You may not have yet read this Planning for Higher Education article from October 2010, so we've posted it here for you, and added this link to an experimental SCUP beta semantic analysis of the article, by Michael Rudden of DiMella Schaffer. Scroll down past the image to see a few bullets from the analysis.

Enjoy! And please share with campus colleagues. They don't often get to see what's in SCUP's journal. Thanks. 

P.S. Note this related SCUP workshop on July 23, near Washington, DC., Capital Projects in a Campus Environment: Organizing and Running a Successful Project Team.

• A review of ongoing campus facilities planning projects, coupled with a review of more than 30 recent campus master planning requests for proposals and the relevant literature, indicates that colleges and universities are finding innovative ways to do more with less in response to this challenging economic environment.
• By integrating their facilities planning with current strategic, academic, and financial plans-a key tenet of the Society for College and University Planning's publication A Guide to Planning for Change (Norris and Poulton 2008)-these institutions are better positioned to proactively evaluate and respond to economic challenges and turn them into opportunities.
• Integrating education technology planning with academic, financial, and facilities planning enables colleges and universities to explore and evaluate the potential impact of alternative pedagogical and technological approaches to delivering educational content.
• These distressed properties are being acquired by nearby institutions that plan to convert them (in some cases in partnership with developers) into, respectively, a hub for a new research venture, a technology education center, continuing education classrooms, a branch-campus expansion, an administrative office building, and short-term "swing space" with parking during campus renovation.
• These strategies include deferring or downsizing planned construction projects, using existing instructional space more intensively, reducing facilities operating costs by closing facilities, improving campus sustainability, and reducing information technology (IT) expenses.