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Monday, August, 06, 2012

Moving From Dining Centers to Community Centers—Helping Students Build Social Integration

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This slide set from the recent conference of the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International (ACUHO-I) is worth a look. (If this link does not take you right to the session, just select “guest” at the login prompt and filter for a portion of the title.)

Longitudinal studies of the ACUHO-I/EBI Resident Assessment indicate that satisfaction with personal space and dining services has improved while personal interaction has declined. Since personal interaction is the top predictor of a student's perception of the effectiveness of the residence hall and an important component to student development, it is vital that programs better understand and work to improve personal interaction. We propose that getting creative in the use of the dining facility could promote student interaction.

Research [was] presented showing the trend of declining personal interactions. Linking research to practice, representatives from a large dining program will discuss how they turned their dining centers into community centers where students come together for events, movies, and special programming. They also have "random acts of food" popping up around halls and events centered on interaction. Come to this program to learn about national trends, learn from a very creative dining operation how they?re supporting student interactions, and brainstorm other ways that dining facilities can be used to help promote student interaction.

Note that this fall's SCUP Pubs Campus-Space MOJO will visit student housing as a topic from October 27–November 7. ACUHO-I will be joining us. Why don’t you?

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Saturday, September, 18, 2010

Sustainable Residence Hall Renovation: Teach Your Old Dog New Tricks

Learn from experts in four realms, who provided a comprehensive and pragmatic look at planning for sustainable renovation of residence halls originally built in the 50s and 60s. The webcast was transmitted live on Thursday, September 16, 2010. Information about the presenters can be found below the video or here.

We captured brief video, below, from the live stream. High-quality video of the entire webcast can be purchased from SCUP here. The webcast was a co-production of the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International (ACUHO-I) and the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP). 

Orange Page Moderator

Susan J.D. Gott
University Planner
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Sue Gott has served as the University of Michigan’s (UM) university planner since September 2002. As the university planner, she is responsible for guiding master planning and development of the UM campuses. She oversees planning of capital projects including buildings, parking structures, utilities, roads, open spaces, and plazas. Gott also ensures an integrated and coordinated approach to physical planning and design on campus in respect to site planning and site design. She serves as an important link with the community to coordinate UM projects with community planning initiatives. Prior to her current position, she was an adjunct professor with UM’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where she instructed graduate studies in the fundamentals of the planning practice. She was also a senior planner at the consulting firm JJR Inc., where she practiced campus planning, transportation and environmental planning and urban design. She is highly regarded for her focus on integrated planning, environmental stewardship, advocacy for public art and efforts to promote historic preservation.


Orange Page Presenters

Paul J. Wuennenberg
Principal
Mackey Mitchell Associates

Paul J. Wuennenberg, AIA, ASAI, LEED AP, joined Mackey Mitchell Architects in 1989 and became a firm principal in 1998. He is recognized throughout the country as an expert on facilities for student residential life. He has been a frequent speaker at ACUHO-I and has produced in-depth books on student housing. Wuennenberg has developed concepts for student housing of the future, and his designs have won two People’s Choice awards in ACUHO’s 21st Century Project competition. He recently was invited to participate in the Chief Housing Officers Bootcamp, where he was the only architect on the panel. Wuennenberg holds a bachelor of architecture from University of Kansas.


Andrea Trinklein
Executive Director, Residence Life & Housing
Emory University

Andrea Trinklein, PhD, LEED AP, is the executive director of residence life and housing at Emory University. Previously, she was the director of housing at Georgia State University. She has over 27 years of professional housing experience at Western Illinois University, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Nebraska Wesleyan University. Trinklein is a frequent national and international presenter. She has served as chair of Commission III - Housing and Residential Life for the American College Personnel Association (ACPA), and in leadership roles with The Association of College and University Housing Officers-International (ACUHO-I). She has been involved in numerous renovation and construction projects throughout her career. At Emory, she played an integral role in the program design and construction of four residence halls, which achieved LEED Silver or Gold certification. Trinklein is a senior faculty member for Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University. She received her PhD in administration, curriculum, and instruction with a higher education emphasis from the University of Nebraska.


Nadia Zhiri
Principal, Vice President
Treanor Architects

Nadia Zhiri, AIA, LEED AP, is a principal for Treanor Architects’ student life design studio, and believes in architecture’s ability to support and enhance the learning environment. Zhiri holds degrees in both environmental design and architecture from the University of Kansas, and has dedicated her career to the design of healthy student life facilities. She has spent the last year writing articles and speaking to groups about how to transform dated residence halls into high-performance buildings that better support a school’s mission. Zhiri's designs have won such honors as the People’s Choice Award for Product Showcase at ACUHO-I’s 21st Century Project, and College Planning & Management’s 2009 Grand Prize for Education Design Showcase.

 

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Sunday, June, 27, 2010

ACUHO-I Economic Impact Survey

 Last month ACUHO-I (the Association of College and University Housing Officers - International) released the results of a survey of its members regarding the economic impact the recession and funding changes have had on housing operations and planning. By the large the indicators look better than a year ago, but not as good as two years ago. This is a well-done survey and the results will be useful and interesting to planner, both for planning purposes and for their own benchmarking.

The questions respondents answered related to travel freezes, hiring freezes, salary increases, making departmental funds available to other entities, construction and renovation, planned capital purchases, and demand for on-campus housing within the next three years.

Of particular interest to physical planners, the number of respondents who anticipated restrictions on planned capital purchases, decreased in the past two years from 55% to 31% in this latest survey.

Read the executive summary of the ACUHO-I Economic Impact survey.

 

 

 

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