One of the many good things about the society's annual conference is the opportunity to learn from recipients of SCUP's awards, either in formal professional development sessions or more informal settings.
The SCUP's 2011 Excellence Award recipients have been announced. Congratulations to you all.
We're taking this opportunity to once more bring out information about the 2010 recipients, via SCUP's 2010Tribute to Excellence newspaper. It is a useful resource that some may overlook, as are the web pages about the recipients.
The 2011 Tribute to Excellence newspaper will be available prior to SCUP–46.
The work that SCUP is doing in partnership with the Getty Foundation is still in progress.
In this article from Planning for Higher Education, Claire L. Turcotte, a member of the research team, writes about ten themes commonly reported back to the Getty Foundation from the 86 campuses which undertook campus heritage preservation planning initiatives.
Turcotte provides an example from among the campus reports, for each of the following themes.
Architectural style
Importance of landscape
Stewardship of the land
Adaptive Reuse
Mid-20th century buildings
Importance of additional design elements
Use of students
Development of systems used to evaluate and prioritize landscapes and buildings
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Saturday, July 23, 2011, 8:30 AM–5:00 PM • National Harbor, Maryland (near DC)
Space Needs Planning: An Integrated Approach
Presented by: Lisa M. Keith, Associate Principal, Paulien & Associates, Inc; Franklin A. Markley, Senior Associate, Paulien & Associates, Inc
These presenters offered a great workshop last year, and it was well-reviewed. Now, they're back. Below, you can watch a video interview SCUP made with them right after the completion of their workshop at SCUP-45, in 2010.
Here is the abstract for this year's workshop, and a link to the SCUP–46 workshops page:
Saturday, July 23, 2011, 8:30 AM–5:00 PM
Space Needs Planning: An Integrated Approach
Presented by: Lisa M. Keith, Associate Principal, Paulien & Associates, Inc; Franklin A. Markley, Senior Associate, Paulien & Associates, Inc
Now, more than ever, understanding space usage and integrating space planning components with an institution's academic priorities is critical for continued success. Solid planning practices must capture what is happening outside of an institution through environmental scanning, as well as through strategic and academic planning processes. Space management policies and guidelines must change and adapt as institutions focus on changing technologies, new ways of learning, interdisciplinary and collaborative relationships, and expanded service models for student success.
This workshop will examine a variety of space planning topics, such as: identifying and interpreting key processes and data sources; discussing space utilization and management issues; reviewing guidelines by space type and their relevancy; and interpreting space needs' outcomes. Examples from community colleges to research universities will be used to illustrate space planning pitfalls and practices. Attendees will be presented with multiple planning scenarios using case studies and interactive group activities.
Cost: $295 USD (includes workbook, continental breakfast, lunch, and refreshments)
Learning Outcomes:
Identify key steps and the institutional representatives that should be involved in the space planning process and how mission, vision, academic planning, and other pre-planning documents and studies should be integrated into the space planning process.
Qualify, verify, and translate institutional data into meaningful information to establish a baseline for space planning, as well as projections for future space planning.
This includes a review of the National Center for Educational Statistics' Postsecondary Education Facilities Inventory and Classification Manual (FICM) space use codes to document existing facility use and space management.
Interpret and adjust space guidelines based on modern learning environments and pedagogy, institutional mission, program mix, student services, and other strategic characteristics.
Translate the space analysis outcomes into meaningful strategies for master planning, building renovations, and new construction, as contained in a capital improvement plan.
TAGS: Space Management, Space Utilization, Space Assessment, Performance Measurement, FICM, NCES Facilities Inventory Classification Manual
This workshop is offered on July 23 near Washington, DC.
The SCUPers listed as authors of this post will be repeating their renowned pre-conference workshop this summer on Saturday, July 23, at National Harbor, Maryland, outside of Washington, DC., at SCUP–46. SCUP–46 is the Society for College and University Planning's annual, international, integrated planning conference and idea marketplace.
