The Motor of Campus: Roles and Perspectives of Facilities Management Employees at Kalamazoo College

Abstract

Facilities Management is the backbone of Kalamazoo College. The employees who work in this department maintain and improve the college everyday. Without these employees the college would simply not be able to function. In my own experiences prior to this summer, I rarely interacted with Facilities Management employees. In an effort to combine my academic interests in Sociology and my curiosity about the ongoing life of the college and who makes it function, I embarked on this project. Based on my reflections from working full-time at Facilities Management in the summer of 2012, this paper examines several different themes that exist and are prevalent in how Facilities Management operates.