{"id":6815,"date":"2012-11-14T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T17:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6815"},"modified":"2012-12-29T01:28:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T06:28:49","slug":"the-puzzle-of-empty-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-puzzle-of-empty-classrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"The Puzzle Of Empty Classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/111412_1155_ThePuzzleOf1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"447\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Duke Cheston looked around his university and wondered\u2026why are so many classrooms empty for most of the day? Highlights of the article include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On average during standard school hours universities only utilize about 49% of their classrooms.<\/li>\n<li>This seems like a waste. If you could bring that up close to 100%, then you could shut down half the buildings on campus and pass the cost savings onto students.<\/li>\n<li>The trend itself is odd. College administrators can schedule classes whenever they want, and don&#8217;t have to worry about surges in demand the way restaurants do. Moreover they know exactly how many students they will have each year since there&#8217;s no shortage of college applicants.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>There are a few explanations for why this is the case:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Professors prefer to schedule classes so that they can come in late and leave early. This creates peak surges of demand.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a mismatch between demand and supply of certain types of classrooms. Budget cuts have meant that classes have become bigger, while the classrooms might have been designed for smaller class sizes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>One solution would be to charge departments for the classrooms they use \u2013 with prices rising for the most in-demand locations and times. That way they would have an incentive to schedule classes in rooms that aren&#8217;t often used.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about classroom utilization at UNC-Chapel Hill, why agricultural routes might be the main source of the problem, and other strategies for dealing with this waste over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popecenter.org\/commentaries\/article.html?id=2757\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popecenter.org\/commentaries\/article.html?id=2757\">The John William Pope Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmarksdoor.com\/mainblog\/2012\/11\/universities-build-a-lot-of-classrooms-but-use-them-infrequently.html\">Newmark&#8217;s Door<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duke Cheston looked around his university and wondered\u2026why are so many classrooms empty for most of the day? Highlights of the article include: On average during standard school hours universities only utilize about 49% of their classrooms. This seems like a waste. If you could bring that up close to 100%, then you could shut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/111412_1155_ThePuzzleOf1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6815"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7390,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions\/7390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}