Please turn your volume up, as this was the first-ever such SCUP interview and our microphone was a little far from the workshop presenters. Also, this is just after they spent an entire day of heavy interaction with a room full of SCUPers in the workshop, so they're just a little tired here.
Saturday, July 23, 2011, 8:30 AM–5:00 PM Capital Projects in a Campus Environment: Organizing and Running a Successful Project Team
Presented by: Frances M Gast, Planner, University of Connecticut; Celia M Kent, Director, FAS Planning Office, Harvard University; Debi L McDonald, Associate Principal, Cannon Design
What can campus leaders and their design and construction partners do to facilitate successful capital projects, and avoid costly and consequential missteps? Complex facility projects are difficult undertakings and require that activities be orchestrated among project team members. The natural momentum of construction projects can fuel fundraising, engage campus constituencies, and inspire great design. We will explore and practice team planning and organizational skills to manage through the inevitable interruptions and setbacks that can sabotage a successful realization of the project’s vision. The strategies that carry us through are less technical than organizational and team-focused: setting realistic priorities; creating a high-functioning project team; resolving conflicts; challenging assumptions; and asking questions. This workshop will enable participants to hone their skills and take home practical tools and strategies to help project teams excel.
Cost: $295 USD (includes workbook, continental breakfast, lunch, and refreshments)
Learning Outcomes:
Identify problems likely to occur in the early stages of a project, such as collective over-optimism, programming for yesterday, and conflicting goals and agendas.
Use a “tool-kit” of diagnostic, analytic, team-building, and organizational skills to educate others and to model behaviors that can improve project success.
Consider the value of being a reflective practitioner and learning from what goes wrong.
List the organizational leadership roles that support better planning, design, and construction outcomes.
posted by Frances M Gast, Planner, University of Connecticut; Celia M Kent, Director, FAS Planning Office, Harvard University; Debi L McDonald, Associate Principal, Cannon Design at 13:23:28
Less than one month ago, the deadline passed for nominations for the 2011 SCUP Awards program. The jury is hard at work reviewing and learning, and noting what is learned to share with SCUP members later in the year.
Last year's jury shared its Observations and Themes in the October 2010 issue of Planning for Higher Education. That entire issue of Planning is available to you by clicking on the interactive PDF image, above. We've left it open to last year's jury's Observations and Themes.
Make No Isolated Plans: Integrated Planning for Quality
That's the theme for SCUP's forty-seventh annual, international conference and idea marketplace in Chicago, July 7–11, 2012. Plan to be there for higher education's premier planning event.
Here are three panoramic photos of the planning committee members and support staff who were present at this meeting, and who contributed to the theme. You may click on each image to see a larger version.
Left to right: David Cox, Plenary and Invited Speakers Chair, University of Memphis; Tom Griggs, Workshops Chair, Consultant (Houston, TX); Sadie Wutka, SCUP staff; Kathy Benton, SCUP Staff; Anne Foley, Local Hosts Chair, Columbia College Chicago; standing is Nick Santilli, conference committee chair, John Carroll University; Betty Cobb, SCUP Staff
Left to right: Jake Julia, Institutional Direction Planning Academy Convener, Northwestern University; Rick Straka, Resource and Budget Planning Academy, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Michael McGoff, Academic Planning Committee Convener, State University of New York at Binghamton; Karen Verhey, SCUP Staff; Mary Jo Olenick, Facilities Planning Academy, The S/L/A/M Collaborative; David Cox, Plenary and Invited Speakers Chair, University of Memphis; Tom Griggs, Workshops Chair, Consultant (Houston, TX)
Left to right:Birget Swanson, SCUP Staff; Michael Hites, Chair, Professional Development Committee, University of Illinois; Jolene Knapp, SCUP Staff; Phyllis Grummon, SCUP Staff; Tom Longin, SCUP President-Elect, Washington, DC.; Jake Julia, Institutional Direction Planning Academy Convener, Northwestern University
The plan was a catalyst for the establishment of an integrated planning process at VIU that will coordinate planning for strategic, academic, research, and ancillary services, and fiscal, operational, social, and physical activities for maximum focus and performance of future developments. The plan supports the academic plan by addressing required infrastructure and facilities deficiencies, enhancing research and learning capacity, and accommodating new programs and technologies.
