Justice Studies - Department of Chemistry - San Jose State University

students and advisement. Our faculty advisors are overwhelmed with student advisees, andstudents get variable levels of support as a result. The department’s functioning as a whole, andthe students’ academic experience, would be greatly enhanced by such an investment, whichwould aid in retention, and shorten the time to graduation for many of our students. Ideally, thisperson could also function to lend administrative support to the internship program, whichrequires significant staffing and coordination, and could help oversee the writing program, interms of increasing the accessibility of JS 100W classes and ensuring that we have sufficientnumbers of sections to serve our students.6.3 Goals and PlansSpace issues: Despite the large and robust size of our general program (in students and faculty),we have a TOTAL allocation of space of just over 2300 square feet that serves the JS program(excluding forensics, described below), which includes all staff areas; storage, equipment, andcopying areas; department conference room; and faculty office space. Actual faculty officespace is comprised of 5 singles in MH and BT (one of which is substandard in size at 96 squarefeet), 1 double that must be used as a single due to ADA compliance issues for a disabled fulltimefaculty member, and 2 doubles. Additionally, three former storage spaces have beenconverted into part-time faculty space. At this point we have nowhere to house our incomingfaculty in Fall 2008, and we have run out of room for storage and equipment, especially since wehave lost all of our former storage space to accommodate part-time faculty. Thus, additionaloffice and storage space is very high priority for the department: at a minimum, additional officespace is needed for two incoming full-time faculty in Fall 2008, and at least 300 square feet ofstorage space.The Forensic Science program, which began development in 2002 at the request of the formerprovost, Marshall Goodman, is housed in two spaces—a 336 square foot office/ equipment roomand a 392 square foot laboratory that is very outdated and in need of renovation. The program iscurrently staffed by one tenure track faculty member and a part time lecturer. Despite itsinterdisciplinary curriculum, this program is at base an applied hard science program, and isexpected to have lab and resource allocations that are equivalent to those in the sciences in orderto achieve accreditation. The current allocation is not sufficient, and allows for no growth for theprogram itself. The program director can no longer accept the many equipment donations he isoffered because there is no room to house more instrumentation; there is insufficient space in thelab to allow students in the forensics course to complete their lab work at the same time; there isnot enough room in the office to add the new faculty member next year who will need her/hisown specialized equipment and lab space; and the size and quality of the space currently preventthe program from achieving initial accreditation.The deficiency in JS’s space allocation across the two programs may be the single largestimpediment to our continued success. Despite ever-increasing student demand, we cannotcontinue to hire new faculty to restore the balance of our full-time/part-time ratio, much less planfor growth and expansion, when we have no place to house new people and their workspacefurnishings. Furthermore, our general program faculty is now split between two distantbuildings—three of our FT faculty members who serve as major advisors are currently housedacross campus on the 5th floor of the Business Tower, while the remainder are in MacQuarrie29