CAMPUS LIFE

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UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS

• CAMPUS LIFE
• MASTER PLAN
• Recreational Facilities
• December 8, 2004

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Focus Group Findings

• What are your impressions of on-campus
  recreation?
• Students feel that the SRC provides the
  necessities and
• meets basic needs
• Certain parts of Patty Center feel off limits
  to recreating
• students
• Ice rink
• Hours of availability
• Maintenance
• Intramurals success!
• Outdoor Adventures is a valuable resource to
  the campus
• Alaska experience
• Strong Interest/Low Usage

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• What aspects of on-campus recreation could be
  improved?
• Information pipeline
• No website
• Call SRC directly
• OA lack of visibility
• Knowledge beyond the basics
• Recreation Classes Lack of Awareness
• Staffing
• Professional staff Need More
• Formal staff training
• Inconsistency
• Facilities
• Ice rink Support space/Cleanliness/Ice time
• SRC Additional weight and fitness
  multi-purpose
• space
• Additional programming personal training,
  class

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Community Forum

• UAF Ice Arena is the Universitys community
  contact point
• Reflects the UAF campus as a whole
• At the moment is creating poor perceptions of
  the
• University
• Facility is considered to be part of the
  Fairbanks
• community
• In general there is not enough ice/ice time
  available in the
• local market
• People will continue to use UAF ice facility
  because
• ice in this town is at a premium
• General consensus is that UAF ice facility is
  the worst in
• town
• Ice staff is not a visible presence
• Staff visibility creates ownership

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Community Forum

• Its great to hire students but and additional
  presence of
• professional staff will enhance the
  experience.
• Improved staff Improved experience
• Student staff is under prepared
• Additional zam training
• Opportunity to train students off site ice
  sits idle at
• Carlson Center from 8 am 4 pm weekdays
• Cleanliness and general maintenance is lacking
• Zam schedule
• Edging
• Gravel in traveled pathways
• Gaps in boards
• Roughest ice in town

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Community Forum

• Locker rooms/support spaces
• Referee changing areas
• Separate mens and womens facilities
• Shower rooms (currently only SRC is available)
• Ski trails/walking trails connections
• Safety
• Convenience
• Create user friendly spaces and access to
  encourage
• community participation (i.e parking)

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• Final Thoughts
• Rink should not go away!!
• Need to address problems of the facility that
  can be
• immediately changed/implemented
• New facility is not the solution Patty Ice
  has the potential
• to be great (minor tweaks)
• User friendly community participation