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Team # 463 -- Behrend College Creating Adult - Friendly Classrooms
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College

October 2001

Objective

Create "adult-friendly" classrooms appropriate for graduate students.

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Team Membership

• John Burke, Sponsor
• Bob Light, Leader/Facilitator
• Mary Ellen Bayuk, Member
• John Fizel, Member

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Results Achieved to Date

• The goal of this team was to create several "adult-friendly" classrooms appropriate for graduate students.
  The college registrar added a fourth requirement - each room must have a capacity of at least forty-eight.
  Among the requirements identified by MBA students for such a classroom were:
  - increased access to the Web;
  - portability of furniture to facilitate a team approach; and
  - comfortable (three-hour) chairs with book racks.
  
  The result of the team's efforts is a recommendation to the provost for the development of two adult-friendly classrooms: Academic 43 and 59.
  
  Cost per room would include:
  
  - Desks: Einstein ELD 30 special Penn State blue laminate $2,800
  - Chairs: Perry PRYP w/bookrack 6,300
  - Wireless service 1,600
  
  TOTAL $10,700
  
  Cost for two rooms would be $21,400.

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