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Good afternoon!
The University Center at the University of Houston is in the process of renovating/expanding our facility. One of the recent topics of conversation for our steering committee was what we intend to name our meeting rooms in our new conference center.
I wanted to reach out to the community for two reasons:
1) If applicable, what process does your building use to name its facilities (other than development opportunities/naming rights)? If you have a Policy Board, does it go through them? Is it an executive decision? And so on.
2) What are the stories behind your meeting room names? Did you name them after University leaders, geographic aspects of your area, or something completely different? If you could just describe your names even, that would be great.
Thanks so much in advance! Happy Holidays.
--Micah Kenfield
UC Program Coordinator
U. Houston
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Joined: 4/17/2007
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Micah, When we went under renovations and additions in the early 2000's we needed to rename all of our meeting rooms. Frankly, prior to that, they had direction based names... like "The North Room" was located on the... you guessed it... North end of the building. Or worse, it was named for it's function, like "The Ballroom" which was exactly what you would expect.
So, in several sitting around having a beer after work, or meetings with the Student Union Board of Governors, we decided to take into account "who we are" in naming the rooms, so that students would be able to connect themselves to not only the Student Center, but to the history of the University. . So "Blue and White" "Clocktower" "1949", "Devils Den" are our school colors, our main campus building feature, the year we were founded, and our mascot. We also realized that four of our "principals" prior to presidents, had nothing named for them on campus. As it turns out, in aligning the names of these people, we also spelled out the name of our programming board! "Sprague", "Carleton", "Philbrick" and "Camp" also mimicked Student Center Program Council or "SCPC". SCPC is now gone, but the name lives on! Belling Gallery is named for the artist whose WPA era mural we saved from the attic of the Administration building. Alumni Hall, our greatest hall, compliments our largest resource... our Alumni. We also named lounges according to our history... Wells Street Lounge recalls the street that used to cut through campus but is not a water featured, stone pathed green area on campus. CCSC Lounge, TCC Lounge, and Normal School Lounge remember our past names as Teachers College of Connecticut and Central Connecticut State College as well.
We have marked all of the rooms and lounges with detailed history about the above. Attached is a picture that shows how each room is marked. And also a timeline of the university that compliments this information.
Hope this helps! Happy New Year!
W. 'Otis' Mamed, MS. Director, CCSU Student Center
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