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Labels: campus sustainability, climate change, sustainability

Labels: affordability, financial crisis, NAICU, privates, resource and budget planning, tuition

"How do colleges cut costs, retain quality and somehow convince the public that they are good stewards of resources? None claimed to have the answers to those questions, but it’s fair to say they’re all looking for them."

Labels: financial crisis, NACUBO, resource and budget planning

"Burt Hill was approached to design the new 135,000-sq.-ft. Dorrance H. Hamilton Building, an educational facility that would create an integrated classroom setting in order to foster a team environment among students. During initial discussions, the school strongly emphasized its need for campus identity. For years, the urban Philadelphia grounds had been scattered throughout several city blocks, which made it difficult to unite the campus. The lack of campus identity also made it hard to establish a relationship with the neighboring community. It was clear that the new space would need to be aesthetically pleasing, as well as functional."

Labels: architecture, facilities planning, master planning, medical school, town and gown

"This experiment reinforced our assumption that the successful implementation of communication channels should always be embedded in the physical organization of space. Choreographing attention is physical as much as it is cerebral. Digital backchannels have to be designed into space, not in spite of it."

Labels: academic planning, facilities planning, interior design, it, learning space design, online learning, technology, virtual

"The U.S. Department of Energy is still in the process of choosing the projects that will receive loans and deciding how other newly available subsidies will be spent. But the potential windfall is already jump-starting plans for wind farms in the Midwest, massive solar plants in the deserts of southwest Nevada and southeastern California, and geothermal power plants in the Northwest."

Labels: climate change, energy, federal, policy, research, solar, stimulus, sustainability

Labels: academic planning, information technology, it, learning, online learning

"that individuals could choose which semester-long class to save, and then get their name attached to it . . . . But it raised questions with trustees (at City College of San Francisco), who were caught off guard and squelched the plan until they could discuss it."

Labels: academic planning, financial crisis, naming, resource and budget planning

"So we sit around and play what if and then make a plan for it? I have thousands of more urgent things to take care of. Thanks anyway."

Labels: crisis, crisis planning, disaster, emergency, risk management

"There is little doubt that an increasing number of colleges will close in the next few years, and there seem to be few resources that might help guide those considering closure."

Labels: financial crisis, resource and budget planning, transformation

"Not everyone agrees that rooftop wind turbines are attractive additions to buildings. But Washington University in St. Louis is putting seven turbines on top of a renovated building in a historic district and making them an architectural feature by illuminating them at night"

Labels: architecture, campus heritage, facilities planning, rehabilitation, sustainability

Labels: balanced scorecard, planning models, strategic planning

"The other thing that's important to realize is that the reason even the 'marginal improvement' question is being asked at all is because a relatively few folks, working through organizations like AIA, NACUBO, SCUP, and ACPA . . . have been asking questions which conventional thinking has a hard time answering."

Labels: capital budget, capital planning, facilities planning, operating budget, resource and budget planning

"The [Act] authorizes seventy new programs, most of which will likely never receive funding. It also creates a considerable amount of new reporting and federal regulatory requirements, including those for peer-to-peer file sharing, textbooks, and tuition and fees . . . complying with the sheer volume of the new requirements will challenge colleges and universities for the next few years. Understanding how to implement the rules, however, will start institutions in the right direction."

Labels: federal, HEA, Higher Education Act, policy

"In the end, Meramec has found that working from the ground up demands a significant amount of cooperation and collaboration; however, it is evident that there is tremendous insight to be gained from those who are in the trenches every day."

Labels: community college, strategic planning

"When scarce resources become abundant, smart people treat them differently, exploiting them rather than conserving them. It feels wrong, but done right it can change the world."

Labels: academic planning, environmental scanning, futuring, information technology, it

Labels: computing center, construction, facilities planning, library

Labels: amherst, campus heritage, facilities planning, new england

"Community college is a bridge, but crossing that bridge is harder than one would think. "Community College Transfer Guide: What You Need to Know to Get Into a Four-Year College or University" is a guide for the community college student who is attempting to make that crossing. Success is very plausible with the right methods, and author Don Silver hopes to give readers what they need. Outlining the process step by step, "Community College Transfer Guide" is a guide that should be strongly considered for those in a community college, or even those entering a community college with intent to transfer later. "Community College Transfer Guide" is vital and highly educational."

Labels: articulation, community college, credits, transfer