Sometimes I despise the technophobic administration at this place.
Apparently, our Nursing department demanded more space for their expanding program, and every one of their proposals for more space involved usurping a public computer lab. The administrative board, noting how much the program was expanding (and collecting revenue for the college) decided to not only give the nursing program our biggest, most used, and most social lab (and the place students hung out the most on campus), but all of our offices as well for our department, determing the IT staff should all split up into each building, since there was no other place for our department to go together.
So, not only will our public computer volume be reduced by about 1/3 overall, we'll all be at least one building apart from the network backbone, unable to function as a cohesive department without conference calls, group IMs and scheduled meetings, and lose our entire hardware work space, with half the office space, giving us nowhere to store OR work on hardware. Administration made this decision without even getting input from our department, as our admin rep basically made the decision without informing us.