What Facilities can do
Replace worn or broken furniture from stock, reconfigure a classroom to a different standard layout, add a height-adjustable desk for an accommodation, or mount a display. Custom builds and purchases go through a longer procurement path.
Constraints
Every room has a fire-code occupancy and required clear paths to exits; a layout that violates those is declined. Accessibility-driven changes are prioritized. Personal space heaters, mini-fridges outside approved areas, and tapestry-style wall coverings are common denials on safety grounds.
In and around Porter Falls
Day-to-day life at Porter runs between Founders Union, the residence halls on the south quad and North Campus across the Riverfront Trail. The Porter Loop shuttle and a compact footprint mean most students can get anywhere on campus in under fifteen minutes on foot.
The practical details
Routine: A broken chair, a missing whiteboard, a burned-out fixture — submit a work order; a few business days. Layout or furniture swap: A request form with a reason (class size, accessibility, pedagogy); reviewed for fire code, egress, and inventory. Not DIY: Don't move heavy furniture between rooms yourself or bring in personal furniture that blocks egress or fails fire code. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Dean of Students Office (Founders Union, Room 200). Call (715) 555–0182 or email deanofstudents@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.