The above quote is from the 2010 SCUP Awards Jurors, 2010 SCUP Award for Institutional Innovation and Integration. Below, a SCUP concurrent session executive summary:
What? Isn't it SCUP–46 that's coming in July, near Washington, DC?
Yep. But we've brought out three of the concurrent sessions from last year to remind you, once again, of the great quality of concurrent sessions at SCUP's annual conference that is higher education's premier planning event. This year it's "Integrated Solutions: How & Now." Click on the banner, above, for more. Register now!
Paul E. Lingenfelter, President, State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO), "The Knowledge Economy Has Arrived: Now What Do We Do?"
George Pernsteiner, Chancellor, Oregon University System, "Are We Wasting a Percfectly Good Crisis?"
Peter Smith, Senior Vice President of Academic Strategies and Development, Kaplan Higher Education, "The New Ecology of Learning in the 21st Century"
Enjoy these extracted SCUP-45 executive summaries using our interactive PDF functionality, below. Now iPad compatible!
Fast Company magazine has a section devoted to the intersection of design and business. In it, Jack L. Robbins writes about Active Design. Here is, also, the Wikipedia article on Active Living by Design.
Given the size of the nation's obesity problem, intentionally integrating active design elements into every campus facilities and landscape planning process - especially in areas of student services, housing, pedestrian circulation, and so forth - seems a no-brainer. We've seen campuses to things that align with this philosophy, although unintentionally, or for other reasons. If you know of campus planning that has incorporated this in an integrated fashion, please share information about it in the comments, below, or in SCUP's LinkedIn group. Thanks.
Here's more from the Fact Company article:
Environments that are unwalkable are boring, feel vast and scaleless, and present blank unvaried views. Contrast a vast parking lot with a lively café-lined street and it’s clear what makes an environment walkable.
Variety and stimulation is especially important for the young digerati who have grown up in a wired world that brings a universe of entertainment and social interaction to them through a screen and a keyboard.
To motivate the under-25 crowd to use their legs—instead of their thumbs—to explore the world, the real world must compete with the digital one in terms of stimulation. Dense, multi-use urban environments with a variety of offerings can provide the stimulating surroundings that encourage walking and real-life social interaction.
Consider visiting and contributing to SCUP's LinkedIn discussion about if and how college and university campuses may be inventorying and valuing their trees, and how integrated that is to master planning and overall planning work. We're looking for people to share current best practices.
It turns out that a campus tree has more value, and more kinds of value, than most people would think. A 2006 study of the value of New York City's tree inventory is one of a number of such studies, reflecting a growing number of institutional entities which consider trees to have both capital and operational value. If your campus is planning in an integrated way, in fact, it makes good sense to understand your tree inventory and its value to the institution.
The article linked-to here, mentions i-Tree, a free software suite that lets people managing tree inventories to do so while taking many important variables into account.
If you have an interest in campus heritage landscapes, you should visit SCUP's Campus Heritage Planning Network where, among other resources, there are several reports on campus-wide heritage landscape planning.
Trees provide solar reflection for energy savings, clean air pollutants, and intercept water to reduce stress on storm water runoff. New York figured that measuring the value of its 600,000 trees in this way results in a savings for the city of nearly $120 per tree, annually. Figure in aesthetics and things like property value, public health (visible trees reduce the length of hospital stays), stress, and so forth, and another $90 per tree per year in value brings the total to $210 per tree.
In New York City, that is a total of $122M in benefits from a department of the city that spends less than $15M on trees and forestry staff, resulting in an annual net positive value to the city of more than $100M, from urban trees.
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