized," Mehran said.
The search continues for a facility to accommodate the Intensive Study program's future employees, including a human service's associate program director and a full time advisor analyst.
Intensive Studies has added 12 more students to their program for the start of the second spring term, pushing them over 200 students, according to Dr. Barbara Caulley. While the Intensive Studies program is growing, available office space is hard to come by here on campus.
A few staff members have anonymously suggested that the annexation of Tabard Inn could be avoided by doubling up part-time faculty members, who are only on campus a few days a week, in a single office.
In order to solve this space problem, NDNU has created a space committee.
Mary Haesloop, a member of the committee, said, "The space committee was formed to establish perimeters on how space is allocated. We hope to establish a more formal process and plan in allocating space to staff and faculty."
Some other alternatives to help the Intensive Studies program find office space for their future employees was using the St. Joseph's office facilities or using a quad apartment in New Hall.
"We tried to turn Tabard Inn around this semester but no one is showing up," said Neda Mehran, manager of Tabard Inn. "Tabard Inn is supposed to be a place for all students to go and we only get night students and graduate students in the evenings,"
Also, with the Café open later, Tabard Inn is fighting an uphill battle. The café provides a larger selection of food and provides evening students with a place to lounge in between classes or during breaks.
"I don't blame admin-istration for what they're considering because Tabard is not being utilized," Mehran said.
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