with contemporary facilities building codes of the State, County and City, and in compliance with the requirements of the State Chancellor’s Office. The college maintains its location at 900 Fallon Street, where it supports over 70 degree and certificate programs and educational services and administrative operations. This 40-year-old campus has 19 contiguous buildings with 265 classrooms, situated within the northeastern edge of Fallon Street to its southeastern limits on Fifth Street. The campus is accessible by public transportation from AC Transit buses and the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) subway system. The Lake Merritt BART station is located one block from the north entrance. The college is in the city’s development zone, and it is conveniently located across the street from the Oakland Museum and the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center. Description of the Facilities Laney’s main complex of 517,475 square feet is an arrangement of two-story reinforced concrete and brick buildings arranged in quads around small, planted courtyards. On the ground level are most of the vocational offices, classrooms, labs, and shops; the upper level houses the majority of the general education, liberal arts, and science facilities. In 2005, Caltrans approached the college, requesting to stage construction material where the Butler Fine Arts Building was housed. In order to do this staging, Caltrans agreed to build an art building in another location and of the same size, 15,000 square feet. Caltrans paid for all but $1.2 million of the new construction. The additional 4,000 square feet for classrooms came from Measure E funds (approved by Alameda County voters in 2000). The new Fine Arts Building (AC) is located between the tennis courts and swimming pool on the Tenth Street side of campus. The new Fine Arts Building houses three additional classrooms, two drawing studios, two painting studios, two sculpture studios, and a printmaking facility. The student center, gym, theatre, and library form the boundaries of an open plaza at the center of the campus. It opens up to and looks down on this newly renovated plaza. The student center is a four-story structure, with the bookstore and supplies on the
ground level, and the cafeteria—run by the Culinary Arts Department—on the second level. Student government and school function offices occupy the third and fourth levels. The Library/Learning Resource Center is a four-story structure which houses the 80,000 book collection, the Tutorial Center, Audio-Visual Services, Instructional Media Center, study rooms, and an educational display area. This building is slated to be rebuilt with Measure A Funds during the 20092010 academic year. The library will most likely be housed on the Seventh Street side of campus where the portables for the culinary program are currently located. The nine-story Tower Building, just to the north of the open plaza, houses the Steingart Art Gallery, which was updated during Spring 2008 with new bamboo floors, floor-to-ceiling paint, new lighting, vent coverings, and a new curtain. The Tower Building also has staff and faculty mailboxes and an information booth on the first floor lobby. Student services offices are housed on floors two and three, faculty offices on floors four, five and six, and administrative offices on floors seven and eight. The top floor of the Tower houses the district’s cable television studio, which requires a receiver dish now located on the roof of the administration building (2008), and many of the college’s servers for information technology networking purposes. An LED Laney College sign was installed in March 2008 (IIIB-15). Accommodating Faculty and Students Each full-time faculty member is provided access to office space, mostly in the Tower Building. Adjunct faculty members are offered shared space on an asavailable basis. Offices range in size from 70 square feet to slightly more than 120 square feet, with the majority in the range of 70-90 square feet and shared by two faculty members. New carpeting, window coverings, HVAC, and paint are slated for 2009. Laboratory space devoted to specific program instruction is provided in many departments including art, architecture/engineering, biology, business, carpentry/wood technology, chemistry, computer information systems, cosmetology, culinary
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