All office assignments and reassignments, including those of part-time faculty must be approved by the Dean before individuals situate themselves. Building utilization decisions must involve full consultation as part of the standard procedure.

The following considerations prevail in making assignments:
1. Proprietary claims based on history and tradition will be respected in principle, but they will lose their force in practice in the face of the urgent necessity of placing people in suitable offices according to the priorities outlined below.

2. Changed responsibilities and changed College needs may require reassignment of faculty from one office to another and possibly from one building to another. Changes in the size of departments will affect their location and relocation.

3. In determining assignments, three principles guide assignment: proximity, position, and seniority:
   A. A principal goal will be to keep all members of a department in proximity, at least in the same building. However, a department may have the prerogative of declining an office assigned if it places a higher priority on allowing a senior faculty member in another department to remain in a specified office. In such instances, the faculty member in the department is assigned to the office to which the senior member was to have moved.
   B. Priority in office selection is to full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty, followed by full-time visiting faculty. These ranks are followed by full-time teaching lab assistants, part-time and emeritus faculty who are teaching and post-doctoral people supported by grants; in these cases it may be necessary to have two or three people sharing an office.
   C. Others things being equal, seniority plays an important and possibly decisive part in making office assignments.
   D. Space provided for emeritus faculty who are not teaching has the lowest priority.