Office Space Policy

The department strives to provide desk space for all students. Assignments are made based mainly on seniority, with the few private offices reserved for PhD students actively working on their dissertations. All other space is shared. We currently have space in several locations: H-Wing (private), T-Wing, and E-Wing  (all shared).

Each student is assigned a desk with a computer. T-wing and H-wing occupants are also assigned a key for their locking storage bins.

The Student Services Counselor will ask students each summer/autumn about their office preferences, which will be taken into account to the extent possible. Final assignment of space will be made by the Graduate Program Coordinator's Office.

The policies regarding office space are:

  1. Students may not switch office space without permission from the Student Services Counselor.

  2. Students may not move Biostat furniture or equipment, including any computer equipment without permission.

  3. Biostatistics student office space is for the use of Biostatistics students only.

  4. Students may not exchange office (or other department) keys when they change offices. All keys must be turned in or picked up from the receptionist, who maintains the records of whom keys are checked out to.

  5. Students who have graduated must clean out their office and turn in their keys no later than one week after the end of their graduation quarter.

  6. Students who have filed a warrant to graduate in a specific quarter must notify the Student Services Counselor if they do not then graduate that quarter no later than one week before the next quarter begins. Failure to do so may result in loss of office space.

  7. Students should make every effort to treat office space as a work space rather than a social space, and to treat office mates with courtesy. If conflicts arise that students are unable to resolve by themselves, they may inform the Student Services Counselor who will try to find a solution.

  8. Department staff occasionally need access to offices on short (or no) notice to perform inventories or repair equipment. Staff will always knock before entering, and will be respectful of student space and will not touch/move personal belongings without permission (unless they have clearly been abandoned after a student has graduated). If staff need to enter student office space for other reasons (such as showing space to potential students), they will give occupants advance notice.

  9. Students who do not make regular use of their office space may be asked to vacate their office.

  10. Concurrent degree students (those who have home departments other than Biostat) will have the lowest priority for space.