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She said the psychology department alone houses 30% of Pierce’s population, which poses a problem when multiple class sections will be in session in one building.

With the new MPAWE building, Belden said there wouldn’t be faculty offices. Without them, professors won’t be able to meet with students in a confidential environment, which is in violation of instructor contracts.

Belden said faculty and students were not consulted and above all, she hopes Pierce President Alexis Montevirgen takes into consideration having two buildings instead of one.

“The process is more important than anything else,” Belden said. “Any building is better than none, but we need broader campus input and it affects all of us. Taking student and staff voices into consideration is very important and I hope that process is fair and collegial.”

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Bob Martinez, former chair of mathematics and current math adjunct representative, wrote in an email that the lack of faculty input has placed a limitation on the square footage of the MPAWE building. He said this limits educational programming for students in terms of the number of classrooms and offices.

Martinez also said that department chairs should have been allowed to give input on this project.

“When chairs are not consulted, there will be false limitations on classrooms that must be used by a department for scheduling classes,” Martinez wrote. “Chairs are the experts on this.”

Moses said that in 2017 a survey was sent out to the entire campus to vote on five different proposals for the MPAWE building. She said she thought the questions themselves were flawed.

“The questions themselves didn’t make any sense,” Moses said. “The survey had five different building proposals without any background on the five proposals. They essentially gave a survey that said choose between these five choices with no context to the entire campus.” skarim.roundupnews@gmail.com

She said because of all these flaws in the survey, it didn’t yield any useful data and gave the appearance of getting input from faculty and students.

Moses added how the survey also failed to reach out to the faculty and students who would have been directly affected with the change of the MPAWE building.

“Even though all voices matter, the people who are going to be the most impacted by the decision should have greater weight to their voices and there was none of that,” Moses said.