TCEM Department "On The Move"
Six Tourism, Conventions & Event Management Department [TCEM] faculty members will move their offices to the 1200 Waterway Building at the start of June 2008—a 1.27 mile 'trip' north from current offices in the IUPUI Physical Education/Natatorium Building. The 'space crunch' on the IUPUI campus and continued growth in student enrollment and faculty positions in the School of Physical Education and Tourism Management led to the move.
Relocating to 1200 Waterway will be TCEM faculty members Susan Alvarez, Susie Benko, Jim Bennett, Linda Brothers, Betty Jones and Kristen Woods-Norris. Remaining in the 2nd floor TCEM suite on campus will be Amanda Cecil, Yao-Yi Fu, Jinmoo Heo and Suosheng Wang. TCEM Chair Sotiris Hji-Avgoustis will maintain an office on campus and at 1200 Waterway. The office of a new TCEM faculty member , for whom a search is underway this spring, will be in the on-campus TCEM suite.
Besides offices, the TCEM area at 1200 Waterway will include a small conference room and kitchen area [can accommodate TCEM wine classes], a small reception area, and access to a larger conference room shared by the other IUPUI building occupant, the POLIS Center.
On April 18, the TCEM faculty will meet to discuss potential impacts of the move and to develop strategies for operating in a two-location environment. It is anticipated that one of the vacated TCEM campus offices will serve, at least temporarily, as a place for 'satellite' TCEM faculty to 'land' while on campus.
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