Stacey Starislaw/special to the Arizona Daily Wildcat A nursing college door damaged by police gunshot stands open. The police shot open all locked doors to secure the building after Monday's shooting.

Almost as quickly as the College of Nursing was fragmented Monday by the shooting death of three of its professors, on Tuesday faculty and university officials began planning to regroup and reopen.

Next Monday, Nov. 4, has been set as a tentative date for classes to resume a normal schedule, said Dr. Raymond Woosley, vice president for health sciences.

Administration officials, including Woosley and Provost George Davis, met with dean of the nursing college Marjorie Isenberg and faculty on Tuesday to determine how students and staff will work through both the emotional and academic aftereffects of the murders.

"It's very difficult for faculty to deal with this. They are wanting to be leaned on but are finding they have to lean on others," Woosley said. "They're not ready to be victims yet."

Isenberg will be available to nursing students today in two rooms of the Arizona Health Sciences Library, just west of the College of Pharmacy. Woosley said other nursing faculty are also expected to be available to students in the library. Among the professors at the meeting, Davis said the level of enthusiasm to get back in their offices and classrooms varied person by person. Some wanted to get back as soon as the rooms are cleaned.

"Other faculty feel that the space has been so violated they are tentative about returning so soon," Davis said.

Students are now able to communicate with nursing faculty through a message board on the college's Web site, Davis said.

The UA and Tucson police departments have cleaned the rooms where assistant nursing professors Robin Rogers, Barbara Monroe and Cheryl McGaffic were shot to death by a disgruntled nursing student, Robert Stewart Flores Jr., Woosley said.

The investigation at the Col-lege of Nursing is finished, said UAPD Chief Anthony Daykin.

"On a very limited basis we have escorted people back in," Daykin said. Some students and staff have been allowed into the building to retrieve keys, cell phones and other belongings left behind while evacuating the building that morning.

Isenberg must also find three new instructors to finish out the courses taught by those killed, Davis said. Other professors and members of the nursing community have already volunteered.

"We've got three very major positions to fill. But the faculty that are here are (Isenberg's) major concern right now," Woosley said.

Repairs of 25 doors that police damaged while searching the college for the suspect and other hazards will begin today, said Steve Holland, UA director of risk management.