(A)       Purpose. The university strives to provide a save and secure environment and to meet the educational and professional needs of students and employees. Toward this end, these procedures establish open and closed periods for buildings, provide for extension of open periods, and prescribe conditions under which persons may use closed facilities.

(B)       Operational procedures.

(1)       Non-academic buildings. Open and closed periods for all non-academic buildings shall be regulated by the building curator.

(2)       Academic buildings.

(a)       All academic buildings are closed from eleven p.m. to seven a.m., Monday through Friday, and all weekend hours unless opened by request of the building curator, scheduling office, conference bureau, college of continuing studies, or other authorized university official. This schedule is based upon the normal use requirements.

(b)       It is permissible for a facility curator to open a building during the regularly scheduled closed periods for departmental use only, providing he or she assumes responsibility for the security of the building during that time.

(c)        In his or her absence, the building curator may appoint a temporary building curator.

(d)       A university or university-contracted employee may use a closed building under the following conditions:

(I)         The employee has the permission of the building curator.

(II)        University-contracted employee is engaged in the performance of his or her job.

(III)       The employee displays an academic building access authorization card and, if employed by the university, possesses a valid Kent state university identification card.

(e)       A student may use a closed building under the following conditions:

(I)         The student has the permission of the building curator, and department/school chairperson where appropriate.

(II)        The student displays an academic building access authorization card and possesses a valid Kent state university identification card.

(f)         The academic building access authorization card shall include the name of the building, the name and social security number of the person authorized to use the building during closed hours, the effective and expiration dates for the authorization, and the signature of the building curator.

(g)       No facilities may be utilized for events after one-thirty a.m.

Effective: June 1, 2007
Prior Effective Dates: May 16, 1988; October 3, 2005