For new faculty and staff at Utah Valley State College, there's hardly a place to unpack books and a few knickknacks unless they can find a spare closet.

"We would like to have the space back simply because right now it is really tight to even find space for classrooms," said Doug Warner, UVSC's associate vice president for finance.

In a version of the agreement passed by UVSC's board of trustees last week, MATC will have to move out of the second floor of its current Orem campus and find a new home because UVSC needs the space for offices. MATC classes will still be held on the first floor.

"We understand why we have to leave," said MATC spokesman Mark Middlebrook. "They need the space just as much we do."

Warner said the agreement still has to be passed by the MATC board, but looks as if it will become a reality.

UVSC's expanding student population has created many space-related concerns.

"We have a real space crisis on campus," said UVSC President William Sederburg earlier this year. "We're out of faculty office space. Our classrooms are totally booked between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m."

Linda Makin, UVSC's director of budgets, said UVSC had funded 40 new faculty positions and 66 new staff positions for the next school year.

Middlebrook said 17 employees that currently occupy the second floor of the Orem building will be dividing and moving July 1 -- the same day UVSC becomes Utah Valley University -- to either the MATC's Spanish Fork campus or American Fork campus. Middlebrook said staff will divide based on where they live.

"The students will not even know anything has changed," Middlebrook said. "We will just do a little bit more of phone conversation."

He said he hopes the Legislature will approve a new MATC building at Thanksgiving Point and in Orem in the next five years.