Policy about getting access to space

[kartik]

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@harrisong: Hey is there a minister in charge of like policies about getting access to spaces and stuff? I have an issue I’d like to raise.

@jean-salac: @ks ?

@ks: Hey @harrisong, yes, I work with @mjfranklin on Space issues. What do you want to raise?

@harrisong: So IDK if you’ve encountered this but the way access to spaces like offices and skype rooms is controlled doesn’t really work. It needs to go through an admin office outside of the department, which doesn’t really provide the kind of flexibility that’s needed for things like visitors. In my case, I was technically on leave this year, so I could do a thing at the law school. I had had access to my office throughout the entire period. However when that ended my card stopped working without anyone telling me this was going to happen. This happened on Monday. Despite Nita and other people’s best efforts, I’m still not able to get in to my office.

I know that this isn’t the only issue that people have had with this arrangement - things like post-grad/pre-doctoral research assistants and people visiting for a few days. It’s creating a lot of unnecessary work for the admins and seriously inconveniences a lot of other people.

Posting here since I do not have clear answers right now, and it will be lost on Slack. I will get back to this.

If others have faced similar issues, please add them here so we have sufficient student voices to get things improved.

[kartik]

Hey @tdobes, there was some discussion in the first town hall in the new building to figure out if there was a way to see who has access to which rooms (Is there a way to find out what I can get into with my keycard?), do you know if this is possible to do with some sort of collaboration with the “outside admin”?

I understand it doesn’t solve the problem raised by @harrisong in the OP, but more information about access to rooms is so much better than surprises.

[kameranis]

In order to see a complete list of room access visit http://followme.uchicago.edu/student/access_view.php

*Cross post from A Guide to CS Infrastructure