Space is a serious, expensive business on college campuses. There is a saying: “Academics will fight over money and kill over space.”
Following a decade-long building boom, a crippling recession, a spike in energy prices (with further increases probable), and in some regions fierce competition for a shrinking pool of students, the stakes of managing campus space have never been higher. Students, it is often assumed, decide whether or not to attend a college on the basis of the quality and quantity of space. And many researchers expect to have their own offices or laboratories, or both.
[Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required)]
