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Standard VII – Facilities, Equipment and Resources

7.1 The teaching and patient care facilities and equipment must be appropriate to fulfill the mission, goals and objectives of the program. Overview of Facility The building has 18 floors above grade, including a mezzanine between the 3rd and 4th floors. Below grade it has a basement mezzanine (lower lobby), basement, sub-basement and partial sub-sub basement. There is a total area of 297,000 gross square feet of which 189,019 is net assignable square feet. This is broken down by function as follows: Instructional 16,206 sf Research 16,975 sf Clinical Space 54,722 sf Information Services 5,337 sf Library 11,895 sf Assembly/Exhibition 13,984 sf Student Activity 7,506 sf Administration (Optometry) 12,390 sf Administration (SUNY Central) 9,957 sf College Services 7,279 sf Building Services 32,768 sf Classrooms, laboratories and clinic space exist that are sufficient to support the professional program in optometry, graduate programs, residency programs, continuing education, and research. The four patient care floors include approximately 92 examination rooms and a centralized imaging center. A portion of a fifth floor will be added when a new 5,000 sf Center for Pediatric Eye Care is completed on the 10 th floor in 2019. There are three lecture halls outfitted with state-of-the-art audiovisual capacities (two on first floor with a capacity of 105 each and one on second floor with a capacity of 94) and an auditorium (seating capacity 242) that is similarly outfitted. Seminar rooms and lecture halls have been enlarged and renovated. Fully equipped teaching laboratories (refraction/procedures, geometrical and visual optics, ophthalmic optics, vision science, anatomy, microbiology/histology and simulation) are primarily situated on floors 2, 3M, 14, 15, and 16. Research facilities are located on the 8 th , 14 th , 15, 16 th and 17 th floors, with a biological research facility on the 17 th floor. The University Eye Center (UEC) is situated on floors 5, 6, 7 and 8 with its administrative offices on floor 10. The library is on the 4 th floor. Some faculty offices are on the clinic floors, and are primarily located on floors 9, 10 ,11, 14, 15 and 17. The 9 th floor is home to Office of Administration and Finance, the 11 th floor to Student Affairs and International Programs and the 12 th floor to the Offices of the President, Academic Affairs and Institutional Advancement. Various SUNY administrative offices, including the metropolitan New York City branch of the SUNY Welcome Center (student recruitment), are situated on the 18 th floor. A summary of space allocation in the building is given in Appendix VII- 1 .

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