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).
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.
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.
Our attention was caught by this last week when Ohio decided to offer in-state tuition to veterans from out of state enrolling at Ohio institutions using the new GI Bill. Elizabeth Redden - who, by the way, will be attending SCUP-43 in Montreal next week representing Inside Higher Ed, has put together this comprehensive piece about what some people and institutions are doing in anticipation of those GI Bill dollars:
Yet, the progress and now passage of the new GI Bill does seem to be generating an uptick of interest in, for instance, setting up one-stop student services shops for veterans, or establishing veterans centers or lounges. A bill introduced in January by Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-Tex.) and Rep. Michael Castle (R-Del.) — which, according to Hinojosa’s staff, is included in compromise legislation to renew the Higher Ed Act – would authorize a federal grant program for colleges that set up “model programs to support veteran student success.” Under the terms of the legislation, qualifying colleges would establish a Center of Excellence for Veteran Student Success, develop a veterans support team involving representatives from admissions, registration, financial aid, veterans benefits, academic advising, health, career advising, disabilities and other relevant areas, hire a full- or part-time coordinator, and monitor veteran student enrollment, persistence and completion.
This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education may require a subscription or a day pass for access. High Point University takes "customer service" to the utmost, it almost sounds like higher education provided by Disney. At first look it can see overdone, and one certainly wonders if High Point is going to concern itself with carbon emissions from the ice cream cart, but . . .
The list of frills goes on. Snack kiosks are located strategically around the campus offering free bananas, pretzels, and drinks. Gifts await students in their dorms when they return from breaks. That's on top of the gifts they receive for no reason. The university keeps track of each student's preferences (movies, candy bars, sodas, etc.) so all of them get exactly what they want.
If it sounds like too much, well, maybe it is. But it's in keeping with the president's philosophy, as summed up in the university's slogan: "At High Point, every student receives an extraordinary education in a fun environment with caring people."
Dealing with the increased mailroom activity is also costing colleges money. Pomona College — whose mailroom handled the ant farm, air-conditioner and barbecue grill — spent thousands on a system to scan bar codes, which sends students e-mail messages notifying them when they have packages in the mailroom. Pomona has also expanded its mailroom, making room for more packages.
At SUNY Binghamton, where the number of packages received increased to 57,000 last year, from 33,000 in 2002, officials invested about $25,000 in a bar code scanning system to track packages from the moment of arrival to the time students sign for them.
“We’re hoping that we’ve seen the worst of it,” said Larry Roma, associate vice president for facilities management at the university.
SUNY’s Purchase College has also invested in such a system, at a cost of $37,000. Meanwhile, Arizona State University decided it could not even handle students’ deliveries itself, and handed over mailroom operations to UPS.
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